Digging, building and surviving in a world where each night brings its danger and each vein its promise kicks off a loop of exploration and creation with no real end. Setting yourself a next goal, a house, a mine, a monster to defeat, always restarts the game. The dated blocky look caps the horizon, but the freedom on offer keeps a rare power to absorb.
Build, mine, explore an endlessly generated world: that is what makes Mojang's open-ended adventure all but infinite. Surviving the creatures of the night, oversized building projects, cave delving and multiplayer cooperation extend the experience as long as imagination lasts. It is that pure freedom that earns it the status of a timeless phenomenon.