Summary
Less than a week after announcing his intent to create a spiritual successor toMinecraft, Notch has indefinitely pushed those plans back to focus on Levers and Chests.
Ever since it first started life as Cave Game back in 2009, Minecraft hascemented itself as one of the biggest games of all time and a true powerhouse when it comes to indies. In that decade-and-a-half,it’s also been continuously updated with new content and features, and has looked to stick around as it is permanently with no sequel in sight.
While Mojang’s version of Minecraft seems like it’ll always remain as it is, it looks like the game’s original creator, Notch, wanted to take things further and basically build a sequel to it. The controversial former figurehead of Minecraftannounced his intent to develop what would essentially be Minecraft 2 less than a week ago, but it seems that plans have already been pushed back.
Minecraft Creator Puts Spiritual Sequel Plans On Ice
As reported by 80 Level, Notch recently took to Twitter to announce thathe and his team at Bitshift Entertainment were no longer going to be pursuing a Minecraft sequeland that they were instead going to focus on development for Levers and Chests. Notch said that the tipping point was “PC Gamer saying it seemed interesting”.
For those that don’t know,Levers and Chests is a first-person roguelike with dungeon-crawling mechanicsthat was announced alongside Bitshift Entertainment back in 2024.
Notch further elaborated on his choice to focus on Lever and Chests when a fan replied to his tweet saying that they felt “betrayed”.The Minecraft creator reassured fans that a spiritual successor would be “way less fun” than Levers and Chestsand noted that they’re usually just sad nostalgia dumps.
When asked if Minecraft 2 is still going to be a thing one day,Notch said that fans will have to ask Microsoft about that. It seems that the result of the Twitter poll is also why the team isn’t pursuing a sequel, asNotch pointed out that they would have given it a shot if the results were “significantly more biased” towards the successor.
