
This is a power we rarely see in games, and the freedom it offers is, at first, daunting.In Survival mode, each block must be chipped at and collected by hand from an open world. It could be a mountainside home, a brick house, a sky bridge, or any other creation you can envision. Piece by piece you’ll rearrange and refine the pristine, primordial world into whatever you want. What makes them great is how they enable creativity. The blocks are colorful, distinct, and memorable thanks to simple and charming textures. Minecraft’s randomly generated worlds are composed of big blocky cubes of dirt, stone, sand, and dozens of other materials. It’s one of gaming’s most expressive creative outlets. That sense of creative progression, coupled with the inherent danger of mining underground caverns full of monsters, makes Minecraft exciting, rewarding, and tense. Cobbling together a first home out of dirt and stone feels great building a castle with a moat, a dining hall, and a working underground rail system feels even greater.

Though it may look primitive at a glance, your options in Minecraft are limited only by your imagination.
