Minecraft: Legends
Discover the mysteries of Minecraft Legends, a new action strategy game. Explore a gentle land of rich resources and lush biomes on the brink of destruction. The ravaging piglins have arrived, and it’s up to…
Minecraft: Legends is an arcade developed by Blackbird Interactive, released 18 April 2023 on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4.
What Minecraft: Legends is
Minecraft: Legends is an arcade game developed by Blackbird Interactive and released in 2023. It was published by Xbox Game Studios. It is available on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Bedrock Engine.
The premise, in the publisher's words
The game begins with the player mining in a cave when they are greeted by three beings: Action, Knowledge, and Foresight. These beings are called Hosts, caretakers of the Overworld. These three persuade the player to help them save their world, where a war has broken out between the Nether and the Overworld. The player is then transported to that world. After completing a tutorial, the player must save a few villages from being invaded by piglins from the Nether. Then, the player destroys three nether outposts that are preparing to invade villages. Subsequently, the player destroys nine Nether portals from three different world areas. In each of these three areas, the player has to defeat a…
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action, fantasy and sandbox. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer and Single player.
Where it sits in the Minecraft series
Minecraft: Legends is the 97th of 131 entries we hold in the Minecraft series. The next entry was Minecraft x Crocs: Choose Your Mode in 2023. Its critic score of 71 is 4 points above the series average of 67. The highest-rated entry is Minecraft: Dungeons & Dragons at 88.
How it was received
Minecraft: Legends holds a critic score of 71 out of 100. That places it above 44% of the 2,164 rated arcade games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2023 averaged 76, so it scored 5 points below the year average.
What it launched against
Minecraft: Legends launched on 18 April 2023, within three weeks of Dead Island 2, Star Wars Jedi: Survivor, Dredge and Honkai: Star Rail. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 3 years into the PlayStation 5's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Dead Island 2, Star Wars Jedi: Survivor, Dredge, Honkai: Star Rail.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Minecraft: Legends yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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