[shiado]

On the other hand Minecraft is the best-selling PC video game of all time and it was originally written in Java and the Java client is the definitive experience of the game.

[dimgl]

There's also Project Zomboid. Which doesn't really come close to Minecraft, but it's also developed in Java with a Lua engine on top.

Why? Well, I have absolutely no clue...

[mdaniel]

Heh, thanks for bringing that to my attention; based on the video alone, I think that'd be right up my alley (linky-linky: https://www.gog.com/game/project_zomboid and it's on Steam, too, if you're into that)

> Why?

From the GOG page:

Works on: Windows (10, 11), Linux (Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 18.04), Mac OS X (10.9.0+)

is almost certainly "why," and I'd guess the lua part is because it seems to be the lingua franca of game modding, so meet folks where they are

[cgrealy]

not really a desktop app though, is it?

And Minecraft is also a notable outlier. Outside of mobile, there are very few games written in java on PC or consoles.

[bruce343434]

Minecraft is an application which runs on the desktop... I don't see what you mean.

[smrtinsert]

That's right let's not forget about the famous Ruby and Javascript desktop games that have outsold Minecraft...

[DaiPlusPlus]

Limewire tho

[RhodesianHunter]

How is it not a desktop app? Millions play it on their desktop.

[throwaway889900]

Let's not exclude Runescape, when it was a java applet back in the early 2000's.