The popular open world game Minecraft has reached the milestone of 200 million game copies sold, according to Monday Numbers from Microsoft. That is 24 million more than in September last year, when the number was still at 176 million copies sold.
In Minecraft players can explore a virtual world and express themselves creatively by building blocks with designs.
The game celebrated its 11-year anniversary on Sunday and is still hugely popular. The number of monthly active players is still growing. Currently, the game has 126 million monthly active players. In September there were still 112 million.
Minecraft saw the number of new players to the game increase by 25 percent during the outbreak of the COVID-19 virus, writes The Verge. In addition, multiplayer sessions gained popularity: the number of multiplayer sessions increased by 40 percent.
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