For a short span, it became the center of our incredibly nerdy existence… “Should Sauron’s all-seeing eye go next to the Millennium Falcon, or over by the half-finished attempt at recreating The Wall from Game of Thrones?” I remember the first time my friends and I discovered Minecraft. In another “100” review, Gamespy similarly gushed over the freedom to create, maybe literally, anything: They will make something and they will have an experience that feels like theirs and theirs alone. It is a game anyone can play and anyone can get something out of, no matter how skilled or imaginative they are. Minecraft is a towering achievement in the very possibilities of gaming, and it does this without losing itself to either esoterica or cynicism. Minecraft even boasts a number of rare 100 scores from critics, including from Eurogamer, which said:

With an impressive 93 Metacritic score from critics and a 7.6 from users, there’s no sign of its popularity waning any time soon: Having sold 176 million copies across all platforms, Minecraft is considered the best-selling game of all time, so that should tell you something. First things first, is the game any good?