Minecraft has acquired another 20 million monthly players in the last year – Eurogamer.net, Eurogamer.net

Microsoft has revealed its latest numbers for Minecraft, and, astonishingly, it’s acquired another 20 million monthly players since previous figures were released just under a year ago.

Last October, official numbers revealed that Minecraft had accumulated 91 million monthly active users, which in itself was a massively leap from December 2017, when the game set a new record with over 74 million players logging in for their fix of cube -based adventure. And Minecraft’s popularity shows no signs of abating, with head of Minecraft Helen Chiangtelling Business Insiderin a new interview that the game has now amassed 112 million monthly players.

That, of course , accounts for players across all platforms (of which there are many), alongside those playing through Xbox Game Pass – but, even so, it’s another impressive, and slightly head-spinning, number. Furthermore, it sees Minecraft once again stealing the lead over free-to-play rival Roblox,which announced100 million monthly active users back in August.

Taken alongside developer Mojang’sannouncement in Julythat Minecraft has now sold over 176 million copies (potentially making it the best-selling video game of all time), it’s clear that Minecraft, despiterecently celebratingits tenth birthday, continues from strength to strength.

And with such a healthy player base, it’s no surprise that Microsoft is still leaning heavily on the IP which it famously paid $ 2.5 billion USD for back in 2014. Alongside continuing support of the core game, including therather swish-looking raytracing update, Microsoft currently has free- to-play, Pokémon-Go-style mobile offeringMinecraft Earth in betafor iOS and Android, and is working on thepromising Minecraft Dungeonsfor next year.