Minecraft: Story Mode

Minecraft: Story Mode

Author(s)	Mojang Studios Telltale Games
Platform(s)	Native (episodes 1–5) Backward-compatible Other (episodes 1–5)
Engine	Telltale Tool
Written in	Lua (Telltale Tool)
Latest version	Wii U: 1.0.1 Nintendo Switch: 1.0.0 Android: 1.37 iOS & iPadOS: 1.7 Fire & Fire Phone: 1.37 tvOS: 1.2
Release date	Episode 1 Windows, macOS, PS3, PS4 October 13, 2015 Xbox 360, Xbox One, iOS, iPadOS, Fire, Fire Phone October 14, 2015 Android October 15, 2015 Windows (Microsoft Store) December 16, 2015 Wii U January 21, 2016 tvOS August 24, 2016 Nintendo Switch August 22, 2017 Episode 2 Windows, macOS, Xbox 360, Xbox One, PS3, PS4 October 27, 2015 Android, iOS, iPadOS, Fire, Fire Phone October 29, 2015 Windows (Microsoft Store) December 16, 2015 tvOS August 24, 2016 Wii U December 13, 2016 Nintendo Switch August 22, 2017 Episode 3 Windows XP+, macOS, Xbox 360, Xbox One, PS3, PS4, Android, iOS, iPadOS, Fire, Fire Phone November 24, 2015 Windows 10/11 (Microsoft Store) December 16, 2015 tvOS August 24, 2016 Wii U December 13, 2016 Nintendo Switch August 22, 2017 Episode 4 iOS, iPadOS December 17, 2015 Windows, Xbox 360, Xbox One, macOS, PS3, PS4, Android, Fire, Fire Phone December 22, 2015 tvOS August 24, 2016 Wii U December 13, 2016 Nintendo Switch August 22, 2017 Episode 5 Windows, macOS, Xbox 360, Xbox One, PS3, PS4, Android, iOS, iPadOS, Fire, Fire Phone March 29, 2016 Microsoft Store (Windows) April 17, 2016 tvOS August 24, 2016 Wii U December 13, 2016 Nintendo Switch August 22, 2017 Episode 6 (DLC) Windows, macOS, Xbox 360, Xbox One, PS3, PS4, Android, iOS, iPadOS, Fire, Fire Phone June 7, 2016 Wii U December 13, 2016 Nintendo Switch August 22, 2017 Episode 7 (DLC) Windows, macOS, Xbox 360, Xbox One, PS3, PS4, Android, iOS, iPadOS, Fire, Fire Phone July 26, 2016 Wii U December 13, 2016 Nintendo Switch August 22, 2017 Episode 8 (DLC) Windows, macOS, Xbox 360, Xbox One, PS3, PS4, Android, iOS, iPadOS, Fire, Fire Phone September 13, 2016 Wii U December 13, 2016 Nintendo Switch August 22, 2017 Season Pass Disc North America October 27, 2015 Europe October 30, 2015 The Complete Adventure North America October 25, 2016 Europe October 28, 2016 Wii U December 13, 2016 Nintendo Switch August 22, 2017
Rating(s)	ESRB: E10+ PEGI: 12 ACB: PG Apple: 9+ Amazon: Guidance Suggested OFLC: PG-VL (Episodes 1‑2) OFLC: PG-V (Episodes 3–8) DEJUS: 10 USK: 6 GRAC: 12
Size	Windows XP+: 3.62 GB Windows 10+ (Microsoft Store): 5.52 GB macOS: 3.87 GB Xbox 360: 3.53 GB Xbox One: 5.05 GB PS3: 3.1 GB PS4: 5.05 GB Wii U: 678 MB Nintendo Switch: 4.3 GB Android: 19 MB iOS & iPadOS: 1.09 GB Fire & Fire Phone: 1–1.1 GB tvOS: 170 MB
License	Proprietary
Source available	No
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Box art by Mojang Studios

Minecraft: Story Mode was an episodic point-and-click narrative-driven graphic adventure video game based on the sandbox game Minecraft, released in October 2015 across multiple platforms with a Windows (Microsoft Store) release on December 16, 2015, a Wii U release on January 21, 2016, a tvOS release on August 24, 2016, and a Nintendo Switch release on August 22, 2017. It was developed by Mojang Studios, the developer of Minecraft, in collaboration with Telltale Games.

In June 2018, Netflix and Telltale signed a partnership agreement, and the first season of the game Minecraft: Story Mode was announced to be released on Netflix on November 7, 2018. Due to unknown reasons, the release date was pushed to November 27, 2018. That day, the first three episodes of the series were released and the next two episodes were released on December 5, 2018. The series was removed from Netflix on December 5, 2022.

Music for the game was composed by Antimo & Welles, consisting of Skyler Barto (Antimo) and Andrew Arcadi (Welles), and Anadel, an atmospheric folk band based in California that Andrew is also a part of. The game follows the episodic format that Telltale has used for its previous titles, where player choices and actions have significant effects on later story elements.

A sequel, Minecraft: Story Mode - Season Two, was released on July 11, 2017, featuring new storylines and characters.

On May 31, 2019, it was announced that Minecraft: Story Mode would no longer be supported following the closure of Telltale Games. The servers for Story Mode were discontinued on June 25, 2019, meaning that the episodes are no longer downloadable on most platforms. The Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and Nintendo Switch versions are playable on the Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 5, and Nintendo Switch 2 respectively via backward compatibility.

Gameplay

Minecraft: Story Mode is an episodic point-and-click narrative-driven graphic adventure video game similar to Telltale's previous titles such as Tales from the Borderlands. The player is able to collect items, solve puzzles, and talk to non-player characters though conversation trees to learn about the story and determine what to do next. Like other Telltale Games, decisions that the player makes have an impact on story elements in future episodes. However, unlike Telltale's previous games that carry more mature or emotional overtones including the death of major characters, Story Mode is known as a family-friendly title, so the decisions are still pivotal and emotional but do not involve mature imagery or themes. Elements of crafting and building, central to Minecraft, are included in the gameplay, following a similar approach. The game features combat and other action sequences, carried out through both quick time events similar to Telltale's other episodic games, and more arcade-like controls, such as steering around debris on a road. The game also mixes new characters with original themes to make an entirely original Minecraft experience.

Synopsis

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Jesse and his [sic] group of friends revere the legendary Order of the Stone; four adventurers who slayed an ender dragon. The Order are the very best at what they do: Warrior, Redstone Engineer, Griefer, and Architect. While at EnderCon, Jesse and his [sic] friends discover that something is wrong... something dreadful. Terror is unleashed, and they must set out on a journey to find The Order of the Stone if they are to save their world from oblivion.

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— Telltale Games

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Take control of an adventure set in the Minecraft universe. The future of the world is at stake, and your decisions shape the story, so choose wisely!

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— Netflix

Plot

Episode 1: The Order of the Stone

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Episode 2: Assembly Required

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Episode 3: The Last Place You Look

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Episode 4: A Block and a Hard Place

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Episode 5: Order Up!

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Episode 6: A Portal to Mystery

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Episode 7: Access Denied

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Episode 8: A Journey's End?

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Voice cast

Some characters in Story Mode (from left to right): Petra, Axel, Jesse, Olivia, Reuben and Lukas (in his original design)

In Story Mode, the player gets to choose the appearance of the main character, Jesse. The character can be either male or female and can also swap between varieties of clothing and skin tone.

Jesse and friends

• Patton Oswalt as Jesse (male), the main character
• Catherine Taber as Jesse (female)
• Dee Bradley Baker as Reuben, Jesse's pet pig who is smart and funny.
• Brian Posehn as Axel, who is fiercely loyal to his friends but can appear to act impulsively.
• Ashley Johnson as Petra, who is tough, shrewd, and very protective of her friends.
• Martha Plimpton as Olivia, who is assertive and smart but lacks patience.
• Scott Porter as Lukas, a member of the Ocelots who later befriends Jesse and their group.

Order of the Stone members

• Dave Fennoy as Gabriel the Warrior, a powerful fighter who appears at EnderCon
• Grey DeLisle as Ellegaard the Redstone Engineer, someone who is very smart but whose whereabouts are slightly hazy
• Corey Feldman as Magnus the Rogue, an impressive griefer who appreciates the "art" of griefing and who is also hard to find
• John Hodgman as Soren the Architect, a mysterious person who is the hardest to find and whose whereabouts have not been known for a while
• Paul Reubens as Ivor, a former member of the Order who distrusted Soren after the command block incident and who has vowed to demolish the world of the narrative

Old Builders members

• Yvette Nicole Brown as Harper, the creator of PAMA
• James Cummings as Hadrian, the leader of the Old Builders
• Kari Wahlgren as Mevia the Enforcer
• Jamie Alcroft as Otto, a person who prefers to ensure that the rules are followed.

Other characters

• Melissa Hutchison as Isa, the Founder of Sky City
• Ashly Burch as Cassie Rose, the person who reveals herself as the White Pumpkin
• William West as the narrator, Sigge, and the fanboy
• Gina Keali'inohomoku Bowes as Maya, Ivy, and the fangirl
• Phillip LaMarr as Gill, a member of the Ocelots, later rebranded into the Blaze Rods.
• Matthew Mercer as Aiden, Otis, Schoolboy, TNT Dustin, and Griefer #2
• Jason Topolski as an usher, Disco Mickey, Griefer #5, and PAMA
• Erin Yvette as the announcer of the EnderCon building competition, Mabel, Farmer Gloria, and Griefer #1
• Lydia Winters as herself
• Owen Jones as himself
• Ursula Taherian as Nohr, a griefer of Boom Town.
• Samuel Riegel as Griefer #3
• Michael Gambino as Calvin and Griefer #4
• A.J. Riebli III as the announcer of the Death Bowl
• Sean Astin as Reginald, the loyal Captain of the Guard
• James Meskimen as Milo, the leader of the Build Club
• Stampy as himself
• Stacy Plays as herself
• DanTDM as himself
• LDShadowLady as herself
• CaptainSparklez as himself
• Adam Harrington as TorqueDawg
• Roger L. Jackson as the White Pumpkin
• Audrey Wasilewski as Em
• Julianne Buescher as Nell and Clutch
• John Sanders as Facemeat, one of the Gladiators
• Christopher B. Duncan as Slab, one of the Gladiators

Additional voices

• Ashley Albert
• Will Beckman
• Katrina Carras
• Shelly Shenoy
• Arthur von Nagel

Development

Box art for The Complete Adventure.

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The interactive storytellers at Telltale are giving players the chance to explore their own unique interpretation of the Minecraft universe. They've crafted a story that follows the logic of Minecraft, but still manages to feel original. It's actually pretty funny too. And the pig is adorable.

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— Owen Jones

The idea for Minecraft: Story Mode came around the end of 2012 when Telltale was engaged in work for Tales from the Borderlands, an episodic series based on the Borderlands series. The idea of developing stories around other established video game franchises led the team to brainstorm the idea for a Minecraft-related game, given that the game was essentially a "blank canvas" for storytelling, according to Job Stauffer, and would create an interesting challenge. Telltale began negotiations with Mojang Studios at GDC 2013, and began work on the title shortly thereafter. Stauffer noted that Microsoft's acquisition of Mojang Studios was not a factor in the game's development, as their interaction with Mojang Studios began well before Microsoft's offers.

Telltale opted to create a new main character of Jesse for Minecraft: Story Mode instead of using the default "Steve" and "Alex" characters from Minecraft, feeling that they did not want to attempt to rewrite how players already saw these characters in the game. Other primary characters in the game are loosely designed around archetypes of common player-characters for Minecraft, such as those who engage in building, fighting, or griefing other players. The game does not attempt to provide any background for some concepts in Minecraft, such as the creepers, to avoid the various fan interpretations of such elements, though they will be elements of the game's story.

Stauffer stated that the game's story was intended to be family-friendly, similar to The Goonies or Ghostbusters; their intended content would be equivalent to a PG-13 or PEGI-12 rating. A number of the voice actors are alumni of such films of the 1980s such as Corey Feldman who starred in The Goonies, and the game includes various references to these types of films. Stauffer reflected that while Telltale's more recent games like The Walking Dead were more mature stories, their original adventure games like Sam & Max and Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People were written as family-friendly, and that they consider their approach to Story Mode as "part of our DNA". The story was written to be accessible both to existing players of Minecraft – both novice and advanced players – and to new audiences outside of the game.

Minecraft: Story Mode was formally announced in December 2014 as a collaboration project between Mojang Studios and Telltale Games; the announcement was presented as an interactive adventure game named Info Quest II. Its first trailer was released during the MINECON convention in early July 2015. Telltale confirmed that they would release the game for the Wii U, representing the first time a Minecraft game has been released on a Nintendo platform.

On August 24, 2015, Winters posted on X (formerly Twitter) that she had completed voiceover work for the game but did not specify whether she voiced a character or did some narration for the game.

On August 28, 2015, it was announced that the player will be able to choose the appearance of the main character, Jesse.

On October 7, 2015, Anadel, an atmospheric folk band based in Napa, California, announced that they had composed the music for the game.

Episodes

The game is divided into five separately sold episodes, released in intervals between 2 weeks and 3 months.

A Season Pass, which bundled all five episodes together, launched on October 27, 2015 with a physical copy subtitled Season Pass Disc releasing the same day. That physical release includes the first episode on the disc and grants access to the other four episodes via download. However, downloading episodes no longer works for the physical releases on Xbox 360 and PC.

№	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original release
1	"The Order of the Stone"	Dennis Lenart and Graham Ross	Michael Choung and Laura Jacqmin	October 13, 2015
2	"Assembly Required"	Jason Latino	Joshua Rubin, Eric Stirpe and Tim Williams	October 27, 2015
3	"The Last Place You Look"	Jonathan Stauder	Michael Choung, Laura Jacqmin, Eric Stirpe and Tim Williams	November 24, 2015
4	"A Block and a Hard Place"	Graham Ross and Rebekah Gamin-Arcovitch	Brad Kane and Laura Jacqmin	December 17, 2015
5	"Order Up!"	Jonathan Stauder	Eric Stirpe and Tim Williams	March 29, 2016

Supplemental episodes

On March 22, 2016, Telltale Games announced that three episodes will be released throughout 2016 as downloadable content. These episodes were not part of the Season Pass and as such were sold separately on their own or as a DLC bundle named Adventure Pass. In order to download these episodes, one must have at least one episode from the main series.

A bundle encompassing both the Season and Adventure Passes launched on October 25, 2016. The physical release of said bundle, subtitled The Complete Adventure, includes all eight episodes on the disc or cartridge without requiring a download.

№	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original release
6	"A Portal to Mystery"	Sean Manning	Eric Stirpe and Tim Williams	June 7, 2016
7	"Access Denied"	Rebekah Gamin-Arcovitch and Jason Pyke	Luke McMullen and Eric Stirpe	July 26, 2016
8	"A Journey's End?"	Vahram Antonian	Eric Stirpe, Yale Hannon and Erica Harrell	September 13, 2016

System requirements

According to Minecraft: Story Mode's front page on Steam, the system requirements are as follows.

Minimum

Component
Minimum version	Windows XP SP3	OS X Lion (10.7)
Processor	Intel Core2 Duo @ 2 GHz or equivalent	Intel @ 2.3 GHz
Memory (RAM)	3 GB or more	4 GB or more
Storage space	8 GB available space
Graphics drivers	AMD or NVIDIA card with 512 MB or more
DirectX version	11 or higher	N/A
Sound card	DirectX 11 or later	N/A
Notes	Not recommended for Intel integrated graphics drivers.	Not recommended for Intel integrated graphics, Mac mini, or early-generation MacBook models.

Recommended

Component
Processor	Intel Core2 Duo @ 2.3 GHz or equivalent
Memory (RAM)	4 GB or more
Graphics drivers	AMD or NVIDIA card with 1024 MB or more

Supported languages

According to the Steam page, the following languages are available in the game:

Languages	Interface	Full Audio	Subtitles
English	Yes	Yes	Yes
European French	Yes	No	Yes
German	Yes	No	Yes
European Spanish	Yes	No	Yes
Russian	Yes	No	Yes
Simplified Chinese	Yes	No	Yes
European Portuguese	Yes	No	Yes

Quotes

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We've worked closely with the amazing team at Mojang to ensure this story is a natural fit for the Minecraft world fans already know and love. As Jesse, players will steer their own path through a tale of adventure and survival; all brought to life by an all-star cast. Through Telltale's choice-based gameplay and a story spanning from the Nether to the Farlands, the End, and beyond, we can't wait for fans to experience this new take on the beloved world of Minecraft.

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— Kevin Bruner, CEO of Telltale Games

Trivia

• The Netflix version was planned to have an exclusive alternate ending for A Block and a Hard Place in which Reuben survived the wither storm attack, however the idea was scrapped as a result of Telltale's bankruptcy. Future episodes were intended to be altered in order to include Reuben as well.
  • The idea of Reuben surviving was pitched for Season Two and as an early idea for a potential third season but ultimately went unused.
  • Early versions of the game were planning on having swear words, but this was ultimately cut out.

Gallery

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  Minecraft: Story Mode
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  Minecraft: Story Mode Netflix key art
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  Minecraft: Story Mode Google Play app icon
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  Minecraft: Story Mode Windows icon
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  Jesse
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  Other versions of Jesse
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  Minecraft: Story Mode Netflix key art
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  Minecraft: Story Mode Netflix logo
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  Screenshot from the Steam page
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  Screenshot from the Steam page
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  Screenshot from the Steam page
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  Game boxes
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  Premiere image
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  Ad for shirts with Story Mode logos on them.
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  Some mobs playing Story Mode.

See also

• Minecraft: Story Mode on Wikipedia