I wage a brief war upon these snowmen, and use the gathered studs - which I like to think of as a sacrificial offering of their remains - to build a prefab cabin down by the coast. Horses and huskies roam among the pine trees and snowmen dot the landscape. There’s no multiplayer yet, though it is due in a later Early Access build - so it remains to be seen how TT Games intend to counter the inevitable rash of penises that such tools will facilitate.Īfter fighting my way through the game’s appalling front-end menus, I freefall into a snowscape - one island of many in this particular procedurally generated world.

You can manually construct things, too, and at no cost, placing individual bricks from a huge library of brick shapes, to build as you please, as well as modifying the terrain with a variety of powerful tools. Spawned items have a cost in studs, however, though these are easily acquired by smashing the shit out of everything you see. There’s no survival element here (regular readers of this column will know this is not a complaint) - your motivation is merely to explore and enjoy the world, discovering new prefabs, minifigs, vehicles and animals and adding them to your ever-swelling library of instantly spawnable items. There’s not much about it at the moment that Minecraft hasn’t covered in mods, but it’s nonetheless immediate, generous and jolly, its focus shifted away from Minecraft’s complex recipes and resources to simple collection and unfettered creation. So perhaps I shouldn’t be surprised that Worlds, too, feels interesting and ambitious - albeit extremely early in its development. Though it’s an enterprise that seems to be getting wise to this fact: some of the recent releases under the Lego brand are, I am told, interesting and ambitious in their own right, and not just quirky minifig rehashes of film properties, draped over a crap but childproof platformer framework. Its shadow looms large over this entire enterprise. Every dismayingly poor TT Games platformer I’ve played has only further convinced me that Markus Persson already made the best possible Lego game - and as just one facet of that multifaceted monster, Minecraft. Though they quite possibly only managed that because someone else went and did it first. This week he’s been playing Lego Worlds, TT Games’ attempt to channel the charm of Minecraft’s freeform construction at the behest of their brick-wielding Danish overlords.įinally, Lego have made a game about Lego rather than the Lego brand. Each week Marsh Davies squints at the ambitious blueprint that is Early Access and struggles to work out which bit goes where, and how many pieces are missing, before giving up and, most likely, building a big old cock instead.

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