LEGO Heads to Steam Early Access with LEGO Worlds

LEGO has released Minecraft rival LEGO Worlds on Steam Early Access for $14.99.

The sandbox-style game "will be a fully open-world, creativity-driven game so we want to ensure that we provide it with the utmost care and attention as we expand on our ideas," the game's Steam listing reads, explaining why LEGO felt Early Access was an appropriate place to launch the game.

"So much of this game will be about building and sharing and by sharing our plans with the community, we hope to incorporate their feedback and build an experience together that fans of LEGO and this genre of video games can enjoy."

"The current plan for LEGO Worlds is to be in Early Access through 2015 at which point we hope to have our full list of features in place. We'll evaluate a release candidate in early 2016, but we won't consider the game complete and ready for release until we believe our community feels we have delivered a great game."

An ad for the game appeared in an actual LEGO set last week, but publisher Warner Bros. refused to comment at the time.

"We'll be actively monitoring the Community Hub here on Steam and look forward to feedback and suggestions for the game," LEGO's statement continued. "We'll also be offering people a chance to experience the development of a LEGO title for the first time, and several members of the team will be providing some interesting dev diaries over the coming months."

Three known LEGO games are currently in development, LEGO Jurassic World, LEGO Avengers, and LEGO Dimensions – a Skylanders/Disney Infinity rival. It's unclear at this point if LEGO Worlds will be released on any platform.