‘Minecraft: Story Mode’ Episode 7 Release Date and New Trailer

Jul 19, 2016 10:44 AM EDT

Minecraft, not satisfied with being one of the biggest sandbox strategy games of all time, has a spinoff version of their game with Minecraft Story Mode, developed from Telltale Games.  If you aren't familiar with Telltale Games, they make a lot of licensed material games where the player is in more of an RPG than whatever the source is.  In the case of Minecraft: Story Mode, it has really worked out, and a Season Pass was supposed to give players episodes 1-5, but then they decided to add three more chapters.  This is what is known about Minecraft's Story Mode Episode 7 Release Date. 

According to Polygon, the seventh episode of Telltale's Minecraft: Story Mode is coming very soon, as in next week.  The title is called "Access Denied", and it is the middle chapter of the three-episode Adventure Pass expansion of the original Story Mode tale.  This took place over four episodes, with the fifth episode bridging the story and the new arc.  You can see the trailer for Episode 7 below. 

Telltale has an official synopsis:  "In Episode 7: 'Access Denied,' continuing their portal journey in search of home, Jesse and crew land in a world entirely controlled by PAMA - a sinister 'thinking machine' determined to command everyone and everything in pursuit of optimal usefulness and efficiency. Forced on the run to avoid capture and assimilation, you'll need to work with a new ally to defeat the corrupted computer and free the population it has enslaved."

There is a new celebrity voice for the new Chapter 7, and it will feature Yvette Nicole Brown, playing the role of Harper, the creator of PAMA.  The actress is best known for playing Shirley Bennett on Community

Since this is Chapter 7, this means that Chapter 8 is probably under development, if not finished already.  That means that either Telltale is going to bring this series to a close, or they are just going to keep milking this for as long as players are going to buy it.  Oh, who are we kidding?  I'm sure there is going to be some kind of demand for this, so there could be more Minecraft: Story Mode until the end of time. 

If you want to purchase Minecraft: Story Mode Chapter 7 of "Access Denied", you can go online and purchase it for about $4.99  It is also part of the $14.99 Adventure Pass, and players must own at least the first episode of Minecraft: Story Mode in order to get that add-on series.  This episode will be available on July 26, on Android, iOS, Mac, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Windows PC, Xbox 360, Xbox One, not to mention the way to the Windows Store.