Minecraft Dungeons
Fight your way through an exciting action-adventure game, inspired by classic dungeon crawlers and set in the Minecraft universe!
Action AdventureAction RPGRole-Playing
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- Released
- 2020
- Developer
- Mojang Studios
- Platforms
- 4 systems
- Critics
- Not scored
- Steam Deck
- unsupported
- Download
- 6 GB
What is Minecraft Dungeons?
Fight your way through an exciting action-adventure game, inspired by classic dungeon crawlers and set in the Minecraft universe!
Description as published by the developer on its own store page, read 30 August 2026. It is marketing copy, not our assessment.
The record
| First released | 26 May 2020 |
|---|---|
| Developer | Mojang Studios |
| Publisher | Xbox Game Studios |
| Platforms | PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch |
| Genres | Action Adventure, Action RPG, Role-Playing |
| Languages | 15 supported |
Source. Catalogue facts from Wikidata Q56884780, seeded 30 August 2026. Store data from Steam, read 30 August 2026.
How was Minecraft Dungeons received?
Method. Player figures are Steam's own totals for the PC version, read 30 August 2026. The Metacritic score is the one Steam publishes on its store page and can lag the site itself. Neither is our opinion. We have not published a review of this game.
Accessibility
Seeing
None declared
Hearing
None declared
Input
- Full controller support
Difficulty
None declared
Method. Features the publisher declared on its own store page. A declaration is a floor, not a review.
What does it support?
| Capability | Support |
|---|---|
| Controller | full support |
| Cloud saves | No |
| Cross-platform play | Yes |
| Mod support | No official workshop |
| Online play | Yes |
| In-game purchases | No |
| Steam Deck | unsupported |
| Download size | 6 GB |
| Add-on content | 12 DLC listed |
| Age gate | None |
Method. Read from the publisher's Steam listing on 30 August 2026. Describes the PC version. Console versions differ.
What does it cost?
Steam price in US dollars, read 30 August 2026. Prices move hourly and vary by region. Check the current price.
Is Minecraft Dungeons worth it?
90% of 19,205 Steam reviews are positive, which Steam rates Very Positive. It costs $9.99 on Steam, on sale from $19.99.
That is the data, not a verdict for sale: whether it is worth it depends on the price you pay and what you want. Players do report problems — see the reported-problems section below before buying. We have not published our own review of this game.
How long is Minecraft Dungeons? How long to beat it
Total play time for Minecraft Dungeons is about 35.4 hours to do everything, and around 5.6 hours to reach the end of the main story. These are player-submitted times from HowLongToBeat, not our own, shown with the number of players behind each.
| How you play | Hours | Players logged |
|---|---|---|
| Just the main story: straight through the critical path | 5.6h | 350 |
| Main + the extras: story plus the side content most people do | 12.9h | 224 |
| Completionist: everything: 100% the game | 35.4h | 66 |
At its current price of $9.99, beating the main story works out to about $1.78 per hour. That is the price divided by the hours, a value read and not a verdict: a longer game costs less per hour, which is not the same as being the better game.
Source: HowLongToBeat community submissions, read 2026-10-19.
Minecraft Dungeons system requirements
The minimum requirements from Minecraft Dungeons's Steam page. These are what it takes to launch and be playable, not to run at high settings.
| Memory | 8 GB RAM (other games at this level) |
|---|---|
| Processor | Core i5 2.8GHz |
| Graphics | NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 · runs on a low-end GPU |
| Storage | 6 GB (more games this size) |
| System | 64-bit OS required |
Can your PC run it? Check Minecraft Dungeons against your exact GPU, CPU and RAM.
Where Minecraft Dungeons sits on the grid
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Players. The share of Steam reviews marked positive, pulled toward the catalogue average in proportion to how few reviews stand behind it. A game with 200 reviews moves a long way toward the average; one with 200,000 barely moves at all. Without this a title sitting at 100 percent on nine reviews outranks Half-Life 2 at 98 percent on 278,000.
Popularity. A blend of two things that are not the same. Audience is how many people wrote a Steam review, which is a floor on how many played it. Reach is how many language editions of Wikipedia document the game, which is cultural footprint rather than sales. A game can score high on one and low on the other: a huge free-to-play title has audience without reach, and a landmark console exclusive has reach without a Steam audience at all. Where both exist they are averaged; where only one does, that one carries it.
- Multi-platform
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How positions are decided
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- A position is not an endorsement. It says how a game was received and what it costs, not that we recommend it. Where we do recommend something, it carries a written review with a name on it.
- Fetched from live third-party data. Player sentiment from Steam, critic aggregates as published on store pages, prices checked hourly, attention from Wikipedia. Each figure carries its source and the date it was read, and we do not adjust any of them.
Estimated sales for Minecraft Dungeons
These are estimates, not reported figures. Mojang Studios has not published unit sales for Minecraft Dungeons, and nobody outside the company can measure them. What follows is arithmetic on the review count, with the method printed below so you can check it or reject it.
How this was calculated
Steam sales track review counts closely enough that dividing one by the other across games with published figures gives a usable multiplier. This is the standard method for estimating sales from outside a publisher.
| Reviews on Steam | 19,205 |
|---|---|
| Sales per review | 30 to 60 |
| List price | $19.99 |
| Assumed average selling price | 33% to 66% of list |
What this cannot tell you
Steam only. Console, Epic, GOG and retail sales are not in here. For a game that sold heavily on PlayStation this is a fraction of the real number.
The band is wide because the method is imprecise. Review rates vary with price, genre, launch era and how insistently a game asks. Published analyses put the ratio between 30 and 60 for paid games, and we show the whole range rather than picking a point in it.
The owner estimate above measures something else. SteamSpy counts accounts that have the game, which includes free weekends, bundles, giveaways and gifts. It sits higher than a sales figure for that reason, and the two are not alternative answers to the same question.
Revenue is the shakiest line. It assumes an average selling price well below list because most copies move in sales, and it ignores regional pricing, refunds, key resellers and whatever deal the publisher actually has with Valve. Treat it as an order of magnitude, not a figure.
If Mojang Studios publishes a real number we will use that instead and say where it came from. Our editorial policy covers how we handle figures we cannot verify.
Minecraft Dungeons price & deals: is it on sale?
We have one reading so far: $9.99 on 30 August 2026. Prices are checked daily from here, and this becomes a chart once there is more than one point to join. A single observation is a price, not a history.
Latest Minecraft Dungeons updates & patch notes
Pulled from Minecraft Dungeons's own Steam feed on 5 September 2026. Posts marked as from the studio were written by the developer; the rest are articles Steam syndicated from elsewhere. Every one links to its source.
What readers say about Minecraft Dungeons
Reviews written by people who have played it. These are separate from the GamingPickz Score and are never averaged into it: that score comes from thousands of Steam reviews with a sample-size correction, and a handful of unverified ratings would distort it rather than improve it.
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Problems players report
We read the 300 most recent negative Steam reviews of Minecraft Dungeons on 30 August 2026 and counted what they mention. These are complaints, not confirmed defects: we have not reproduced any of them, and a review describes one person's machine. What the counts tell you is which problems more than one person ran into.
- Crashes and freezes11 of 300 (4%)
Frequent delayed audio and crashing when changing equipment
Steam review, 31 December 2025 · 1 hours played · 2 readers marked it helpfulLots of bugs, even full crash or unsolvable levels.
Steam review, 28 January 2026 · 30 hours played · 1 readers marked it helpful
A further 6 reviews call the game buggy or broken without saying how, which is why they are counted separately rather than assigned to a theme. Counted by keyword across review text, so a review discussing two problems is counted under both. Read the reviews yourself.
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Where Minecraft Dungeons appears
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Common questions about Minecraft Dungeons
What platforms is Minecraft Dungeons on?
Minecraft Dungeons is available on PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch. It first released in 2020.
How much does Minecraft Dungeons cost?
$9.99 on Steam in the United States, read on 30 August 2026. Prices move often and vary by region, so check the store before buying.
Do players recommend Minecraft Dungeons?
90% of 19,205 Steam reviews are positive, which Steam rates Very Positive. That is players rating it, not our review. We have not published a review of this game.
Does Minecraft Dungeons work on Steam Deck?
Valve rates Minecraft Dungeons as unsupported on the Steam Deck, from its own testing.
How big is the Minecraft Dungeons download?
6 GB on PC, from the storage requirement on its Steam listing. Console versions differ.
Who made Minecraft Dungeons?
Minecraft Dungeons was developed by Mojang Studios and published by Xbox Game Studios.
Is Minecraft Dungeons worth it in 2026?
90% of 19,205 Steam reviews are positive (Very Positive), and it is $9.99 on steam. That is the strongest signal we hold; "worth it" depends on the price you pay and what you want, so weigh the sentiment against the current price above.
Is Minecraft Dungeons on sale?
Yes, right now. Minecraft Dungeons is $9.99 on Steam, down from its $19.99 list price (about 50% off), read on 30 August 2026. Prices move, so check the store.
What are the system requirements for Minecraft Dungeons?
At minimum, Minecraft Dungeons needs 8 GB RAM, a Core i5 2.8GHz, a NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660, 6 GB of storage, from its Steam listing. That is what it takes to launch and be playable, not to run at high settings. Check it against your own PC on the can-I-run page.
How long does it take to beat Minecraft Dungeons?
about 5.6 hours for the main story, 12.9 hours with the main extras, 35.4 hours to complete everything, from HowLongToBeat's player-submitted times. These are community medians, so your own run may be shorter or longer.