LEGO Worlds

LEGO Worlds is commendable for its environmental diversity and the power of its creative tools to build anything you can dream of or manipulate every castle, hillside, and forest in sight. Unfortunately, fiddly menus, a pretty terrible combat system, and at times clunky and unfriendly construction controls weigh down on the wonder of finding and creating.

While the concept of a LEGO based sandbox is irresistibly charming and promising, LEGO Worlds unfortunately misses all the right marks. From a presentation lens, the LEGO premise is used well, but it never feels in tune with the level design, and the multiplayer, one of the biggest draws, is underutilized and underdeveloped. For a younger audience, the single-player might serve as a decent time killer, as the overall presentation is colourful and inviting, and the initial hour of figuring out what and how to build is exciting, but fans of either LEGO or the sandbox genre will be left wanting so much more than what LEGO Worlds can offer.

Lego Worlds will always be likened to Minecraft, mainly for being an open world sandbox game aimed at children, but unlike the Mojang game, we found ourselves, much to our surprise, scavenging and exploring, more like games such as No Man's Sky. With more content added all the time, and stuff for all ages to appreciate, TT Games' attempt to move Lego into the sandbox world has been a successful one.