Minecraft is a sandbox video game first released in 2011 and is the single best-selling video game of all time with sales of over 180 million copies, across all platforms, to date. Players explore an intentionally blocky, pixelated 3D world, to discover and extract raw materials, craft tools, build structures or earthworks. Depending on the game mode, players can fight computer-controlled monsters and either cooperate with or compete against other players in the same world.