Best Free Games Like Minecraft Top Sandbox & Crafting Games like Minecraft

The best free alternative to Minecraft is Luanti (formerly Minetest), which is also Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 50 alternatives to Minecraft and loads of them is free so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting free alternatives to Minecraft are SurvivalCraft, Terasology, Veloren and VoxeLibre (formerly MineClone2).

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Venture into endless 3D worlds where creativity meets exploration and survival. Craft, build, and explore to your heart’s content against ongoing challenges.

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Minecraft alternatives page was last updated Oct 2, 2024
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  1. Struckd - 3D Game Creator icon
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    Struckd - 3D Game Creator

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    Struckd is the next-generation gaming platform for user created content where people of all ages come together to create, share and play games. Create your own games and play thousands of others. Download for Mobile & Desktop: www.struckd.com.

    49 Struckd - 3D Game Creator alternatives
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    License model

    • Freemium • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Android
    • Android Tablet

    Struckd - 3D Game Creator Features

    1.  Multiplayer
    2.  Drag and Drop
    3.  User generated
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  2. Mine Blocks icon
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    Mine Blocks

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    A free 2D Minecraft browser game, made in Flash!.

    59 Mine Blocks alternatives

    License model

    • Free • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Online

    Mine Blocks Features

    1.  Live audio input
    2.  Building game
    3.  Blocks
    4.  Sandbox
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  4. Brutal Nature icon
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    Brutal Nature

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    Brutal Nature is a multiplayer 3d survival PC game where everything in the game can be crafted and destroyed. Survive, crafting, building structures...

    13 Brutal Nature alternatives
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    License model

    • Freemium • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Steam

    Brutal Nature Features

    1.  Crafting
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    CraftWorld

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    You wake up in an infinite block world. Explore diverse biomes, mine for precious materials, craft powerful tools, build villages, cities, monumental constructions and much more. Place torches to light up your creations and play with the real time physics engine.

    32 CraftWorld alternatives

    License model

    • Freemium • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows Phone

    CraftWorld Features

    1.  Minecraft
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    Avoyd

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    Avoyd is a voxel editor and path traced renderer able to handle large models, and a six degrees of freedom movement game with editable terrain.

    21 Avoyd alternatives
    GPU path traced pyramid with base in water. Voxel model created and rendered in Avoyd. Inspired by carved cities by Antoine Lendrevie.

    License model

    • Free Personal • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows
    Minecraft map Mattupolis by mattuFIN imported and rendered in Avoyd with post processing denoise, bloom and AgZ tonemapping
    Avoyd Voxel Editor user interface showing a landscape created from a Mandelbrot fractal heightmap with added procedural boxes
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    Nixie tube clock voxel model made by PotatoVonEpicus and rendered in Avoyd with post processing denoise, bloom size 0.02, AgX tonemapping Golden

    Top Avoyd Features

    1.  Local multiplayer
    2.  Works Offline
    3.  Player vs Enviroment
    4.  Physically-Based Rendering
    5.  Lightweight
    6.  Ad-free
    7.  Single player
    8.  Multiplayer
    9.  Dark Mode
    10.  3D Sculpting
    11.  No registration required
    12.  3D Renderer
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  7. Villa Craft Survival icon
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    Villa Craft Survival

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    Villa Craft Survival is a beautiful game with a 3d cube world.Creative and building aspects of the Villa Craft enable players to build constructions out of different cubes in a 3D procedurally generated world.

    80 Villa Craft Survival alternatives
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    License model

    • Free • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Android
    • Android Tablet

    Villa Craft Survival Features

    1.  Minecraft
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    LostMiner

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    Indie sandbox game with mining, crafting and exploration elements, mainly inspired by Minecraft, Terraria and Junk Jack. It has a side-view camera, mixing 2D with 3D, polished pixel graphics with lot of personality, and great sound effects!

    16 LostMiner alternatives
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    License model

    • Free • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Android
    • Android Tablet

    LostMiner Features

    1.  Minecraft
    2.  Sandbox
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