Minecraft is sandbox game. You spawn in world three time bigger than earth. You can, cut tree, mine diamond , fight with monster , make complicated mechanisms with redstone. And the most important you can build all of thing. White house, NASA space station or amazing castle . If you want to play you need only Java. This indie games so this awesome game make only one person Notch and he is a milioner.

I will in all monday give you some interesting information about minecraft.

Kingdoms Landing (Game of throne)

Alduin (TES V Skyrim)

Some links

Minecraft official page https://minecraft.net/