Please explain this to me...

[Le Rouge]

My 7yo kid came back from a friend asked to to DL this.
From a quick look I really can't understand what it's all about, aside from whacking some animals (?).
So why has this been a huge hit for a couple of years now?

[BrotherTobious]

It is all about the freedom you can build anything, some basic to advanced electronics using red stone. But I think for us was building huge projects together. And helping each other out. Also exploration ask oldie about that.

Biggest selling pc game I do believe

[Penfold]

It's fun yet educational.

It's not violent in the sense of other games and teaches quite well about various things - farming, mining, building, engineering as well as the more social aspects of collaborative working  etc.

It has been used in schools.

These two links can explain better than I

http://minecraftedu.com/

http://minecraft.gamepedia.com/Minecraft_in_education

[suicidal_monkey]

Sounds like some sort a cult to me. They keep chanting "join us, join us".

[kregoron]

minecraft is actually used by a incredible amount of people for other things then playing around.
Example the danish national mapping service, has created a full blown map of denmark inside minecraft (yeah i did find my house )