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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  1. Blockade 3D icon
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    Use guns, tanks, and even shovels to kill your enemy in different game-modes. Use your bricks to build shelters, walls, and stairways, or you can use your shovel or other tool to dig your way into enemy territory.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  2. bloxd.io icon
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    Welcome to Bloxd.io – a multiplayer sandbox game where creativity meets action. Whether you're building, exploring, or battling.

    8 bloxd.io alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
     
  3. CraftWorld icon
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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.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows Phone
     
  4. Muck icon
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    Trapped in the muck on an island, alone or with your friends, try to survive as long as possible by using the resources you find around the island.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Steam
     
  5. Block Story icon
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    Block Story combines a mineable blocky world pioneered by Infiniminer and made popular by Minecraft with exciting and addictive role playing.

    47 Block Story alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
     
  6. SwordCraft icon
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    Building, Crafting, RETRO Sandbox RPG!

    SwordCraft is a 2D building game in the style of Minecraft, Junk Jack, Blockheads or Terraria.

    The game is currently in early Alpha testing.

    Content is continuously being added.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
     
  7. Magichet icon
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    Magichet is an overhaul of Minetest and is superior to Minecraft in terms of in-game features. New mobs, items, armor types, tools, crops and much more awaits you!.

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
    • Wine
    • Minetest
     
  8. Core Keeper icon
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    Explore a vast cavern of creatures, relics and resources in a mining sandbox adventure for 1-8 players. Mine, build, fight, craft and farm to unravel the mystery of the ancient Core.

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Steam
    • Windows
     
  9. Epic Inventor icon
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    I have said a few times that Epic Inventor was inspired by Terraria. There are obvious similarities you can see right away in the various screenshots I’ve posted. Certainly our desire to create a game was inspired by it as well. We love that game. We played it a lot.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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    It's good to be the King Claim the throne for yourself, and establish your dominance over the realm. The King is dead, long live the King!.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Steam
     
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    Portal Knights combines the exploration and building elements of Minecraft with the RPG aspects from games such as Zelda. It provides a sandbox, in which players can explore, fight monsters, craft items, and construct buildings, armour and weapons.

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
    • Steam
    • Playstation
    • Nintendo Switch
    • Xbox
     
  12. 4D Miner icon
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    4D Miner is a 4-dimensional survival sandbox game, where you can explore an infinite, procedurally-generated, 4-dimensional world!.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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