Minecraft creator Markus “Notch” Persson says he’s hoping to start work on a new game that would serve as a “spiritual successor” to the block-based sandbox game he first created in 2009.
“I basically announced Minecraft 2,” Persson tweeted shortly after posting a poll asking for players’ opinions on the direction of his current project, which he says is “a traditional roguelike mixed with a tile-based first-person dungeon-crawler.”
I basically announced minecraft 2.
I thought that maybe people ACTUALLY do want me to make another game that’s super similar to the first one, and I’m loving working on games again.
I don’t super duper care exactly which game I make first (or even if I make more), but I do know…— notch (@notch) January 3, 2025
“But then I gots to thinking that maybe there are people who like my work but might not share my taste in retro nostalgia, and would prefer for me to make a spiritual successor thing to Minecraft, and I mean sure, I’d take that cash,” Persson wrote in a post sharing the poll.