Minecraft: Java Edition cover art

Minecraft

2011 · Mojang Studios · ~40h to finish

Nothing in it is hard to do; almost everything in it is hard to find out that you can do.

survivalsandboxPCPlayStation 5Xbox SeriesNintendo SwitchSteam DeckMobile
GlobalUNRATED
Baseline difficulty4.1MODERATE

You will lose sometimes. You will not mind.

The fingerprint

12.55.07.510
Grind
5.2
Obscurity
4.6
Strategy
4.5
Learning Curve
3.6
Punishment
2.8
Puzzle
2.5
Reaction
1.7
Execution
1.5
PUBLISHEDHARDEST DEMAND FIRST
  • Obscurity drops 0.9 points — you handle this better than most.
  • Punishment drops 0.7 points — you handle this better than most.
  • Assist options shave roughly 2.9 points off, if you use them.

These are generic numbers. Calibrate and this whole page re-scores around you.

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Screenshots

IGDB

Where it bites

SPOILER-SAFE BY DEFAULT
START25%HALFWAY75%CREDITS
  1. 45% · ~15hObscurity

    the trip to the other dimension, which requires a recipe nothing tells you

    7
  2. 90% · ~35hStrategy

    the final boss, which is mostly a scavenger hunt with a fight attached

    5

Assists & accessibility

0/7 SOURCED

CHALLENGE RELIEF

  • Difficulty modes [unsourced]Peaceful removes hostile mobs and hunger damage entirely.
  • Save anywhere [unsourced]

MOTOR & INPUT

  • Fully remappable controls [unsourced]

HEARING

  • Visualised audio cues [unsourced]Subtitles caption every sound with a direction arrow — genuinely useful for everyone.
  • Full subtitles [unsourced]

COMFORT & SAFETY

  • Reduced motion / camera shake [unsourced]View bobbing and FOV effects can be switched off.

GUIDANCE

  • Replayable tutorials & glossary [unsourced]The recipe book unlocks and stores every craft you can currently make.

Claims marked unsourced have not been checked against a published accessibility review. Nothing here is inferred from genre — where we do not know, we say nothing.

What it is

An open-ended survival sandbox of destructible blocks, with crafting, exploration, redstone circuitry and an optional final boss at the end of a chain of discoveries.

Where to go from here

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