I think Minecraft is the best game ever made, for so many reasons, it is my favorite game ever - and It's not even close.
Minecraft gives you infinite possibilities to create anything you can think of, and, more importantly, play any way you want.
Because of this, the way I mainly play it, Minecraft manages to strike a perfect balance between gathering resources, automation and seeing the numbers go up and then using your resources to be creative and build whatever you want to.
There are so many more aspects of the game and its community I could touch on, but ill leave it at this:
Minecraft means so much to me that I personally could never give it anything but a perfect score.