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Download Minecraft for Free and Create Your Own World!

Reviewed by: David Galvin

Categories/Tags: adventurebuild stufffantasy thememultiplayeropen explorationsurvival

• What's Free - Play game for 100 minutes.
• File Size -
• Play It On - Win XP/Vista/7
• Support - Minecraft Support
• Game Created By - Mojang

DFG Exclusive Review Summary

• Allows for endless levels of exploration and creativity.
• Interesting visual style.
• Thousands of secrets to discover.
• It's effectively many games in one package.

• Crafting is very confusing.
• It's a hassle to get a multiplayer game going.

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Game Description

Enter the Do-It-Yourself World of Minecraft!

Minecraft is an open world that lets you do anything you want. Farming, mining, questing, breeding, brewing and crafting all await players in this game!

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Truly Unlimited Replay Value

Minecraft's free form nature equals endless replay value. You will always be finding new goals and quests to undertake in this game. The only limit is your own imagination! Minecraft is never the same game twice.

Survival of the Fittest

In survival mode, the goal of the game is to survive and thrive in a fierce overworld full of danger and hunger. When your player is first born, your most pressing goal is to build shelter and survive the first night. After that, your character will create their first tool, which is usually a pickaxe. This newly acquired pickaxe will open up the wide world of mining and gathering raw materials. These raw materials may be crafted into a wide variety of useful items.

Gathering items and materials is one of the most time consuming and rewarding aspects of the game. Monsters often drop the rarest and greatest materials for crafting, so questing and battling mobs is a big part of the game.

Survival mode does have a definitive ending, but the game doesn't stop there. You may continue playing the game in this mode even after the core objectives have been met.

Create Anything in Creative Mode

There are unlimited blocks and resources in creative mode, freeing players to unleash their wildest imaginings. With no hunger or health bar to worry about you can focus on building just about anything you can dream up. Cities, roller coasters, sets from movies and TV shows and more are just waiting to be built. The possibilities are truly endless!

In addition to being essentially invincible, players can also fly in creative mode. Flying is both fun and practical, enabling you to move much faster than walking.

Gameplay Changes According to Your Moods

The world of Minecraft is directly shaped by the player who plays it. Go from farming one day to slaying monsters the next. It's all entirely up to you. Minecraft defies strict genre rules and allows you to let your imagination run wild!

Endearing Art Style

Few people are immune to the charming 8 bit inspired artwork in Minecraft. The intentionally blocky style lends itself easily to a wide variety of different creations.

Minecraft is a game that appeals to anyone with a creative streak. If you can think it, you can make it!

Guides, Strategies, and Hints

The Minecraft Guide 01 - How to do 6 essential things on your first day to make a shelter and survive

The Minecraft Guide 02 - How to take advantage of the different climates, geography, and villages

The Minecraft Guide 03 - The most reliable ways to get food for yourself

Minecraft Review

- Review by David Galvin

Dave Galvin is a freelance writer and avid gamer. Somehow, he managed to find a way to combine the two passions.

A Game with Just About Everything

When you purchase, download, install or just start playing a new game, what exactly are you looking for in it? Do you want to immerse yourself in a virtual world? Do you want to conquer challenges and solve problems? Do you want to exercise your creativity in some way?

Minecraft shatters genre conventions like no game has before. It does all of the above in unique ways, and it does them amazingly well. To put it shortly, Minecraft has managed to become one of the deepest, most complex and most ambitious games ever produced, and it has managed to do so with only the simplest of mechanics.

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Taking Simplicity to an All New Level

If you take a simple glance at a screenshot or video of Minecraft, you might not think much of it. Everything looks incredibly primitive, as if the game was made in 1995. Every scene, every object, and every creature is made entirely out of cubic blocks with only the simplest of pixilated textures applied to them.

Give it a chance. There is an odd sense of retro beauty to Minecraft's aesthetics. There are many blocks that are used to represent different kinds of substances, like dirt, rock, wood, water and metal, and they are all used as literal building blocks to craft these massive and intricate worlds. After a while, Minecraft looks less like a primitive mess and more like a virtual Lego set. There is a charm to its style.

Even so, the game also manages to throw in plenty of ambience. Day passes into night in real time, the sky turns golden as the cubic sun rises and sets, and animals bark and bleat with authentic sound effects. Minecraft may not look like a real world, but it does what it can to feel like one.

Minecraft is Massive

Figuring out what genre Minecraft belongs to is an exercise in futility. It dabbles in a lot of them! There are elements of adventure, survival-horror, RPG and simulation. You can play by yourself or with a whole group of people. More than anything else, what's not included in the base package can be easily modded in.

At the heart of Minecraft's gameplay is the simple act of digging. Armed with what has got to be the mightiest pickaxe in the world, you can use it to break apart just about anything, including soil, rocks, iron and sheep. Just by hacking and whacking at the environment, you can clear out entire forests, level entire mountains, or even dig your own elaborate networks of underground tunnels. The potential is limitless.

Not only that, but every item you destroy can then be added to your inventory. What you do with these items is up to you. At the very least, you can place them anywhere in the world. You can rearrange the scenery in whatever way you like, or create elaborate structures, houses, fortresses or statues with the materials you gather. There's a great sense of accomplishment in just building a little hut with four walls and a wooden door, but you're free to create an entire castle complete with towers and ramparts from the ground up if you want.

Materials can also be used to craft useful tools like stronger pickaxes, swords and bows. You can put together environmental items as well, like torches, stairs, bookcases, pistons, trapdoors and ladders. The number of things you can craft is simply astounding!

Unfortunately, this is where Minecraft's greatest weakness can be seen. Crafting is not an intuitive process, there are no tutorials around to explain anything to you, and the recipes can be pretty obscure. If you want to learn anything, then you'll have to read up or watch a guide, as well keep a cheat sheet of crafting recipes on hand.

However, when you do get the hang of things, crafting can be a fun process. There's nothing quite like gathering the right quantity of materials from the world and putting together a legendary sword of blockiness to smite your enemies with!

Survive

This leads straight into the Survival game. The goal of this mode is to survive for as long as you possibly can with the base mechanics in mind. During the day, your procedurally-generated world will be relatively safe; you're free to explore the place, collect resources, mine tunnels, build forts, and simply explore to find potentially useful resources.

When night falls, things get hairy. All manner of dangerous creatures begin to appear, such as zombies, skeletons, giant spiders and the dreaded Endermen. These guys will try to kill you, so you've got to do everything you can to survive.

How you do that is going to be up to your own ingenuity. You can erect walls to keep them at bay, dig out hiding spots, or take the fight to them using whatever weapons you've managed to amass. Combat is a fairly simple affair that works much like digging; just hack away at the enemy until they die, hopefully before they whittle you down. Combat's not all that deep, but it's fun to test your latest inventions against the most fearsome creatures the game can throw at you.

Exploration plays a huge role in Survival mode as well. While the worlds are procedurally generated, they are expansive and filled with all sorts of distinct biomes. There are mountains, fields, rivers, deserts and forests to traverse through, each of which is rife with useful materials.

More than that, you can even uncover massive caverns and ruins underground if you opt to dig. It's not enough to travel across the land of Minecraft; you'll also want to go under it. How many games let you do that?

Create

As said before, creation plays a large role in Minecraft's gameplay. If you have more fun just building things than surviving the horrors of its blocky universe, then you can opt to play the game's Creative mode. You're invincible, you have an infinite quantity of every item and resource in your inventory, and all the time in the world to just build whatever the heck you want. You can construct whole cities and landscapes if you feel so inclined, or put together blocky sculptures of your favorite characters, robots and vehicles. You can even make entire worlds that other players can explore.

Play Together

You can lose whole days just by playing by yourself in Minecraft. However, it's possible to get together with other people as well. Working with a partner or two or three can shake things up. You can build faster, cover more ground, and put your heads together to shape the world in really crazy ways.

Sadly, it's very difficult to get started. In order to get the multiplayer going, you need to download additional software and configure the servers correctly. If you know nothing about networking, you're going to have a hard time getting things up and running.

Conclusion: It Strikes Gold!

Quibbles aside, there's a reason why Minecraft has been the talk of the game industry since 2010. It's just that amazing! It's innovative, it's creative, and it's tremendous. You can construct entire worlds with its tools or go on an adventure that never ends. You can explore and shape the blocky lands by yourself in your own image, or do so together with some company.

It may confuse you at first, but conquering the learning curve of Minecraft will make it that much more rewarding.

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Minecraft, the wildly popular sandbox game, isn’t free. That’s the bad news. The good news is that there are several ways that you can play Minecraft, or at least test it out, without having to pay any money. We sampled a few methods to see which one would be most effective for getting a free Minecraft experience as close to the full version as possible.

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Below are several options if you want to play Minecraft for free. The specifics depend on which platform you are using, either PC/Mac or Console. Sadly, there are no free options to play Minecraft on your mobile device (Android and iOS).

How to play Minecraft for free on PC/Mac (Java Edition)

For a while now, Minecraft has had a demo version that you can download after creating an account on the official website. The demo lets you play for nearly two hours in a single world, as well as in survival mode. After 5 in-game “days” however, the demo forcibly ends. This equals about 100 minutes, as each Minecraft game day lasts 20 minutes of real-world time.

If you don’t have a premium account, you can only run the demo.

There is, however, a simple trick you can use to play longer: open Windows Explorer, type %AppData% and then hit Enter.

Go into the folder marked saves/Demo_World Minecraft and delete the files Level.dat and level.dat_old. If you restart the demo, you should be able to play.

Delete these two files and you’ll be able to continue playing the demo.

Can you play Minecraft for free on Windows 10?

There’s a lot of confusion about whether Minecraft can be played for free on Windows 10. At the moment, there is unfortunately no known way to play for free on this platform.

Back in the beta, there was a time when you could get the Windows 10 edition for free, but that opportunity expired a long time ago.

The good news is that if you previously purchased Minecraft for the PC (Java Edition) from Mojang, you can transfer your older paid account over to Windows 10 for free. In other words, you don’t need to purchase Minecraft again just to play the new version on Windows 10.

To claim your free Windows 10 copy, first, log into account.mojang.com, and under the My Games heading you will find a button to claim your gift code. If you purchased Minecraft: Java Edition after October 19th, 2018, the button will not be there. Pressing the button will generate a token and send you to a Microsoft redemption page.

The original Minecraft was played in a web browser, and although early versions lacked many of the objects and creatures present in the current game, it still has all the essential Minecraft elements.

Can you play Minecraft on a console for free?

Yes! There are demo versions available both for Xbox and Playstation players.

You can find free demo versions of Minecraft for Xbox One and Xbox 360 through the Xbox Store.

PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Vita also have free demo versions of Minecraft in the PlayStation Store.

Just like the PC/Mac version, however, there are limitations. You can only play the tutorial level and you cannot save your game progress. The demo versions only give you a small taste of what the gameplay is like.

Can you play Minecraft Classic in your browser for free?

The original Minecraft was played in a web browser, and although early versions lacked many of the objects and creatures present in the current game, for a long time, it still had all the essential Minecraft elements.

Sadly, Minecraft Classic is no more, and the web page where it was hosted has since been removed by Microsoft.

Minecraft Classic is no longer available, but it once allowed you to play a simple version of Minecraft in your web browser.

Can you play older versions of Minecraft for free (betas included)?

The new launcher lets you run older versions of Minecraft, even if you haven’t paid for the game. To do this, you just have to create a new profile and allow the use of “Historical” Minecraft versions (the old ones) from the Launch Options menu.

To do this:

1. Enable historical options by clicking on the switch.
2. Choose “Add New”
3. Select which version you’d like to play from the very long list of releases. The old Alpha and Beta versions are towards the bottom.

Yes, you can play the beta version of Minecraft as much as you like without paying a penny.

Can you play Minecraft for free by using game cards?

Well, yes, but with important warnings. Numerous Minecraft game cards are available, and there are several web sites and mobile apps that will let you “earn” them without having to pay for them with real money.

Technically speaking, they’re not “free” because you have to do something to earn the game card. And this is where you want to be careful.

Some of these systems require you to view ads, share links with your friends, or complete lengthy surveys. Some are even known to try to install malware on your device — and dealing with the trouble that this can cause often costs more than the price of buying Minecraft in the first place.

If you really like it, buy it

There are ways that you can play a demo of Minecraft for free, but our advice is simple: if you like it, buy it.

These options are good if you want to test out the game or play around a bit before you decide whether or not you want to buy it, but in the end, if you want to enjoy all of Minecraft and everything it has to offer, nothing beats the full, paid version of the game.

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