Minecraft Looks Beautifully Chill In Strategy Spin-Off Coming Next Year – Kotaku

Mojang is teaming up with Blackbird Interactive, the Canadian studio behind Homeworld 3, to make it. Minecraft Legends will also sport online campaign co-op and competitive multiplayer. Here’s how the developers describe the gameplay:

Minecraft Legends is a unique action strategy game. It has strategy elements at its core, but its mechanics are inspired by the immersion of action games. You get to explore the familiar yet in-many-ways-new Overworld in a third-person perspective. You will defend peaceful settlements and fight hordes of piglins to stop the spread of their Nether corruption. You are the center of every battle you lead, fighting alongside your allies while giving them directions. We’ll reveal more about how you’ll achieve the monumental task of repelling the piglins’ invasion in the coming months.

Previously hinted at in a livestream by former Giant Bomb co-host Jeff Gerstmann, Legends follows previous Minecraft spin-offs Minecraft Earth and Minecraft Dungeons. The latter is an excellent Diablo-like that continues to get new content and seasonal updates, and shows how malleable the source material’s bright and playful building blocks are. As I said back when Legends was first reported, if it can do for real-time strategy what Dungeons did for the isometric loot grind, I’ll be incredibly pleased.