Minecraft creator Markus ‘Notch’ Persson has introduced that he desires to make one other sport, and it seems prefer it’ll be a religious sequel to the most important sandbox sport on the earth. Persson requested his on-line followers what kind of undertaking they’d wish to see subsequent from him, and it already seems like a possible ‘Minecraft 2,’ which might probably share most of the unique sport’s concepts, is what followers need probably the most. Persson even says this hypothetical successor would keep away from Microsoft’s “shitification” of the unique.
On Wednesday January 1, 2025, Persson requested his 3.6 million Twitter/X followers what his subsequent sport needs to be. He describes the primary selection as a “traditional roguelike” combined with a “tile-based first-person dungeon crawler” within the vein of NetHack and Eye of the Beholder. This sport additionally “feels like Stardew Valley, but [with] more diagonal door kicking.” As for the second possibility, Persson describes it as a “spiritual successor thing to Minecraft,” earlier than placing each tasks in a ballot.
As of publication, ‘Minecraft 2’ is profitable out with 77.9% of the vote, with over 235,000 folks voting for the sandbox sport successor to this point. In a prolonged response to somebody out of the loop on his preliminary announcement, Persson says he “basically announced Minecraft 2,” including that he’s “loving working on games again.”
“I don’t super duper care exactly which game I make first (or even if I make more), but I do know I’m making one, so I figured I’d absolutely be willing to give it an honest shot in the form of a spiritual successor to Minecraft and put up a poll about it.”
As for what this potential religious Minecraft sequel might seem like, Persson provides that it gained’t “sneakily infringe on the incredible work the Mojang team is doing and that Microsoft is successfully doing the Microsoft shitification about.”
Persson instantly follows up his remark about Microsoft’s dealing with of Minecraft with a extra optimistic assertion, so it’s unclear precisely what a part of its dealing with of the unique Minecraft he’s not on board with.
“And I respect them for doing that. It’s their job. And they, from what I understand, let the studio do things their way, which seems very fair to me.”
Persson additionally provides that merely making a ‘Minecraft 2’ could be “super illegal,” and that his religious sequel could be “a new original game of the same type as Minecraft and [called] something else.”
Persson began making Minecraft in 2009, with it nearly immediately changing into a multimillion-dollar success story. By 2014, Persson bought his stake in his studio Mojang to Microsoft, with the Minecraft IP and Mojang bought for $2.5 billion. Since then Mojang continues to replace Minecraft, and the sport has bought over 300 million copies as of its fifteenth anniversary.
You could find Persson’s ballot for his subsequent sport proper right here.
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