Multiplayer Minecraft (Series) Alternatives

The best alternative to Minecraft 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 so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting alternatives to Minecraft are Veloren, VoxeLibre (formerly MineClone2), Vintage Story and Terasology.

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  1. Luanti is a near-infinite-world block sandbox game and a game engine, inspired by InfiniMiner, Minecraft, and the like.

    69 Luanti (formerly Minetest) alternatives

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    • Flathub
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  2. Veloren icon
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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.

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  3. Survive, farm, build, explore, play with friends, and do much more. Inspired by Minecraft, pushing beyond.

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    • Minetest
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  4. Vintage Story icon
     14 likes

    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.

    23 Vintage Story alternatives

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  5. Terasology icon
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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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  6. Polytoria icon
     10 likes

    Polytoria 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.

    15 Polytoria alternatives

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    • Online
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  7. Eco icon
     9 likes

    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.

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  8. Blockland icon
     15 likes

    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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  9. NodeCore icon
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    Original voxel game about emergent mechanics and exploration.

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • BSD
    • Minetest
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  10. 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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  11. 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...

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    • Windows
    • Steam
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  12. Unturned icon
     16 likes

    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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    • Freemium
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