Minecraft Alternatives

Minecraft is described as 'Venture into endless 3D worlds where creativity meets exploration and survival. Craft, build, and explore to your heart’s content against ongoing challenges' and is a leading Sandbox Game in the games category. There are more than 50 games similar to Minecraft for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Android, Linux and Steam apps. The best Minecraft alternative is Luanti (formerly Minetest), which is both free and Open Source. Other Minecraft like games are SurvivalCraft, Creativerse: The Definitive Edition, Terasology and VoxeLibre (formerly MineClone2).

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    Download and Play Best FREE 3D sandbox blocks craft game with Creative Multiplayer and Survival Modes! Build creative 3D world online, get resources, craft items in survival, tame animals, watch out mobs and survive! Explore worlds created by others.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once)
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Windows Phone
    • iPad
     
  2. WolkenWelten icon
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    Multiplayer Voxel Survival in C99, includes a badly written implementation of LISP.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Raspberry Pi
     
  3. Kidblock icon
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    Kidblock is: Building, exploring, world sharing, multiplayer, mobs, rocket launchers, lasers, TNT, swords, crafting, mining, farming, protecting, gameplay recording and much more!

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • iPad
     
  4. Discovery icon
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    In 'Discovery' you can explore a giant world that is made of blocks and modify it with your own creations.

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • iPhone
    • Windows Phone
    • iPad
    • Kindle Fire
     
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    The MMO, Cubed.

    Trove is an open-ended voxel adventure through countless realms filled with quests, chests, and enemies great and small.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once)
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Playstation
    • Xbox
     
  6. Islanded icon
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    Islanded is a Survival Nature Sandbox game, based in the interaction with the nature to survive. Use animals to explore, find food and fight while searching for resources to build in a huge open world with total freedom.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  7. StarForge icon
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    StarForge is a game about gathering resources, building bases, crafting anything you want, and surviving on an alien planet. Earth's star is dying and humanity transferred as much technology and resources as possible and left on a one way mission to populate another planet.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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    STALCRAFT: X is the largest online game set in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone. Explore an open world filled with mutants and anomalies alone or with friends — unforgettable experiences are guaranteed!

    4 STALCRAFT: X alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Steam
     
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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.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once)
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Android
    • Android Tablet
     
  10. Growtopia icon
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    Growtopia is a multiplayer sandbox platformer with crafting. There are an infinite number of worlds where you can create with friends. Everything in the world can be grown from trees. Discover new items by mixing the seeds of trees you already have.

    25 Growtopia alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • iPad
    • Wine
     
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  11. iLands icon
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    Build your dream island in a 3D, blocky world! Play with friends in real-time!

    • Claim your own randomly-generated iLand and customize it to your liking.
    • Build into the sky, over the water, or under the ground. The only limit is your imagination!
    • Relax on the beach, discover.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • iPad
    • Facebook
     
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    Build and Destroy Blocks. Get Resources and Create Various Tools, Blocks and Weapons with which you can Survive and build unique Buildings.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • iPad
     
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