3.5/5 ★ – ButtonItJW's review of Minecraft Dungeons.

Most of my Minecraft knowledge is second-hand, gleaned from my daughter endlessly playing Creative mode and constructing elaborate fortresses to hide away in. Naturally, then, I recruited her as my couch co-op partner for Minecraft Dungeons, Mojang’s new Diablo-lite dungeon-crawling spin-off that’s available for free on Xbox Game Pass and at a pretty reasonable budget price everywhere else. This proved to be a good decision, in part because it was handy having a cute little talking glossary on-hand, but mainly because the game’s clearly designed for that kind of laidback family-friendly experience. And the blend of Minecraft’s anything-goes creative ecosystem and bizarre internal mythology with a just-deep-enough ARPG works surprisingly well. The core loop isn’t even that different. Where once you’d descend into the bowels of a jagged landscape to forage for resources with your own working-class hands, now you bonk the game’s enemies over the head and goodies spill out; where once you’d retreat to the relative safety of sunshine to turn those minerals and materials into a house or a castle or any number of other things, now you sleep at a campsite and use them to beef up your pixelated explorer with better weapons and equipment so they can venture into the wilderness once more. FULL REVIEW: https://readysteadycut.com/2020/05/27/minecraft-dungeons-review/