The debut trailer can be seen at the top of this article. The first few minutes set up the narrative and lore, where the overworld unites to take on a common, Piglin foe invading the world from another dimension. About 1:36 in, it shifts to a bit of gameplay, showing horse riding, base building, combat with a little tower defense, and one big explosion.
Developer Mojang has partnered with Blackbird Interactive on the project, which has worked on Hardspace: Shipbreaker, Crossfire: Legion, and Homeworld 3.
This isn’t the first time that Mojang has taken a side road through the Minecraft universe. Minecraft Dungeons popped up in 2020, and if the name didn’t give anything away, it’s a dungeon-crawling action-adventure game set in the Minecraft universe. We mostly enjoyed it, praising it for its “gameplay, four-player support on and off-line, large, and large, diverse levels.”
The original Minecraft experience, which launched over a decade ago, is still going strong. It recently released its 1.19 Wild Update.
