The game presents players with five randomly distributed face-up piles of Resource Cards. With two players, it plays in about 15-20 minutes. After playing a few games with my 9-year-old daughter, I would say that age rating is just about right, give or take a year. Minecraft Card Game is designed for 2-4 players and is intended for ages 8 and up. Yes, Minecraft Card Game? (Man I hate that question mark, so hereafter I leave it out.) Your friends inevitably will clarify and say, “Minecraft Card Game?”
The name is perhaps the anticipated reply when you tell your friends on game night that you’ll be playing a Minecraft card game. The actual name of the game is Minecraft Card Game?, just to make writing and reading about it confusing. Note that the name of the game includes a question mark. Neither is my friend, Chris, who is 50 years old, and with whom I’ve spent countless hours online exploring, building, exploding and falling to our deaths in Mojang’s less-than-visually-stunning virtual sandbox environment.Īs a fan of Minecraft and a board game geek (see what I did there?), I just had to try Mojang’s Minecraft Card Game. I’ve been playing Minecraft on the Xbox 360 - and now the Xbox One - for several years now, and that’s saying something, because I’m not an 8-year-old. Home › Reviews › A Review of the Minecraft Card Game?
