Best Games Like Minecraft for SteamTop Sandbox & Crafting Games like Minecraft

Minecraft is not available for Steam but there are plenty of alternatives with similar functionality. The best Steam alternative is Creativerse: The Definitive Edition. It's not free, so if you're looking for a free alternative, you could try Wurm Online or Unturned. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 100 alternatives to Minecraft and many of them are available for Steam so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Steam alternatives to Minecraft are LEGO Worlds, Blockland, Brickadia and Scrap Mechanic.

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  1. Creativerse: The Definitive Edition is a sandbox adventure game set in a beautiful yet treacherous world shrouded in mystery. Adventure solo or bring your friends, unearth secrets, and tame the land together!

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  2. LEGO Worlds icon
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    Galaxy of procedural worlds made entirely from LEGO bricks.

    40 LEGO Worlds alternatives

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  3. Wurm Online icon
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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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    • Freemium
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  4. Blockland icon
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    Blockland is an online multiplayer game where you build things with bricks. It's like playing with legos on the internet.

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  5. Brickadia icon
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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!

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  6. Scrap Mechanic is an all-new creative multiplayer sandbox game which drops you right into a world where you quite literally engineer your own adventures! Choose from the 100+ building parts you have at your disposal and create anything from crazy transforming vehicles to a house...

    8 Scrap Mechanic alternatives

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  7. Eco icon
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    Eco is an online game where players must collaborate to build a civilization in a world where everything they do affects the environment. All resources come from a simulated ecosystem, with thousands of plants and animals simulating 24/7.

    14 Eco alternatives

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  8. DRAGON QUEST BUILDERS™ 2 is a block-building RPG set in a fantasy land threatened by an evil cult. Explore, battle, build and harvest in the charming single-player campaign or build big projects in the online sandbox mode for up to 4-players.

    8 Dragon Quest Builder 2 alternatives

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  9. Unturned icon
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    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.

    21 Unturned alternatives

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  10. Teardown icon
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    Prepare the perfect heist in this simulated and fully destructible voxel world. Tear down walls with vehicles or explosives to create shortcuts. Stack objects to reach higher. Use the environment to your advantage in the most creative way you can think of.

    5 Teardown alternatives

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  11. Brutal Nature icon
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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...

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  12. Masterspace icon
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    Masterspace is a game about mining, creating and exploring, featuring fully destructible smooth terrain and spaceships that allow you to travel between different planets.

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    • Discontinued

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