The Unfortunate Downfall Of Minecraft: Story Mode

Minecraft: Story mode is a point and click game made by telltale games based off the game Minecraft. The game was super popular when it was released in 2015, but since then, minecraft: story mode can no longer be purchased on any store, the game is gone forever.

What happened to Minecraft story mode?
What happened to Telltale games?

This video essay is all about The Unfortunate Downfall Of Minecraft: Story Mode.

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[chowb]

I worked at telltale till the closure. Minecraft storymode 1 and 2 were a lot of the teams favorite project to work on so it was great to see it resonated with a lot of people.

[GrzegorzSobkowicz]

For me Minecraft: Story Mode had one big flaw, it was *one story.*
I watched playthroughs and after that there was no point in playing the game (which I realized after buying it).
The game starts the same for everyone, people make different choices only to then either go through the same path with some details changed, or to go through different paths that later meet and go through the same path from there.
Since there is only one ending to each episode you don't need to play the game after watching one playthrough.

[detective_darknesson]

It's sad, but one man said... "Nothing built can last forever". This line is the best description of Minecraft: Story Mode's fate.

[FractsidusHail]

I think this is so incredibly sad. I personally think this was one of the best things I've ever watched/played. All of the plot points made sense, all of the lines were catchy and perfectly fit the situations, the characters were intricate and you felt like you had a connection to every one of them... it was such a masterpiece, and you can clearly see how much work Telltale put into it. I'm truly sad that it's gone, and still hope for a come-back

[NoteFromFamilyGuy]

I remember playing this and getting so excited seeing Stampy and DanTDM in the same game. Absolute nostalgia

[darkbooger]

As the old saying goes: "Nothing built can last forever"

[danmarkers]

"You can only play the game if you own it and already have it downloaded"
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[tadbitsketch]

This game shaped me a lot as a person. I became interested in gaming and storytelling probably because of MCSM. I still draw fanart and come up with silly little AUs to this day. I used to listen to the soundtrack to get me through online school. I read and wrote crappy fanfics. I started posting art online, all because of this game. This game was a big part of many people's lives, and my only hope is for it to be revived. Maybe one day it'll happen.

[winsonwieny]

Seeing all the YouTubers together in the murder mansion mystery story blew 12 y/o me away. Unironically one of my most memorable crossover stories

[ItsMistt]

I remember the good old days when we used to watch youtubers play this especially techno.

[MotasemG]

"Nothing built can last forever."

I miss this game :'(

[Lifelez]

I never played the game, since watching it on youtube essentially gave you the whole experience but it was still fun to see people/YouTubers play it, especially since some of them actually got featured in the game.
Sad to see what happened with this game and the studio which produced it.

[ariannasv]

I never got to play it, but I watched YouTubers play it. Yeah, it was kinda cheesy at times and certainly intended more for a younger audience, and maybe my younger teenager brain was more easily entertained back then but it genuinely seemed fun and very entertaining. The wither storm was absolutely terrifying but that and everything else just blended so well into the concepts surrounding Minecraft. I wish I had been able to play it back then, and I hope that the game gets re-released someday.

[Im_ARock]

Hopefully Minecraft: Story Mode will at least be available on steam again. If it doesn't, it isn't really a big problem for me since I already bought the gam before it was unlisted from steam, but it would be nice for other people to be able to just buy the game on steam without having to buy it from a store. The new Telltale Games could at least do that :P But great video! It's nice to know where Minecraft: Story Mode went after not hearing about it for, like, 4 years.

[ceg]

There are some really cute parts in the game. Like when you make the stone sword, you can make a lever. If you do, you keep it until EPISODE 4, when you actually use it.

[Aiden]

The saddest thing is if season 3 comes out, Ivor wouldn’t be a main character in it..

[masterpiece]

I actually have a physical copy of Minecraft Story Mode Season 1 and 2 sitting in just the other room. I loved those games so much, and I loved *most* of the characters (The intern? What was his name? I didn’t care for him. How did he even get to the admins domain while being chased by the Ender Colossus?

[StarrChild.]

What is so heart breaking is that beneath the big names for the audience pull, there was a dev team really working on passion projects. The Wolf Among Us is such an obscure series for anyone to include. Yes the Fable comics were great, but they didn't have the attention and pull bigger comics or series did. Telltale pulled a really obscure title and made a decent game (the issues with the entire rewriting of the game being ignored). Same with their early titles. As much as I loved the Walking Dead games, the success of it really just put the studio into a stand still of content. It was the same thing over and over with a different skin.
I have high hopes for the new Telltale studios and hope some good news can be brought to Minecraft story mode. Despite how much people clowned on it when it came out, it did it's job in being an entertaining play for kids and adults.

[Kloyster]

This game is so nostalgic to me, I remember watching YouTubers play throughs and it was so interesting to look at the different outcomes of what you say and the great characters and storylines, I prefer S1 but S2 was really good too!

I will forever remember this game.

[hailstorm]

This game and its sequel were and are still one of my favorites. Seeing my favorite YouTubers in a game together was amazing to me. I still like to come back to it every once in a while and watch youtubers who were the game play through it