This fucking game.......I hope each decade gets a monumental game like this.......The music........Torches.......Flying......Underwater living.....Cloud living.......The coming above ground to see a sunset after a long few quiet nights in caves where no one in the chat has spoken for an hour......Boat trips.......hearing a creeper hiss behind your shoulder........The adventure....The unknown.....The laughs.......The memories.........The imagination.....Lose yourself in the Minecraft The moment you better never let it go goooo

This is a super hard game to rate, especially since I believe that the best (and only reasonable way to play on a world for more than 2 hours) is modded. The base game is good, but damn if I'm not tired of it after probably at least two thousand hours of it. Would recommend Material Energy^3 and Questing Mayhem.

update from Several years into the future:
vanilla survival is actually legit maybe like a 4 or 5/10. boring as shit and there's nothing to do. BUT mods make this game really good, and so do all the servers with minigames and whatnot. Adventure maps are great as well, don't know how much those really exist anymore but they're always fun. Everything here is good except the actual "main" game and it sucks that so many devs have taken the wrong message from this game's success and just made soooo many shitty, boring survival crafting games lol

Can I even rate this any lower? I've seen people complain about the new additions, but honestly that's just the course of nature. People hate change.
Minecraft is an unavoidable addition to any game collection. It's the most popular game. Of course it's enjoyable.
I've spent hours and hours playing, vanilla, modded, shaders on, shaders off, servers, and alone. All that. I tend to prefer to play modded but even then I can always return to vanilla and it never feels stale.
I remember my first time playing Minecraft even. On my mother's iPad of all things. Tilling the ground for seeds, building my house against the world border, building pixel art ufs I found on Google images over and over. Dirt huts galore. Truly a great game. There's not really anything to say.

This game is 95% carried by the community but thank god it is. I don't think there's a game that has given me more fun over the past 10 years of my life than Minecraft.

So, the main problem with Minecraft's singleplayer is a general lack of things to do. Once you've played it enough you either start minmaxxing in your survival world or start building aimlessly (and you can get to this part really damn fast if you're experienced enough). The 'exploration' part of Minecraft has been quite underutilized as a result because the Overworld does just feel like a bunch of empty land with not much to do, at least without mods and whatnot.

I wish we got more content in each update, with more reasons to explore. Honestly, the Nether and Cave changes have been really fun and add to the replayability of the game. It does feel a bit more exploration-based, and I think the building is already top-notch as it is in Minecraft. I just wished they could do more.

However, with such an open and creative game, you get some really damn creative people who play it. There are SO MANY THINGS TO DO in Minecraft when taking into account the community. Whether it's mods, or servers, or community events, there's just so many things to enjoy with other people. The survival multiplayer loop also becomes amazing if you have a group of people, culminating in what is pretty much the perfect multiplayer game.

Honestly, if this game didn't get as big as it did, it wouldn't be half as good. However, I'm thankful for the past 10 years this game has granted to me and it's been a wonderful time.

in grade ten we had a PE teacher who would usually just give up and say "fuck it, go do whatever activities you want here with your friends." i didn't have any friends so i just kinda sat there and he was like, "why the fuck are you just sitting there" and i was like, "fuck you man i dunno what to do." this game is very neat but it feels exactly like that to me. it's only fun with friends and even then, never a game i really choose to play. or want to play. you gotta put in so much time to make anything neat and, if you haven't already played this before, playing it with people who have just pisses them off when you don't know how to smelt shit. maybe i could spend fifty hours gathering materials and learning how to use redstone to build a little lever or something or i could just have sex with my wife.

Nunca é um bom sinal quando eu me percebo jogando Minecraft novamente. Minecraft volta para a minha vida somente quando tem algo de muito errado com ela. Isso porque não é um jogo, para mim, sobre liberdade, criatividade e aventura, mas sim um jogo sobre organização, compulsão e controle.

Não é a toa ele ter sido um dos jogos mais jogados quando eu estava recém formado, desempregado, sem perspectiva de arranjar qualquer emprego. Minha vida estava um caos e tudo o que eu queria era ter certeza sobre alguma coisa, eu queria me sentir no controle do meu destino.

No jogo, eu passava horas colecionando e categorizando blocos, automatizando drops, acumulando recursos, construindo edifícios, tentando juntar as migalhas de qualquer sensação de agência e controle para me sentir vivo.

Não jogo mais Minecraft hoje, mas ele sempre volta em algum momento. Ele fica na espreita, como um urubu olhando o animal moribundo esperando para tirar uma lasca de carniça. O que me resta é esperar que, cada vez mais cedo, eu consiga entender o que realmente significa em cada momento aquela vontade de começar um mundo novo e criar o primeiro workbench.