Minecraft Dungeons Review thread

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Out May 26 PC/Xbox/Switch/PS4
Summary: What exactly is Minecraft: Dungeons? It's an all-new action-adventure game inspired by classic dungeon crawlers, where you'll constantly discover new weapons and items that will help you defeat a ruthless swarm of new-and-nasty mobs. You'll fight or flee through canyons, swamps and of course mines. You can brave the dungeons alone, or team up with friends. Up to four players can battle together through action-packed, treasure-stuffed, wildly varied levels, all in an epic quest to save the villagers and take down the evil Arch-Illager.

General consensus is it's fun but short (3.5 hours to play through once) but offers a lot of replay value.
Destructoid: 8

PowerUp Gaming: 9.3

Windows Central: 9

Attack of the Fanboy: 8

GameSpew: 8

Trusted Reviews: 7

True Achievements: 8

PCGamesN: 7

GamingBible: 8


Skill up: Not reccomended
 
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I watched some streamers play it, and it's incredibly basic. Even the replayability is questionable. It doesn't have a Diablo style gear system: it just has fixed loot you get randomly. There are no affixes or prefixes or randomization in stats. Plus character progression is primitive as hell, and levels are linear.

It looks like an afternoon of coop fun.
 
I watched some streamers play it, and it's incredibly basic. Even the replayability is questionable. It doesn't have a Diablo style gear system: it just has fixed loot you get randomly. There are no affixes or prefixes or randomization in stats. Plus character progression is primitive as hell, and levels are linear.

It looks like an afternoon of coop fun.
It's a a game made by three or four people from Mojang in their spare time, what did you expect?
 
I watched some streamers play it, and it's incredibly basic. Even the replayability is questionable. It doesn't have a Diablo style gear system: it just has fixed loot you get randomly. There are no affixes or prefixes or randomization in stats. Plus character progression is primitive as hell, and levels are linear.

It looks like an afternoon of coop fun.
feeling shared.
 
I was informed this game will sell over 100 million copies. I'm going to take the under.

But, it does look fun. I plan to pick it up on Switch. Sadly, my one kid who is still a Minecraft fan, won't play this with me. He says it looks stupid. 😔
 
Bummer. An ARPG that is bare on content might as well not even exist. :lollipop_weary:
I agree, He mentioned only getting a couple of loot drops per level. I'll check it out on gamepass but I think this review shows me everything I need to know.

If you want to play a procedurally generated ARPG you'd be better off playing Children of Morta which is also on gamepass.


Nice, I'll look it up.
 
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I watched some streamers play it, and it's incredibly basic. Even the replayability is questionable. It doesn't have a Diablo style gear system: it just has fixed loot you get randomly. There are no affixes or prefixes or randomization in stats. Plus character progression is primitive as hell, and levels are linear.

It looks like an afternoon of coop fun.

Minecraft has always been basic for any ages
 
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General consensus is it's fun but short (3.5 hours to play through once) but offers a lot of replay value

I don't mind shorter games, but that's pushing it. Especially in an action RPG. That's barely enough time to get invested in my character progression. I'm not really into the "play the game over and over on higher difficulties" thing.

Do we know how much this is on Switch?
 
Is the embargo lifted? Curious why we didn't get review drops from the bigger outlets like IGN, GameSpot, etc.
 
I don't mind shorter games, but that's pushing it. Especially in an action RPG. That's barely enough time to get invested in my character progression. I'm not really into the "play the game over and over on higher difficulties" thing.
Definitely disappointing. But I'm looking at it as a fun afternoon on Gamepass.
 


Whilst I likely agree with him, I do find this chap to be extremely insufferable.

He has this pompous, weary delivery that implies he knows absolutely everything about everything, and that if only the developers had asked him, everything would have worked out perfectly.
 
Everyone seems to be down on it here but the reviews are surprisingly pretty good. Should be a decent time with the kid at least.
 
Between this and Minecraft earth it feels like Microsoft really don't understand what people want from the Minecraft IP.

4 hours of very basic dungeon crawling, no random stats or itemisation. Sounds like a "my first diablo" rather than something worthy of the Minecraft name, which is associated with longitivity and customisation.
 
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Seems like a wasted opportunity.
I can understand trying to get minecraft gamers into a different genre, certainly Gears Tactics worked out well.
But to seriously gimp the experience feels like they didn't believe that anyone would take it seriously.
A shame really because the gameplay videos look fun but sounds like the game overall is a shallow puddle rather than a pool.

I'll still go through it once on gamepass but disappointed they didn't bother putting any effort behind it
 
I feel like people have pretty high expectations for a $20 game. Personally I never expected it to have much depth to it, but it does look like a fun way to spend an afternoon.
 
I feel like people have pretty high expectations for a $20 game. Personally I never expected it to have much depth to it, but it does look like a fun way to spend an afternoon.

I've played a bunch of fantastic $20 games that have much longer campaigns than 3.5 hours.
 
I've played a bunch of fantastic $20 games that have much longer campaigns than 3.5 hours.
That's true, but more often I've paid more than $20 for less.
 
Wtf does 3.5 hours to finish means.?

It'a an ARPG right? Its about the loot right?
Getting better loot&repeat
 
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Wccftech's review: "The shallowest of depths"


Minecraft Dungeons is short, sweet, and uncomplicated. And for a genre with a history of complex menus and an overwhelming desire to crush you under numbers, that can be a mixed bag.
 
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