There are many alternatives to Minecraft for Linux if you are looking for a replacement. The best Linux alternative is Luanti (formerly Minetest), which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 100 alternatives to Minecraft and many of them are available for Linux so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Linux alternatives to Minecraft are Veloren, VoxeLibre (formerly MineClone2), Vintage Story and Terasology.
Luanti is a near-infinite-world block sandbox game and a game engine, inspired by InfiniMiner, Minecraft, and the like.
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Veloren is a multiplayer voxel RPG written in Rust. It is inspired by games such as Cube World, Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Dwarf Fortress and Minecraft.
Survive, farm, build, explore, play with friends, and do much more. Inspired by Minecraft, pushing beyond.
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Vintage Story is a game about innovation and exploration. It thrusts the player into a carefully-generated semi-autonomous world and challenges them to survive and overcome the natural and unknown threats of their new home.
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Terasology (started under the name Blockmania) is an open source project started by Benjamin “begla” Glatzel to research procedural terrain generation and efficient rendering techniques in Java using the LWJGL.
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A basic game for Luanti (formerly Minetest) developed by the Minetest team, often referred to as "Vanilla Minetest". It includes mods for basic tools, nodes, & an API for player visuals.
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Wurm Online is an independent, ground breaking MMO that allows players to dig, flatten, raise and shape the land and create the frontier world they live in.
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A multiplayer brick building game that gives you the tools to create and play, your way. Build and invent with your friends, or blow them to smithereens!
Unturned is a sandbox game in the emerging multiplayer apocalypse survival genre. Rather than focusing on being an MMO it provides players with easy systems to sit down and survive the zombie infestation with their friends.
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Mythruna is a game under construction combining extensive world building, crafting, and sandbox elements with just a touch of role-playing. When completed, Mythruna will be a unique gaming experience.
