With Minecraft’s skyrocketing popularity in the late 2010s, Mojang partnered with Telltale Games to create Minecraft: Story Mode.
Releasing episodes from 2015 to 2017, Minecraft: Story Mode was an episodic adventure game that used a point-and-click interface similar to Telltale’s adaptations of The Walking Dead and game of thrones.
Players followed the story of a player-created character named Jesse, who tries to save the world from various threats with their friends. Both seasons of the game were moderately successful, but have since been made unavailable on many digital outlets due to the shutdown of Telltale Games in 2018.
Minecraft: Story Mode – Additional information and why the game was removed from the markets
Minecraft: Story Mode was a significant departure from the original game’s roots, focusing on a choice-based and character-based narrative of the world as opposed to the usual harvesting and building mechanics of Minecraft.
In season one, players followed Jesse and his friends in search of the Order of the Stone, who once saved the Overworld from the blight of a danger known as the Wither Storm.
The second season finds a reformed order under Jesse and their friends who embark on a new adventure centered around a strange prismarine gauntlet and a shadowy antagonist known to most as “The Admin”.
The last episode of Season 2 was released in 2017, and Netflix even picked up Minecraft: Story Mode on its streaming service. However, in 2018, Telltale’s financial troubles began to pile up.
In November, Telltale would shut down and begin the process of removing its games from digital marketing venues such as the PlayStation Store and Xbox LIVE Marketplace.
Many of these games were removed from the list due to the nature of their licensing agreements, as Telltale had used many popular intellectual properties in their games, such as game of thrones, Batman, The Walking Deadand Borderlands. When Telltale went bankrupt, they said they had to pull those games, including Minecraft: Story Mode, due to expiring licensing rights.
On May 31, 2019, Mojang released an update detailing the timeline for players to download the game before it was pulled from digital markets:
“On behalf of the publisher, Minecraft: Story Mode – A Telltale Games Series, Seasons 1 and 2 will no longer be supported on June 25, 2019. If you have purchased these seasons, please download all remaining episodes before the service is interrupted in June.”
Since its removal, Minecraft: Story Mode is largely only accessible to players who already own the game or those who use third-party sites or software to download it.
There have been few words about the adventures of Jesse and their friends that continue. However, with ownership of the game still under Microsoft and Mojang, Minecraft players who enjoyed the adventure title should never say never.
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