The Unfortunate Downfall Of Minecraft: Story Mode 

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

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

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.

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

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

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

I feel that after its downfall, people didn't really play S2, which I thought was really good because they made massive improvements with a storyline that could be fun to play and not just a waste of time after you watched someone play it.

Besides Minecraft itself, this is one of the most nostalgic games for me. They were able to create a spin off of the actual game with a story that still perfectly captured the feeling of the original game, and the first season especially showed some of the best aspects and lore of Minecraft. The visuals were extremely well animated but never fully deviated from the original designs of Minecraft. And in the first five or so episodes, seeing the characters traverse through different biomes and lands reminded me so much of how it is to explore the immense world of Minecraft as a player. No matter what anyone says, I will always appreciate this awesome game!

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.

I never got to play it, but I watched RU-vidrs 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.

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

"You can only play the game if you own it and already have it downloaded" Pirates: Allow us to introduce ourselves

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.

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.

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.

"Nothing built can last forever." I miss this game :'(

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?

I'm not gonna lie, I'm so sad this game died. My mom bought it for me years ago...on her Xbox account. I'm gonna be so sad when I have to move out and can't play it anymore....

This game left such an impact on me. I was making fanfictions on it two years after the game ended from 2019- 2021. I still make them privately and no one reads them like they used to two years ago but I still miss all of it. I miss the whole game itself and all the people I met because of it.

i loved story mode so much that when i found out that telltales games shut down i was genuinely in tears

This game is literally my childhood. I also basically learned english with it. Of course it's not a quality game and so on. But it will just always have a special place in my heart. I remember playing season one over and over again, over ten or fifteen times, because my mom's ipad was too old to download the next one. When she upgraded her device i literally jumped on season two and i loved it as well.

I never got to truly play *Minecraft: Story Mode.* At the time of release, I was still a kid raised by super protective yet supporting parents. I didn't have any money of my own, so the best I could do was to absorb it through RU-vid, and I fell in love. You could tell everything was made with love, from the story to every block placed that was meant to create this new world. (My personal favorite episode is The White Pumpkin one, where it's a murder mystery with iconic Minecraft RU-vidrs of the time, such as DanTDM, CaptainSparklez, and Stampylongnose/head.) Everything about the game yelled out "We freaking love this game, so we're going to make the best game we can to show it." I also really loved how they incorporated Minecraft's features like the Command Block, Admin privileges, Structure Blocks, and even Different Servers. I only wish people saw what I saw. Seeing M:SM just be forgotten felt so sad, since all of the heart the game exuded was seemingly suddenly just abandoned. I really hope something with the same feel as Story Mode releases to critical acclaim, and can inspire more people to become storytellers in their own right.

I never played the game, since watching it on youtube essentially gave you the whole experience but it was still fun to see people/RU-vidrs 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.

I remember watching youtubers play this and I wanted to buy the other chapters so badly, it's sad it had to go but definitely made a lot of memories

This game was my childhood. It's so sad to see its downfall. I'm gonna replay it one of these days.

It's so strange seeing someone still talk about Minecraft Story Mode today, but to be honest I still play it once in a while nowadays and also I listen to the game's music pretty often (yes I like the soundtrack a lot, well not every single song but a lot especially from season 2)

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.

I remember getting the season pass edition of this game for my Xbox 360 for Christmas of 2016, and absolutely loved it! I remember spending hours in my room playing the game, time pasting by as a fly as I invested myself into the episodes of the game. I don't have the disc no longer, but I have the game online, as well as the first episodes. Ah, old memories...

This was certainly a huge part of my tweens. The joy I felt when I saw my favorite RU-vidrs upload playthroughs of this game was like no other; from PopularMMOs to DanTDM. It took Minecraft and gave it a story (before making theories on it's "hidden" lore was a big thing on YT), and me and so many other people ate it up, made our own stories, tons of fan art, and so on. Now that I'm older, it's much easier to see it as "cringey" and make fun of some poor writing decisions and dated quality, but I still very much enjoy it. It's charming in it's own way and will always be big part of my tween and teens. I also feel I grew with the game in a sense. Especially seeing how the RU-vidrs I watched playing it have changed since then... PopularMMOs is no longer an iconic duo, Dan has two kids, RTGame (although I watched him more recently than the rest as an older teen) just got hit with massive age restrictions and may have to leave YT, Technoblade passed away... and so many more. It's a very memorable game for good or bad

I have this funny little memory of this game: My sister was playing the part where there’s the final Wither Storm fight, and she got to the end. I was casually talking to her, and at one point she looked back at me while Reuben was lying on the ground, and when she looked back she saw smoke and a pork chop. The cry afterwards that is something I’ll never forget

My most memorable moment of Story Mode HAD to be the Witherstorm, I'm surprised they were able to come up with such a monstrosity to begin with!

This game is so nostalgic to me, I remember watching RU-vidrs 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.

I for one, really did enjoy it. It wasn't the best, but it was enjoyable. I actually did a playthrough of it on my channel. I really do hope that we do end up getting something more sometime. But it is rather interesting to me how the last season of Story Mode has a definite 'finale' feeling to it. I believe Story Mode (a port to Netflix) was the last thing that Old Telltale worked on, so it actually felt rather appropriate.

Minecraft story mode is the ultimate example of “Well, *that* happened.”

This game and its sequel were and are still one of my favorites. Seeing my favorite RU-vidrs 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

Great video! I was the audio lead for MSM for the last year or so, then I was part of that layoff period you mentioned. I was also a childhood fan of TTG so it was so cool working there for a few years! These days I am at Riot Games. I will never forget TTG or MSM! And RIP, Ivor AKA Paul Reubens!

Minecraft Story Mode is the reason I have any sort of talent when it comes to writing, and it’s been almost the main source of all my passion for storytelling since…god, I don’t even know how long. I’ve played this game over and over, again and again, and I’ve loved every second of it even as I’ve gotten older, and I’m so incredibly lucky to have bought it before it disappeared - even if I only own a digital copy, it’s one of my most prized possessions. I’m glad people still remember it :] edit: I know the game is bad, the writing goofy and dramatic, the animation flawed, the characters shallow and underdeveloped - believe me, I’m aware. But I love it anyway. You can enjoy a media you know is objectively bad, guys. That’s perfectly okay. Besides, the game got me through a dark time in my life - I’d be lying if I claimed it hasn’t influenced how I create in some form or another

9:50 The Wolf WHAT? 😳

It’s really sad, I remember when it came out and only watching till episode 2. I just recently remembered though i have it downloaded on my Xbox and I played through 1-8. I never even knew TellTale games even shut down until now, it bummed me out I wasn’t able to play 9-13. But I have hope for the future of Minecraft Story Mode.

I don’t care if the game isn’t relevant anymore I will always play it

Damn mate. I didn't know you couldn't buy Minecraft Story Mode 1 and 2 anymore glad I was able to grab them both on PS4 as a discounted bundle with the 3 DLC episodes for SM1 that weren't part of the main story for like 10$ a year before the TellTale games shut down. Also glad they are back now but they will struggle for a bit in my option with out those big name IP's like walking dead and Minecraft cause I'd bet 10 bucks most people only know them for those IP games.

For a year or two, I was obsessed with this game. Yes, I know a lot of people thought it was cringey or whatever, but I really liked the characters, and playing the game over and over helped me dismiss my anxiety, which had just started to develop strongly for me back when the game was released. It sounds stupid, but this game was my life for a while. I really loved it.

I remember after watching a dew RU-vidrs play and finish the game, me and my brother wanted to do the same so we downloaded the game and finished almost all (or all of them, can't really remember this happened ages ago) the chapters in one day, good times.

oh man, i played the whole MCSM story, from Season 1 to the second.. a looooong time ago and i loved it sad to see that it has practically dissapeared...

this thing kickstarted my creativity. if not for it I wouldn't have wrote my fanfictions. thanks to everyone who worked on that masterpiece

I actually really loved Minecraft Story Mode, it was one of my favorite Minecraft games because there’s actually a plot, relatable moments, and simple button presses, instead of just sitting down looking for diamonds hoping there’s no lava or a creeper behind you. Which reminds me, I think Season 3 would be extremely popular if they added a feature called “Hardcore” mode, where if you die, it’s Game Over and you have to start the entire episode over, but the feature is for if you want to play the episode without dying or quitting, with quick reactions to button presses

I absolutely loved minecraft story mode. When I was a kid, I even got a pig plushie and named it reuben. I couldn’t buy the game but netflix came out with an interactive minecraft story mode episode and I would replay it so many times. Its sad to see you can’t buy it but it’s nice that so many of us have fond memories of the game.

I remember back in 2015/2016 (i can't remember honestly) i got minecraft story mode as a christmas gift from my parents for me and all of my siblings. I remember playing it the most out of all my siblings. I am 16 now so at the time i was 9/10. I remember loving it. I only got around to playing one season and a couple episodes in the second season, but I had watched playthroughs of the entire game. I loved all the different stories and characters in it, honestly.

It’s just sad that this wholesome game company relied entirely on money and other companies. It just shows what money can do I guess. I loved this series with all of my heart. It was my childhood game. So unfortunate.

I remember people giving TT, Microsoft, and Mojang so much flak for making a story based Minecraft game. I was pretty upset about it myself, but I also happened to be an easily influenced 10 year old lol. I eventually came around to trying it myself as a "joke" and ended up really liking it! MCSM actually got me into drawing comics because I wanted to write my own stories with these characters. For as silly as the story could be at times, Minecraft Story Mode will always hold a special place in my heart.

I remember playing only ever the first episode of season 1 back when it first came out with my uncle. I enjoyed it, but it was one of the only Telltale series I never got to finish. I was planning on coming back to it one day but got so sidetracked with different games now 7 years later its sad to know it's not even available anymore it was such a bizarre take to minecraft seeing it in the Telltale formula but it definitely worked really well. Telltale really did make some great games back then, and now that their back, I'm sure they'll make even more.

I remember I loved this game so much! I was obsessed with the game, even though I only got to play season 1 😢 Really hope they can bring the game back🎉

I played both games and loved it so much. I remember in ep 4 I spent an actual HOUR deciding on what armour to choose. In season 2, I had a glitch where all my choices were the opposite of what I choose, I still got through the game though and it gave me some of the best memories.

After I heard the whole part where Steve and the lore was changed, I recollected my personal fanfic I made of minecraft... it's mostly about the Origins mod with hundreds of others, but there were a bunch of kingdoms that were about that certain origin. One of the Easter eggs in that fanfic is that the king of the human origin is Steve. And Alex was the captain of the guards of that zone, And there will be the Canon Herobrine in there too (I'm talking about the one that randomly stalks you in the game, not the one that's like a god)

I was in the fandom in its heydey. Pretty well known as a fanfic author, too. For me, it was never really the game itself that sucked me in, since the writing is...Not Good. It was a cast of characters that I could easily adapt to different situations and a really good, tight-knit fandom. It took me a while to find a new fandom with the same energy.

One of the best games I ever played in my entire life. So sad the game has been removed from the store. The new generation will never be able to play this masterpiece.

Rest in Peace, Minecraft Story Mode. You will be remembered…

It's quite unfortunate that the Revival of Minecraft didn't give Story Mode a big boost, in my opinion it deserved more, it introduced so many cool concepts, ideas and characters, im sad very few people remember it nowadays.

i remember back in 2016 i would play this over and over again it was just that good i was sad to see it go

So sad that the game was removed from shops. I remember playing mcsm at nights (I was around 12 years old) and afterwards watching different RU-vidrs’ playthroughs… Now I still have full second season on my old iPhone 6s, and right now I decided to re-play this game to get some nostalgia

I absolutely love this game. I remember playing it all the time back then, usually on ios. But when they shut down, the ios app would only work for a little bit of time after, and the only other device I had mcsm on was the xbox360, on ios I had both seasons and now I only had season 1. And then my dad was tinkering with stuff, (i think trying to make space for new games) and accidentally removed episode 8. Its okay though, at least i have episodes 1-7.

Wow I totally forgot this was a thing. It honestly had a surprisingly good cast like Patton Oswalt, Ashley Johnson, Pee-Wee Herman himself Paul Reubens, even Dee Bradley Baker did noise for the Pig. Not to mention they go RU-vidrs like CaptainSparkels, DanTDM, and some others. Honestly the first season is one of the hidden gems from Telltale’s catalogue

i got the disc, but not the seasons and episodes.. wish i could still play it honestly cause i never got to finish this masterpiece

I have fond memories of me and my friends playing Tell Tale games all at the same time while discussing our decisions. They will be missed

I remember being a kid accidentally buying minecraft story mode story access and my parents screamed at me lol but i'm glad I did it was so fun and heart warming, ill remember the good times I had

Man I never truely knew now I know and it really sucks now knowing no one else can really get to play it I have both story mode games each episode finished they played a part in my child hood and it’s sad to see them go but I do pray they will make a comeback one day or atleast can have their copies finally sold again

They honestly need to think about suing their investors. A big and SUCCESSFUL studio like this getting brought down definitively could’ve been prevented.

I remember "playing" the netflix interactive version. I swear, it was just a TV show that you rarely interacted with.

love Telltale, I miss these games

9:51 i had a panic attack

There’s actually a rumor HIGHLY likely to be true where the Minecraft movie is based on this game. Honestly if that’s true, there’s no way the original game wouldn’t at least be purchasable again!

i remember when this first came out i was sitting on my couch watching some random movie that my sisters put on (probably a barbie movie) and then my dad came into the room and went "have you heard of this game called minecraft story mode?" and that day i bought it and i just kept replaying the first episode over and over because it was just so fun to me at the time

I was upset that the fandom really died out and that most people forgot and also didn’t even talk about it’s closure and downfall, but nice to see many talk about it here in this comments thread as well as this video itself

I remember I got Season One for one birthday and Season Two for another birthday when I was younger. These games are so nostalgic for me and the state they're in is just sad, I still have my copy of Minecraft Story Mode Season Two and replay it every now and then. I still remember when people were talking about what's gonna happen in Season Two and hoping for a Season Three. Maybe well get a Season Three one day. Extra thing I remember being so hype for some reason when Ivor had a speed potion and he was like "I'm like the wind" and you had to dodge, I don't know why that was so cool to me.

R.I.P Paul Reubens (Actor of Ivor) 😭 and possibly rip all chances for Season 3

I remember playing this with my little brother nonstop over and over, i almost shed a tear as i had forgot about this game for years and we had good times

I have found memories of these games even if I never finished them. It's sad to see the premise never went anywhere

Theres a youtuber/twitch streamer called Kwite, maybe you have herd of him, maybe not, but..... he started playing/streaming minecraft story mode as a joke and to make fun of the game as he went along. I watched his journey and the game started growing on him. By the time he beat season 2, he was sad that it was over, and left a final message saying something along the lines of... he really really enjoyed minecraft story mode and if they some how made another season, he would definitely be playing it with open arms. That put a huge smile on my face and i never related to someone more in that moment. i LOVED minecraft story mode, it always bugged me when people like to be harsh on the writing and story or lack of game play. I always thought of tell tales games as movies that you can mess with. Also for the story, can no one have any harmless fun anymore?? people now these days, if a story doesn't have any heavy theming/topics or sicarios that would make your jaw drop, its instantly garbage. I felt this way when I saw thor in theaters with my friends and the movie was just so much fun to watch and we had a blast, or i saw avatar the way of water with my mom and i was so emersed with the world of the nature and enjoyed every second of it, i was just chilling. But to other people, those movies were awful and a waste of your time, i get it, people have different tastes but the standards are just too high, you can see this with gaming as well. But people expecting the same level of writing from the walking dead for a MINECRAFT story, that just boils my blood. I cut tell tale some slack bc how do you write a story thats based off of a sandbox game that has none, not to mention writing branches of outcomes and dialog. I have so much respect for tell tale games knowing how hard this can be to be pulled off, i can't imagine me writing different branches of stories and keeping track of them down the line. I had fun and im glad i was here from the beginning when it first released, i miss those days.....

I think a big issue sadly and weirdly was also that lots of people like to watch RU-vidrs play these games. And if you’ve watched someone else play the story you probably won’t want to play it yourself as you already know the story

Something that no one seems to be talking about is that a lot of MCSM was actually released on Netflix as part of their interactive shows series. That’s where I got my experience with it. My little brother watched it over and over and over again, making different choices and exploring different paths. (both of us we super disappointed that we couldn’t save rueben). it was really cool that we could watch and play it together, i’m really sad it’s gone.

story mode and another game telltale made are some of my favorites, while they arent available now im still glad to have one way to play them and if they ever put them back on steam or wherever i would gladly buy them

It’s sad to see such a good masterpiece go, games like this were legendary, don’t even get me started on club penguin, that game was amazing, also the original design for Lukas is better than the one we had with the release ngl

They need to bring this back for an honor of Paul Reubens. Ivor was my favorite character in the game, he went to being a villain to being a hero, to being the most funny and enjoyable character in the game. RIP.

Enjoyed the video, although one criticism is the cuts into another clip that itself soon cuts to something else. ie. cutting to a clip of another game mere moments before that clip itself cuts to another camera shot, or cutting to Minecraft just a few frames before opening a chest and the chest inventory suddenly appearing on the screen. It creates these jarring sudden flashes, because no longer is it a simple cut to the next clip, it's now a cut with a tiny few frame long other segment lodged in the middle, which can be a bit of a jarring viewing experience in those moments as it creates this very brief "flash" of something different. How I fix this is by either having the clip I'm cutting to start sooner so it's now a few seconds before it cuts to another shot instead of a few frames, or have the clip I'm cutting to start later in it (after the previous shot it would have been cutting from), or if neither of these is possible because it's going to result in another camera jumping cut just before the cut in my editing timeline into the next shot, I'll completely cut out the few frames of other shot, and then slow down the clip speed of the remaining footage to perfectly fit in the space I need it to, which usually isn't going to be noticed by viewers anyway because for example who's going to notice this one 3 second clip is running at 95% rather than 100% speed? For example, at 8:28, cutting to the investment chest which is only on screen for a few frames before its opened and the inventory pops up, it's very jarring. I would've let the preopen chest part of the clip be on screen for at least a solid second to let the viewer properly see that "this is the 'investment' chest" as oppose to just inventory jumpscaring them before they even get a chance to read it. So yeah, enjoyed the video, but the cuts can get pretty jarring and hard on the eyes at times

This still reminds of how sad it is that they took the game off, i was one of the unlucky ones to not have the game when it was taken off. I did have it previously but i had to do a factory reset on my phone for various reasons and i never was able to get it again. It sucks that the company shut down due to funding and i really liked their games, i only wish that they would've been able to give their games to other companies so that people could still get them. Telltale was definitely one of the best storytelling companies in the business.

Actually regarding the article about TWD final season- the developers came back after the company disbanded i believe and they personally finished the game... for free / no pay at all. and yet the final game turned out REALLY well.

I remember getting the xbox 360 version for Christmas one year I had so much fun playing it, me and my friend group incorporated story aspects into our survival world. Fond memories

I think the studio can come back if Microsoft can aquire them and continue what they started, I really wanted a Minecraft story mode 3 and now I gotta wait and see what happens

It was a pretty cool game, I’ll miss it, story was quite nice and I wish it could still be easily played so that I could potentially see more playthroughs of the game, I might see if there are any playthroughs I haven’t watched yet

Seeing minecraft story mode not being able to be purchased hurts man, I loved when a new chapter would come out, honestly loved them

I remember not paying this game much mind, but seeing the whole first season played on youtube made me want to play this game, but it was too late at that point.

I remember seeing the ads on TV for this game and getting so hyped to get the new episodes whenever they were released on my tablet. Some people say the gameplay sucked. The story mattered - the gameplay was a bonus. Truly, though, younger me mainly wanted it because it was minecraft and I loved minecraft ever since I first played it in 2012. Both games holds a special place in my heart.

Good video, but a little correction at 8:57 TWD Season 4 did get finished, just not by Telltale, it had to get finished by Skybound Games. Nonetheless, it was released in late 2018 and as of now all Telltale Walking Dead games are available to purchase.

I remember playing Minecraft story mode on Netflix when I was younger. good times

I really hope they make another one. I've been re playing both season one and 2 and have all achievements.

im really sad that the game is banned and i remembered it last month and i wanted to play it so i looked it up on steam and it was not there and thanks for letting me know it got banned forever

I have pirated versions of both games on my PC. (This was after they went off sale so I think it’s perfectly fine, and I don’t normally pirate games)

I remember that I really wanted to buy the first season on steam when season two still wasn’t out but I never had the chance to do so and once I remembered it was unavailable and saw that the studio had shut down, but at least I have both games on PS4/5 I really hope that it comes back in the future so I could purchase them on steam but like you said definitely not any time soon

I was able to play both season 1 and 2 and I really was hoping for another season. Sadly we can’t have that anymore, I miss this one so much. 😢

3:16 this manz was using armour trims before anyone else