Minecraft Realms

Minecraft
Developer(s)	Mojang
Publisher(s)	Mojang (PC, mobile, Wii U, Nintendo Switch) Microsoft Studios (X360, XONE, Windows Phone, Windows 10 Edition) Sony Computer Entertainment (PS3, PS4, PSV)
Designer(s)	Markus Persson Jens Bergensten
Artist(s)	Markus Toivonen
Composer(s)	Daniel Rosenfeld
Platform(s)	Microsoft Windows Mac OS X Linux Android iOS Windows Phone Xbox 360 Xbox One PlayStation 3 PlayStation 4 PlayStation Vita Raspberry Pi Universal Windows Platform Wii U Nintendo Switch New Nintendo 3DS Apple TV Amazon Fire TV Gear VR Oculus Rift
Release	18 November 2011 Microsoft Windows, macOS, Linux WW: 18 November 2011 Android WW: 7 October 2011 iOS WW: 17 November 2011 Xbox 360 WW: 9 May 2012 Raspberry Pi WW: 11 February 2013 PlayStation 3 NA: 17 December 2013 EU: 18 December 2013 PlayStation 4 WW: 4 September 2014 Xbox One WW: 5 September 2014 PlayStation Vita NA: 14 October 2014 EU: 15 October 2014 Windows Phone WW: 10 December 2014 Windows 10 Edition WW: 29 July 2015 Wii U WW: 17 December 2015 Apple TV, Amazon Fire TV WW: 19 December 2016 Nintendo Switch NA: 11 May 2017 PAL: 12 May 2017 New Nintendo 3DS WW: 13 September 2017
Genre(s)	Sandbox, survival
Mode(s)	Single-player, multiplayer

Aggregate score
Aggregator	Score
Metacritic	(PC) 93/100 (PS4) 89/100 (XONE) 88/100 (PS3) 86/100 (NS) 86/100 (PSV) 84/100 (X360) 82/100 (WU) 75/100 (N3DS) 62/100 (PE) 53/100
Review scores
Publication	Score
1UP.com	A+ (PC)
Edge	9/10 (PC)
Eurogamer	10/10 (PC) 9/10 (Xbox 360)
Game Informer	9.25/10 (PC) 8.75/10 (Xbox 360)
GameSpot	8.5/10 (PC) 7.0/10 (Xbox 360)
GameSpy	(PC)
IGN	9.0/10 (PC) 7.5/10 (mobile) 8.5/10 (Xbox 360) 9.5/10 (PS3) 9.7/10 (PS4) 9.7/10 (Xbox One) 9.5/10 (PSV)
PC Gamer (US)	96/100

Minecraft is a sandbox video game created and designed by Swedish game designer Markus "Notch" Persson, and later fully developed and published by Mojang. The creative and building aspects of Minecraft enable players to build constructions out of textured cubes in a 3D procedurally generated world. Other activities in the game include exploration, resource gathering, crafting, and combat. Multiple gameplay modes are available, including a survival mode where the player must acquire resources to build the world and maintain health, a creative mode where players have unlimited resources to build with and the ability to fly, an adventure mode where players can play custom maps created by other players, and a spectator mode where players can freely move throughout a world without being affected by gravity or collisions. The PC version of the game is noted for its modding scene, where a dedicated community creates new gameplay mechanics, items, and assets for the game.

Minecraft has received praise from critics, and won numerous awards and accolades. Social media, parodies, adaptations, merchandise and the MineCon convention played large roles in popularising the game. It has been used in education environments, especially in the realm of computing systems, as virtual computers and hardware devices have been built in it. As of February 2017^[update], over 121 million copies have been sold across all platforms, making it the second best-selling video game of all time, behind only the various releases of Tetris. In September 2014, Microsoft announced a deal to buy Mojang and the Minecraft intellectual property for US$2.5 billion, with the acquisition completed two months later. Other games in the franchise, such as Minecraft: Story Mode, have since been released.