Minecraft seems to be so many different things to different people: 1. It's an incredibly deep game about surviving, exploring, and reshaping the natural world

Minecraft seems to be so many different things to different people: 1. It's an incredibly deep game about surviving, exploring, and reshaping the natural world. 2. It's an artistic medium that allows elaborate visions of architecture and fantasy worlds to be realized very easily, albeit with large blocks. 3. It's a fun way to hang out with people online, like Second Life without the indulgence and materialism. 4. There is whole field of "Minecraft science", where people do experiments to figure out how the game works and invent machines in-game that do things way beyond what the developers ever intended. 5. People design custom worlds and publish them for others to play. These can be long narrative adventures, short puzzles, parkour courses, and some team sports have recently emerged. 6. A huge developer ecosystem has grown from only decompiled and manually de-obfuscated source code. People have modified the game in amazing ways, and some mods have been incorporated into the official game. An official developer program is in the works. 7. "Let's Play Minecraft" shows on YouTube are unusually entertaining. The game is so open ended that you can really get creative with the format and content of the show. I don't know what it will be for you, but I'd be amazed if you never got anything out of it.