Arkfall: Mech Battles is an entire first-person shooter built inside Minecraft: Bedrock Edition
Explore a detailed sci-fi city while blasting enemies in your mech.
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Minecraft is an impressive enough game entirely on its own merits, but much of how it has managed to last so long with such incredible levels of success is due to its community. Mojang Studios enables community creators to build new content for Minecraft: Bedrock Edition with a plethora of official tools. These creations are released through the Minecraft Marketplace, and an indie developer has now taken this relationship to all-new heights. Syclone Studios is releasing Arkfall: Mech Battles, a full game built entirely inside of Minecraft.
Arkfall: Mech Battles is a first-person action-shooter set in a fictional sci-fi universe; players will take control of a devastating mech suit and explore the city of Neo Futura. Syclone Studios intends for this title to be the first of many in a growing franchise, with each game built entirely using Minecraft: Bedrock Edition’s always-evolving creator tools and features. Arkfall: Mech Battles is a completely different entity than vanillaMinecraft, and features unique gameplay, mechanics, and more.
Some of the features of Arkfall: Mech Battles include:
Arkfall: Mech Battles releases exclusively through the Minecraft Marketplace on April 19, 2022, and will be supported anywhere Minecraft: Bedrock Edition works, including Xbox, PC, PlayStation, Android and iOS, and Switch. The first independent game to be built with and published through Minecraft: Bedrock Edition, Syclone Studios hopes it can encourage other developers to follow suit while also expanding the Arkfall franchise with future games.
Minecraft is certainly one of thebest Xbox games, but can a game built inside a game also achieve the same level? It’s clear a lot of work has gone into bringing Arkfall: Mech Battles to life, and it’ll be interesting to see if it can deliver a compelling first-person shooter experience from within Minecraft: Bedrock Edition.
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Minecoins are the currency of choice in the Minecraft Marketplace, letting you purchase new content for your game. You can even pick up a brand-new game from inside Minecraft, like Arkfall: Mech Battles.
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Minecraft is an inarguable and complete success. It has sold copies in the hundreds of millions, has a huge following of dedicated players, and lets you unlock your every creative desire. Now, it’s also the platform on which developers can build entirely separate, full-fledged games like Arkfall: Mech Battles.
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Zachary Boddy (They / Them) is a Staff Writer for Windows Central, primarily focused on covering the latest news in tech and gaming, the best Xbox and PC games, and the most interesting Windows and Xbox hardware. They have been gaming and writing for most of their life starting with the original Xbox, and started out as a freelancer for Windows Central and its sister sites in 2019. Now a full-fledged Staff Writer, Zachary has expanded from only writing about all things Minecraft to covering practically everything on which Windows Central is an expert, especially when it comes to Microsoft. You can find Zachary on Twitter@BoddyZachary.
