Markus Persson, aka Notch, confirmed in a Twitter poll that he has plans for a sequel…

Notch’s project was a roguelike twist on the classic first-person dungeon crawler games (like Eye of the Beholder, Grimrock, or Wizardry). On December 31st, Notch published a Twitter poll asking if he should continue in this direction, or if he should change it for his next project. He thought there were people who liked his work, but were not interested in retro nostalgia, and would prefer a spiritual continuation of Minecraft… and he wanted to capitalize on that.

Honest and legitimate request for feedback for once:

The new game I’m passionately working on is currently set to be a traditional roguelike (i.e. ADOM, nethack, etc) mixed with a tile based first person dungeon crawler (ie Legend of Grimrock (esp 2), Eye of the Beholder)

But…

— notch (@notch) January 1, 2025

With that vote, he confirmed Minecraft 2, and later elaborated on it in another tweet: “I basically announced Minecraft 2. I thought maybe people ACTUALLY want me to make another game that’s super similar to the first one, and I love working on games again. I don’t really care which game I make first (or even if I make more), but I do know that I’m making one, so I figured I’d be absolutely willing to give it an honest shot in the form of a spiritual successor to Minecraft and put up a poll about it. My intentions are to be clear and honest and say that spiritual successors are usually kind of washed-up or tragic. The things I’m afraid my next game will be anyway, and I’m trying to push myself to avoid. So why not do the thing that people want and are willing to give me MORE money for, somehow?

I intend for the money to be spent for good, but my God, I have learned that I fail a lot. Winning is failing until you make yourself successful. Oh, and I also value being a man of my word, so I also intend to do this in a way that in no way tries to sneakily infringe on the incredible work that the Mojang team is doing, and that Microsoft is successfully doing the Microsoft sh*ttification about. And I respect them for that. It’s their job. And from what I understand, they let the studio do things their way, which seems very fair to me,” Notch said.

I basically announced minecraft 2.

I thought that maybe people ACTUALLY do want me to make another game that’s super similar to the first one, and I’m loving working on games again.

I don’t super duper care exactly which game I make first (or even if I make more), but I do know…

— notch (@notch) January 3, 2025

Notch sold Mojang to Microsoft 11 years ago in 2014 for $2.5 billion, and they’ve since gone their separate ways…

Source: PCGamer