These give you weeks of extra 'oh, new game' time. It has 3rd party hosted servers where you can play castle siege, hide&seek, paintball war, CS, etc.
Sure there are fun and good games, but you usually get bored with them within a week. Other games are just so bad that this one stands out. My kids already know that half a stack is 32 items. it teaches you that iron is mined under ground and sand is used to make glass. It is a sandbox game, giving you a lot of freedom. Here are reasons why Minecraft is so good: Minecraft is far superior, but not because of Mojang and only because it is written in Java. Actually I have played thousands of hours both. I played Mario when I was young and I played Minecraft.