Minecraft

Minecraft is less a game than a substrate: a world of textured cubes you can mine, stack and reshape into anything from a hovel to a working computer. That openness made it one of the best-selling games ever made and a genuine cultural force, especially among the younger players who grew up building inside it.

The franchise gathered here shows how far that block aesthetic has traveled. Telltale's episodic Minecraft: Story Mode gave the sandbox actual characters and plot, later games like Legends pushed it toward strategy and action, and 2025's A Minecraft Movie carried the look to the big screen. A shelf of tie-in books, including the long-running Diary of a Minecraft Zombie series, rounds it out. The constant is creativity: the world is only ever raw material.

The Minecraft franchise spans 1 series, 14 books, 6 games, 1 films in the CrossBinge catalog.