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- Developer
- Mojang Studios
- , Microsoft(since 2014)
- Publisher
- Xbox Game Studios
1
Sources- 1.“YES, WE'RE BEING BOUGHT BY MICROSOFT”mojang.com/2014/09/yes-were-being-bought-by-microsoftRetrieved 2017-08-03
- , Mojang Studios
- , Sony Interactive Entertainment
- Xbox Game Studios
- Released
- November 18, 2011
- , May 17, 2009
- Platforms
- Microsoft Windows
- , PlayStation Vita(October 14, 2014)
- , Xbox 360(May 9, 2012)
- +24 more
- Genre
- survival game
- , action-adventure game
- , sandbox game
- +2 more
- Software engine
Overview
All data
510 statements · 30% with external sources · numbers in brackets are citations
- Port
- 25,565 protocol: Transmission Control Protocol
- USK rating
- USK 6(since 2014) platforms: PlayStation 3 · rating certificate id: 37098/14
- Designed by
- Markus Persson(2009–2014)
- Jens Bergensten(since 2011)
- ESRB rating
- Everyone 10+ content descriptor: Fantasy Violence · platforms: PlayStation 4 · interactive elements: Online Interactions Not Rated by the ESRB
1
- Everyone 10+ content descriptor: Fantasy Violence · platforms: PlayStation 4 · interactive elements: Online Interactions Not Rated by the ESRB
- Website
- minecraft.net language: multiple languages · statement is subject of: minecraft.net
- Title
- Minecraft reason for preferred rank: currently valid value
1
Sources- 1.“Minecraft - Allpedia”allpedia.miraheze.org/wiki/MinecraftRetrieved 2023-11-02
- Cave Game(until 2009)
- Minecraft reason for preferred rank: currently valid value
- Influenced by
- Dwarf Fortress
1
Sources- 1.“Blockbuster - The Making of Minecraft”pcgamer.com/the-making-of-minecraft/2/Retrieved 2020-08-02
- Infiniminer
1
Sources- 1.“Blockbuster - The Making of Minecraft”pcgamer.com/the-making-of-minecraft/2/Retrieved 2020-08-02
- Dwarf Fortress
- Composer
- C418
- Lena Raine
1
Sources- 1.“Minecraft's Nether Update Features Music From Celeste Composer”gamespot.com/articles/minecrafts-nether-update-features-music-from-celes/1100-6475797/Retrieved 2020-08-02
- Gareth Coker
- Kumi Tanioka
- Aaron Cherof
1
Sources- 1.“Minecraft Credits | Minecraft”minecraft.net/en-us/creditsRetrieved 2024-08-09
- Amos Roddy
- Awards
- Golden Joystick Awards − Still Playing Award - PC and Console(November 20, 2025) statement is subject of: Golden Joystick Awards 2025
1
Sources- 1.“Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is going to win all the awards”polygon.com/golden-joystick-awards-winners-2025-clair-obscur-goty/Retrieved 2025-11-21
- Independent Games Festival Award - Seumas McNally Grand Prize(2011) follows: Monaco: What's Yours Is Mine · followed by: Fez
- Independent Games Festival Audience Award(2011)
- Golden Joystick Awards − Still Playing Award - PC and Console(November 20, 2025) statement is subject of: Golden Joystick Awards 2025
- Copyright holder
- Mojang Studios
1
Sources- 1.Stated in Museum of Modern Art online collectionRetrieved 2019-11-02
- Mojang Studios
- Distributor
- Nintendo eShop
- PlayStation Store
- Microsoft Store
- Google Play platforms: Android
- App Store platforms: iOS
- Latest version
- 26.1 version type: stable version · released: March 24, 2026
- 1.7.5 released: February 26, 2014
- 1.7.9 released: April 14, 2014
- 1.8 released: September 2, 2014
- 1.8.1-pre2 released: October 16, 2014 · version type: beta version
- 1.8.1 released: November 24, 2014 · version type: stable version
- 1.8.2-pre1 released: December 18, 2014 · version type: beta version
- 1.8.3 released: February 20, 2015 · version type: stable version
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- 1.8.4 released: April 17, 2015 · version type: stable version
- 1.8.7 released: June 5, 2015 · version type: stable version
- 1.8.8 released: July 28, 2015 · version type: stable version
- 0.13.0 released: November 3, 2015 · version type: beta version · platforms: Android
- 1.10 operating system: Android · released: June 8, 2016
- 1.13 released: July 18, 2018 · version type: stable version · title: Update Aquatic is out on Java!
1
Sources- 1.“Update Aquatic is out on Java!”minecraft.net/en-us/article/update-aquatic-out-java
- 1.14.1 released: March 21, 2019
1
Sources- 1.“Update Aquatic is out on Java!”minecraft.net/en-us/article/update-aquatic-out-javaRetrieved 2018-07-23
- 1.14 released: April 22, 2019 · version type: stable version · title: Village & Pillage out today on Java
1
Sources- 1.“Village & Pillage out today on Java”minecraft.net/en-us/article/village---pillage-out-java-
- 1.14.2 released: May 27, 2019 · version type: stable version
1
Sources- 1.“Minecraft Java Edition 1.14.2”minecraft.net/en-us/article/minecraft-java-edition-1-14-2
- 1.14.3 released: June 24, 2019 · version type: stable version
1
Sources- 1.“Minecraft Java Edition 1.14.3”minecraft.net/en-us/article/minecraft-java-edition-1-14-3
- 1.14.4 released: July 19, 2019 · version type: stable version
1
Sources- 1.“Minecraft Java Edition 1.14.4”minecraft.net/en-us/article/minecraft-java-1-14-4-released
- 1.15 released: December 10, 2019 · version type: stable version · title: Buzzy Bees Out Now In Java
1
Sources- 1.“Buzzy Bees Out Now In Java”minecraft.net/en-us/article/buzzy-bees-out-now-in-java/
- 1.15.2 version type: stable version · released: January 21, 2020
1
Sources- 1.“Minecraft Java Editio 1.15.2”minecraft.net/en-us/article/minecraft-java-edition-1-15-2
- 1.16 released: June 23, 2020
1
Sources- 1.“Nether Update Out Now In Java”minecraft.net/en-us/article/nether-update-java
- 1.16.1 version type: stable version · released: June 24, 2020
1
Sources- 1.“Minecraft Java 1.16.1 Released”minecraft.net/nl-nl/article/minecraft-java-edition-1-16-1
- 1.16.2 version type: stable version · released: August 10, 2020
- 1.16.3 version type: stable version · released: September 10, 2020
- 1.16.4 version type: stable version · released: November 2, 2020
- 1.16.5 version type: stable version · released: January 15, 2021
- 1.17 version type: stable version · released: June 8, 2021
1
Sources- 1.“CAVES & CLIFFS: PART I OUT TODAY ON JAVA”minecraft.net/en-us/article/caves---cliffs--part-i-out-today-java
- 1.18.1 version type: stable version · released: December 10, 2021
1
Sources- 1.“Important Message: Security vulnerability in Java Edition”minecraft.net/en-us/article/important-message--security-vulnerability-java-editionRetrieved 2022-01-30
- 1.18.2 version type: stable version · released: February 28, 2022
- 1.18.32 version type: bug-fix release · released: May 5, 2022
1
Sources- 1.Stated in Windows Centralwindowscentral.com/minecraft-bedrock-edition-1-18-30-patch-update-release#update2Retrieved 2022-05-23
- 1.19 version type: stable version · released: June 7, 2022
- 1.19.2 version type: bug-fix release · released: August 5, 2022
- 1.19.3 version type: stable version · released: December 7, 2022
- 1.19.4 version type: stable version · released: March 14, 2023
- 1.20 version type: stable version · released: June 7, 2023
- 1.20.1 released: June 12, 2023
- 1.20.2 released: September 21, 2023
- 1.20.3 version type: unstable version · released: December 5, 2023
2
Sources- 1.minecraft.net/en-us/article/minecraft-snapshot-23w40aRetrieved 2023-10-14
- 2.minecraft.wiki/w/Java_Edition_1.20.3
- 1.20.4 version type: bug-fix release · described at url: minecraft.net · released: December 7, 2023
1
Sources- 1.minecraft.net/en-us/article/minecraft-java-edition-1-20-4Retrieved 2024-06-13
- 1.20.5 version type: stable version · released: April 23, 2024
- 1.20.6 version type: bug-fix release · described at url: minecraft.wiki · released: April 29, 2024
- 1.21 version type: stable version · released: June 13, 2024
- 1.21.1 version type: bug-fix release · released: August 8, 2024
- 1.21.2 version type: unstable version · released: October 22, 2024
- 1.21.3 version type: bug-fix release · released: October 23, 2024
- 1.21.4 version type: stable version · released: December 3, 2024
- 1.21.4-rc3 version type: release candidate version · released: November 29, 2024
- 1.21.5 version type: stable version · released: March 25, 2025
- 1.21.6 version type: stable version · released: June 17, 2025
- 1.21.7
- 1.21.8
- 1.21.9
- 1.21.10
- 1.21.11 version type: stable version · released: December 9, 2025
- Social media followers
- 6,968,796(February 5, 2023) x (twitter) numeric user id: 64565898 · reason for preferred rank: most recent value for determination method
- 6,199,491(February 21, 2022) x (twitter) numeric user id: 64565898
- 4,297,393(January 7, 2021) x (twitter) numeric user id: 64565898
- 2,969,865(April 17, 2020) x (twitter) numeric user id: 64565898
- Review score
- 90/100(April 16, 2021) review score by: OpenCritic · number of reviews/ratings: 44 critic review
1
- 84%(April 16, 2021) review score by: OpenCritic · number of reviews/ratings: 44 critic review
1
- 86/100 review score by: Kritikanstvo · number of reviews/ratings: 11 critic review
1
- 85/100 review score by: CriticDB · number of reviews/ratings: 8 critic review · platforms: Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4
1
Sources- 1.Stated in CriticDBcriticdb.com/games/minecraft--1Retrieved 2026-01-12
- 90/100(April 16, 2021) review score by: OpenCritic · number of reviews/ratings: 44 critic review
- Nominations
- Golden Joystick Awards − Still Playing Award - PC and Console(September 25, 2026) statement is subject of: Golden Joystick Awards 2026
1
Sources- 1.“007: First Light, Big Walk, and Resident Evil: Requiem lead the Golden Joystick Awards nominations”gamesradar.com/games/007-first-light-big-walk-and-resident-evil-requiem-lead-the-golden-joystick-awards-nominations/Retrieved 2026-09-29
- Golden Joystick Awards − Still Playing Award - PC and Console(October 3, 2025) statement is subject of: Golden Joystick Awards 2025
1
Sources- 1.“Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 leads the Golden Joystick Award 2025 charge for most nominations, nudging out Death Stranding 2, Ghost of Yotei, and Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2”gamesradar.com/games/events-conferences/clair-obscur-expedition-33-leads-the-golden-joystick-award-2025-charge-for-most-nominations-nudging-out-death-stranding-2-ghost-of-yotei-and-kingdom-come-deliverance-2/Retrieved 2025-11-17
- Golden Joystick Awards − Ultimate Game of All Time(2021) statement is subject of: Golden Joystick Awards 2021
1
Sources- 1.“Vote now for the Golden Joystick Awards' ultimate game and hardware of all time”pcgamer.com/uk/vote-now-for-the-golden-joystick-awards-ultimate-game-and-hardware-of-all-timeRetrieved 2021-11-24
- British Academy Games Award for GAME Award(February 18, 2012) statement is subject of: 8th British Academy Video Games Awards
1
Sources- 1.“GAME Unveils BAFTA GAME Audience Award Shortlist”bafta.org/media-centre/press-releases/game-unveils-bafta-game-audience-award-shortlist/Retrieved 2025-07-07
- Golden Joystick Awards − Still Playing Award - PC and Console(September 25, 2026) statement is subject of: Golden Joystick Awards 2026
- Units sold
- 350M(April 2025)
1
Sources- 1.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/best-selling-video-gameRetrieved 2025-11-02
- 300M(October 16, 2023) sourcing circumstances: greater than · reason for preferred rank: most recent value for determination method
1
Sources- 1.“Продажи Minecraft перевалили за 300 млн копий — Игромания”igromania.ru/news/131592/prodazhi-minecraft-perevalili-za-300-mln-kopijRetrieved 2023-10-17
- 238M(May 3, 2021)
1
Sources- 1.“Minecraft Reached 140 Million Monthly Users And Generated Over $350 Million To Date”gamespot.com/articles/minecraft-reached-140-million-monthly-users-and-generated-over-350-million-to-date/1100-6490962Retrieved 2023-10-17
- 350M(April 2025)
- Opposite of
- Minecraft clone criterion used: authenticity
- Hashtag
- minecraft
- mc
- Maximum number of players
- none cause: infinity
- Language
- multiple languages quantity: 137
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On other databases
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