Mojang has ended improvement on Minecraft Dungeons three years after launch and after hitting a powerful 25 million gamers.
Minecraft Dungeons is a dungeon crawler spin-off that launched for Nintendo Change, PlayStation 4, PC, and Xbox One in Might 2020, and for Xbox Collection X and S in February 2021. IGN’s Minecraft Dungeons overview returned a 7/10. “Easy and enjoyable to play, Minecraft Dungeons is an effective entry-level dungeon crawler, nevertheless it would not dig too deep,” we mentioned.
In a notice to gamers, Mojang mentioned Minecraft Dungeons “exceeded our wildest desires”, however “each journey has an finish”. Replace 1.17, launched November 2022, goes down as Minecraft Dungeons’ final, and now Mojang has moved on to new initiatives “that proceed to discover experiences within the Minecraft universe”.
This implies there are not any new options or content material updates deliberate for Minecraft Dungeons. “We do intend to proceed bringing new experiences to the Minecraft universe and provides our staff the liberty to maintain exploring the varieties of video games they’re enthusiastic about — simply as they did with Dungeons!” Mojang continued.
Regardless of this, Minecraft Dungeons stays on-line and playable. “There are nonetheless loads of adventures available along with your mates; dungeons to spelunk, historic hunts to overcome, and toppling a Tower whose format will proceed to rotate,” Mojang mentioned.
Mojang’s work on Minecraft continues, in fact. In April, Mojang launched Minecraft Legends, a method spin-off that mixes conventional Minecraft gameplay with real-time technique components.
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