Minecraft Dungeons

Minecraft Dungeons is an adventure action game set in the Minecraft universe, supporting co-op play for up to 4 players. The story revolves around a demon named Arch-Illager, who attacks a peaceful village and starts troubling its inhabitants. You will take on the role of a hero who attempts to defeat the villain and save the homeland from dark forces, with the help of your comrades. You will venture into a very large dungeon. As you explore, you will acquire new weapons, armor, and, of course, treasures. The team will travel through swamps, canyons, and numerous caves.

Minecraft: Dungeons is an action-RPG with dungeon-crawling and Diablo-like elements, featuring an isometric camera, inspired by the famous Minecraft sandbox. The gameplay generally aligns with the genre: the character runs through locations from different biomes, slashes a few monsters in various ways, battles hefty bosses, and collects loot and emeralds that drop everywhere.

However, the gameplay is significantly simplified. For example, the armor set is generalized into one slot, the character can use no more than three abilities, and weapons differ in only the most general characteristics. Combat is reduced to pressing a couple of buttons: one for melee attacks, the other for ranged attacks.

Additionally, Dungeons lacks the creative potential inherent in Minecraft. You cannot dig, gather resources, build, change the character's appearance, create your own dungeons, share them with other players, or make mods.

The events of Dungeons take place in the same universe as Minecraft, but there are no connections to the original sandbox or Minecraft: Story Mode . Nor are there any elaborate storylines, epic CGI scenes, lengthy dialogues, or even humor—the "story's" purpose is to drive the player forward and tie together the disparate pieces of gameplay.

The story of Dungeons is stereotypical: long ago, an outcast stumbled upon an ancient dungeon where he found a special artifact, the Orb of Dominance. The find quickly took over his mind, turning him into an evil tyrant who enslaved the free game world. The player must liberate it, while simultaneously defeating the tyrant, as explained in briefings before and after each location.

The action in Dungeons covers a dozen small, handcrafted levels, with a bit of procedural generation added. However, the visual style of Minecraft is preserved, meaning all level elements consist of cubes (which are indestructible).

In Dungeons, there are two class archetypes—warrior and archer, which can eventually be developed into something more—barbarian, mage, or summoner. There is no strict loot binding to classes, but equipping melee and ranged weapons, as well as armor, should be based on their parameters. Some items are better suited for an archer, others for a mage. Additionally, items in the game are divided into four rarity classes, and the higher the rarity, the better the item. As the character levels up, weapons become outdated and need to be replaced with new ones.

With each level up, the player receives enchantment points, which can be spent on improving secondary properties of weapons and armor. Also, new difficulty levels are unlocked with each playthrough, making the game better. Появляются новые противники и усиленные версии старых, выпадает новый лут, открываются новые способности, а у оружия и брони открываются дополнительные ячейки для новых пассивок.

У персонажа есть база, куда он возвращается после каждой миссии и может зайти к кузнецу, торговцам и обойти хранилище коллекционных предметов. Там же можно выбрать, играть в одиночку или с друзьями. Локальный кооператив требует наличия каждого игрока около монитора и нескольких контроллеров. Прохождение в разных режимах не отличается — у каждого игрока будет свой лут, сгенерированный с учетом уровня персонажа и его класса.