Xbox 360

Minecraft: Story Mode - Season Two

Point-and-clickAdventure

Time to beat: about 8.5 hours
Plays offline: Yes

Overview

Minecraft: Story Mode is a discontinued episodic point-and-click video game developed and published by Telltale Games, based on Mojang Studios' sandbox game Minecraft. The first five episodes were released from October 2015 to March 2016, and an additional three episodes were released as downloadable content (DLC) in mid-2016. A second season consisting of five episodes was released from July to December 2017.

The game follows the same episodic format as other Telltale Games titles, such as The Walking Dead, The Wolf Among Us, Tales from the Borderlands, and Game of Thrones. The story revolves around a player-created character named Jesse, an everyman who is drawn into an adventure to save the world alongside their friends. In the first four episodes, Jesse and their friends attempt to reunite an old group of heroes called the Order of the Stone to save their world from the destructive Wither Storm. The rest of the first season follows Jesse and their friends as the new Order of the Stone on another adventure after discovering an enchanted artifact. In the second season, Jesse faces the powerful Admin.

Minecraft: Story Mode was available for Windows, macOS, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Wii U, Nintendo Switch, Xbox 360, Xbox One, Android, iOS and Apple TV. A retail version was released in December 2016, and the first season, excluding the DLC episodes, was released on Netflix in late 2018. However, both seasons were removed from digital storefronts due to the closure of Telltale Games in late 2018, causing Minecraft: Story Mode to be ultimately discontinued on June 25, 2019. The Netflix release was removed on December 5, 2022. The game received mixed reviews from critics.