Minecraft Legends review: a cute kid-friendly strategy adventure, but missing the series’ magic

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Sometimes the top-line pitch for a game is better than the actual finished product. Such is the case for Minecraft Legends, the latest spin-off intended to offer a different sort of gaming experience within the framework of the legendary survival franchise.

At preview, I was really impressed by Legends. After a successful jaunt into the RPG genre with ideal ‘my first dungeon crawler’ fodder Minecraft Dungeons, this title pitched the same again but for strategy titles. I like Minecraft, and I love strategy games, a genre that I feel is woefully under-served. Despite this, I’ve struggled to maintain interest in Minecraft Legends – and a lot of it is arguably down to simplicity.

As with Dungeons, the goal here is clearly to create something accessible and palatable to as wide an audience as possible. Minecraft is beloved by many very young children, and so any Minecraft game needs to have a sufficiently low barrier for entry. The bar is set low by Legends – but the game’s structure also doesn’t offer enough above and beyond that bar – which leads to an experience that feels brimming with potential, but lacking in its execution.

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