Dragon Quest Builders 2 has a free “jumbo demo” that you can play right now before it launches on PC next week. The first Minecraft-y spinoff from the JRPG series Dragon Quest never made it off consoles so it’s nice that we get a small taste of the sequel to see what it’s about.

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Dragon Quest might be over three decades old, but you wouldn’t know it looking at Steam. In all that time, only one mainline entry in the cult JRPG series has hit PC. That’s not about to change anytime soon. Fortunately, Square Enix have announced that peculiar spin-off Dragon Quest Builders 2 will arrive on PC in just under a month. As a multiplayer, voxel-bashing open-world sandbox, Builders is a real odd’un, taking a hint of Minecraft to create something that’s as much a traditional hack n’ slash as it is a creative toolbox.

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