What other IPs can boast a cultural cache that rivals Mario, who has been beloved since the ’80s?
All that time in Minecraft and he’s barely made it five feet from spawn.
That’s obviously not the case.
You’ve gotMinecraft: Story Mode, the Telltale Games adventure that ran for two seasons.
You’ve gotMinecraft Dungeons, the pretty solid Diablo-like RPG.
You’ve gotMinecraft Legends, the 2023 real-time strategy game.
Mojang evencited COVID as the primary reason it was shut down in 2021.
Well, all of those games are solidly in spin-off territory.
They borrow the aesthetics and lore of Minecraft but place it in a world with entirely different mechanics.
Minecraft is, well, about mining and crafting.
And none are attempting to sequel-ize Minecraft, either.
Single-player games with fixed endpoints need sequels.
Eh, not so much.
It took Grand Theft Auto seven mainline entries to reach the sales heights 5 achieved.
Epic hasn’t followed Fortnite up at all (unless you count that Unreal Engine 5 Matrix demo).
League of Legends, like Minecraft, has spin-offs but no sequels.
This is the world we’re living in, and Minecraft helped build it.
Now, let’ssee how long the movie lasts without a sequel.
