I highly recommend Dragon Quest Builders to anyone who enjoys (or might enjoy) Minecraft even a little bit. It can reliably make me feel like a kid with a new Lego set for hundreds of consecutive hours.

Killer Feature #1 is the room system, which can be a great source of inspiration if you don't know what you want to build. Killer Feature #2 is the overall charm you would expect from a modern Dragon Quest game, especially the NPCs. DQB1 has the better story mode (in my opinion), while DQB2 gives you much more freedom to build.

I enjoyed both games, to an extent, but OMG, get ready to spend 90% of your time reading through the boring dialogue of the characters.

I tried to follow it, and then I just started skipping through it. Then I go to where even doing that was just not worth it.

I couldn’t make it through either game.

(To be fair, I don’t think DQB1 was quite as bad with this as DQB2, but I wasn’t a huge fan of the roguelite approach of the levels.)

I enjoyed both games. My kids are obsessed with DQB2. There’s stuff I really like about the storyline in 2 e.g. the “now save the monsters as well” ending. It’s a crying shame no-one’s making anything like it since.