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Nintendo World ReportMinecraft: Nintendo Switch Edition Review
Published 5/10/2017
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Minecraft
Minecraft focuses on allowing the player to explore, interact with, and modify a dynamically-generated map made of one-cubic-meter-sized blocks. In addition to blocks, the environment features plants, mobs, and items. Some activities in the game include mining for ore, fighting hostile mobs, and crafting new blocks and tools by gathering various resources found in the game. The game's open-ended model allows players to create structures, creations, and artwork on various multiplayer servers or their single-player maps. Other features include redstone circuits for logic computations and remote actions, minecarts and tracks, and a mysterious underworld called the Nether. A designated but completely optional goal of the game is to travel to a dimension called the End, and defeat the ender dragon.
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- Mojang Studios
- Publisher
- Mojang Studios
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Critic avg
91
23 scored reviews
Total coverage
23
All coverage currently scored
Score range
80–100
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Mostly aligned
Score range is 11–20 points
Critic landscape
The critic average is 91 across 23 scored reviews, with a 20-point spread. Critics mostly agree, but there is some useful variation in the individual reviews.
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Most scored reviews currently sit in the 90–100 band.
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23 included scored reviews
90–10020 reviews · 87%
80–893 reviews · 13%
70–790 reviews · 0%
Below 700 reviews · 0%
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Steven McGehee
Digital ChumpsMinecraft: Switch Edition
Published 3/12/2017
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85
-6 vs critic avg
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Read originalLeigh Groocock
Cubed3Cubed3 Minecraft Review
Published 3/2/2015
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90
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GameSpotMinecraft Xbox One Edition Review
Published 10/28/2014
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90
-1 vs critic avg
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ImpulsegamerMinecraft PlayStation 4 Edition Review
Published 10/22/2014
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95
+4 vs critic avg
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Read originalCameron Woolsey
GameSpotMinecraft: PlayStation 4 Edition Review
Published 10/19/2014
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90
-1 vs critic avg
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Read originalKen McKown
ZTGDMinecraft: Xbox One Edition (XB1) Review – ZTGD
Published 9/17/2014
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90
-1 vs critic avg
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Read originalDyani Wood
PlayStation LifeStylePlayStation LifeStyle Minecraft Review
Published 9/9/2014
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90
-1 vs critic avg
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Read originalNathan Michalik
Push SquarePush Square Minecraft Review
Published 9/8/2014
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80
-11 vs critic avg
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Read originalAustin Garcia
TwinfiniteTwinfinite Minecraft Review
Published 9/5/2014
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100
+9 vs critic avg
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