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Minecraft: Story Mode

2015 video game

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 24, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

Minecraft: Story Mode is an episodic point-and-click video game developed and published by Telltale Games, based on Mojang Studios' sandbox game Minecraft. The first five episodes were released from October 2015 to March 2016, and an additional three episodes were released as downloadable content (DLC) in mid-2016. A second season consisting of five episodes was released from July to December 2017.

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The public source identifies “Minecraft: Story Mode” as 2015 video game. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Minecraft, Story and Mode.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2015, 2016, 2017—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Minecraft, Story and Mode providing the first useful test.
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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 24, 2026. The first chronological checks are 2015, 2016 and 2017.

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This entry incorporates text from “Minecraft: Story Mode” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.