Diablo-ish Minecraft spin-off Minecraft Dungeons has a sequel, and said sequel’s coming out at some point in 2026. What’s it about? Well, Mojang say, “all was well until it wasn’t”. Wait, lads, that’s pretty much the setup for every sequel and arguably story humanity’s ever produced. Aye, Mojang say, but the mild-mannered villagers are on fire, so you’d better get your diamond sword polished.

Announced during this weekend just gone’s Minecraft Live, all we’ve seen of Minecraft Dungeons 2 thus far is a short cinematic which both indicates and says that all is no longer well via images of villagers having a nice time and then running from their burning houses. It then concludes with a dive down through some big holes to a TV screen-looking thing deep underwater.

The Steam page that’s already up doesn’t provide any more of a look at the game than this cinematic, but does reveal that Dungeons 2’s slated to come out this autumn. “A new threat stirs, ready to descend upon the land and its inhabitants to cause unspeakable mayhem,” the blurb continues, remaining vaguer than a teenager asked to explain their whereabouts on Saturday night. “Become a hero and take on foes unlike anything you’ve faced before, journey through long‑forgotten locations, and clash with the forces of evil once more!”

Minecraft’s spin-offs have been a bit hit and miss, with RTS Minecraft Legends earning a mixed verdict from us. The original Dungeons, meanwhile, was a game Nate Crowley (RPS in peace) largely dug, but did wish had been a bit more weird and Minecrafty.

“It’s a robust piece of design that you could well consider a triumph, given just how many ways in which the concept of an ARPG based on a construction game phenomenon could have ended in disaster,” he wrote in our Minecraft Dungeons review. “And I’m confident in recommending it as worth its price to even the most jaded click-stabber, especially one with even a passing familiarity with Minecraft. But the fact it’s been executed so competently leaves me wishing the developers had been a bit more reckless, frankly. A bit more experimental, in adapting its parent property to an alien genre. Because while the results might have been profoundly weird, it’s weird things – like Minecraft itself was, when it first appeared – that change the landscape of gaming.”

If you’re so inclined, you can wishlist Dungeons 2 on Steam.