Minecraft
It's from 2016, when you were 10.
- Developer
- Mojang Studios
- Creator
- Markus "Notch" Persson
- Genre
- Sandbox / survival
- Full release
- 2011
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About
As of 2026, it's 10 years old.
Minecraft launched in 2011 with no instructions, no goal, blocky graphics that looked a decade out of date, and went on to become the best-selling video game of all time. It handed players an infinite world made of cubes and said 'do whatever you want,' and they built castles, computers, and functioning scale models of entire fictional kingdoms.
It's equally a creative sandbox, a survival game, and an accidental educational tool used in actual classrooms, beloved across generations who can't agree on anything except that the green exploding creeper is the enemy.
Limitless, blocky, and quietly the biggest game ever made, Minecraft is proof that the most powerful feature a game can have is 'do literally anything.'
