- Publisher: Mojang AB
- Release Date: Sep 13, 2017
- Also On: PC, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, PlayStation Vita, Switch, Wii U, Xbox 360, Xbox One
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Mixed or average reviews- based on 47 Ratings
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Positive: 26 out of 47
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Mixed: 7 out of 47
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Negative: 14 out of 47
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Feb 11, 2018ARE YOU KIDDING ME?! Minecraft for the 3DS? Cool, but not as good as other editions. This is ridiculous.
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Feb 28, 2022The 3DS version is ok. You can do some features of regular Minecraft, but it can be laggy at times. The graphics are worse, too. Also, the game seems to crash a lot. To be honest, just play it on another system.
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Nintendo Force MagazineJan 7, 2018As someone who's played every version of Minecraft to date, this New 3DS edition is the one I'm going to come back to the least. [Issue #31 – January/February 2018, p. 28E]
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Oct 19, 2017Minecraft New 3DS Edition isn’t a bad game at all—at its core it’s still the same brilliantly addictive creativity sandbox. That said, its complete lack of multiplayer and the availability of the vastly superior Nintendo Switch version for the same price unfortunately makes Minecraft on 3DS functionally obsolete.
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Sep 27, 2017We suspect that some will purchase Minecraft for the New 3DS for the sake of having it on every platform, but it’s hard to see the audience that would buy this version instead of any of the superior versions available on other platforms, including both the Wii U and the Switch. While the 3DS’s touch screen does add some convenience, the trade-offs made to fit such a large game onto the New 3DS create a notable deficit. If you don’t have another platform on which to play Minecraft, New 3DS Edition is a good way to test the waters and sample the solo experience, but there’s so much more that this game has to offer elsewhere.