Minecraft Dungeons II launch set for Sept. 29, 2026

Mojang Studios has set a Sept. 29, 2026 release date for Minecraft Dungeons II, the follow-up to 2020’s dungeon-crawling action RPG Minecraft Dungeons — not a sequel to the main Minecraft sandbox game. Mojang announced the date in a June 7 post on Minecraft.net, and Xbox repeated it in its June 7 Games Showcase recap, clearing up confusion caused by some headlines that framed the game as an “official Minecraft sequel.”

Mojang is developing the game with co-developer Double Eleven, and Xbox Game Studios is publishing it. The companies list Minecraft Dungeons II for PC through Steam and the Microsoft Store on PC, Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 5, Nintendo Switch, Nintendo Switch 2 and Xbox Cloud. Xbox’s showcase materials also list the game as coming to Game Pass.

The distinction matters because Minecraft Dungeons II follows a spinoff, not the core block-building game that made the franchise a global hit. The original Minecraft Dungeons launched May 26, 2020, as a separate action RPG set in the Minecraft universe. Mojang first revealed the sequel at Minecraft Live on March 21, 2026, when it gave the game a broader fall 2026 release window before confirming the exact date this weekend.

Pre-orders are now open. According to Mojang and Xbox, players who pre-order will receive two hero skins, the Twisted cape and the Twisted chicken pet. In its announcement, Mojang summed up the release-date news with the line, “Brave the Unknown on September 29!”

Beyond the date, Mojang’s marketing describes the sequel as a larger campaign with new environments, tougher enemies and an adventure that spans “not one, but two worlds.” One of the enemies highlighted in official materials is the Twisted Warden, a sign that the sequel is leaning into darker, more dangerous territory than the original while staying within the familiar Minecraft Dungeons action-RPG format.