Minecraft Earth

Not to be confused with Minecon Earth.

Minecraft Earth
Developer(s)Mojang Studios
Blackbird Interactive
Publisher(s)Xbox Game Studios
Director(s)
  • Torfi Frans Olafsson
  • Craig Leigh[1]
Composer(s)Shauny Jang[2]
SeriesMinecraft
Platform(s)
Release
  • 17 October 2019; 5 years ago (17 October 2019)
  • (early access)
Genre(s)
Mode(s)

Minecraft Earth was an augmented reality and geolocation-based sandbox game developed by Mojang Studios and Blackbird interactive and published by Xbox Game Studios. A spin-off of the video game Minecraft, it was first announced in May 2019, and was available on Android and iOS. The game was free-to-play, and was first released in early access on 17 October 2019. The game received its final update in January 2021 and officially shut down on 30 June 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[3][4][5][6]

As well as being an augmented reality game, Minecraft Earth was also a location-based game due to its use of a GPS-tracked world map, similar to Pokémon Go.

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