Luanti is a near-infinite-world block sandbox game and a game engine, inspired by InfiniMiner, Minecraft, and the like.
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Best Games Like Minecraft for WindowsTop Sandbox & Crafting Games like Minecraft
There are many alternatives to Minecraft for Windows if you are looking for a replacement. The best Windows 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 loads of them are available for Windows so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Windows alternatives to Minecraft are SurvivalCraft, Creativerse: The Definitive Edition, Terasology and Veloren.
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66 Luanti (formerly Minetest) alternatives
44 SurvivalCraft alternativesYou are marooned on the shores of an infinite blocky world. Explore, mine resources, craft tools and weapons, hunt and make traps. Build a shelter to survive nights and share your worlds online. Possibilities are infinite in this sandbox survival and construction game.
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- Freemium
- Proprietary
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- Windows
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- iPhone
- Android Tablet
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- iPad
- Kindle Fire
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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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.
22 Veloren alternativesVeloren 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.
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54 VoxeLibre (formerly MineClone2) alternativesSurvive, farm, build, explore, play with friends, and do much more. Inspired by Minecraft, pushing beyond.
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- Proprietary
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- Windows
- Steam
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20 Vintage Story alternativesVintage 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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68 Voxelands alternativesThe Fun-Focused Free Software Voxel World Game. Voxelands is a sandbox construction game based on Minetest.
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- Free
- Open Source
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- Discontinued
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- Mac
- Windows
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13 Polytoria alternativesPolytoria is a free-to-play platform and website similar to Roblox. You can create levels, play levels, talk in a forum, customize your avatar and do many more activities.
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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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- Free
- Open Source
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- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Android
- BSD
- Minetest
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12 ClassiCube alternativesAn alternative to the Java web game "Minecraft Classic" that was listed on the official Minecraft site but taken down in 2016-2017.
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- Free
- Open Source
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