Luanti is a near-infinite-world block sandbox game and a game engine, inspired by InfiniMiner, Minecraft, and the like.
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- Free
- Open Source
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Minecraft AlternativesOnly apps categorised as Sandbox Games
The best Sandbox Game 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 Sandbox Games so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Sandbox Game alternatives to Minecraft are SurvivalCraft, Creativerse: The Definitive Edition, Terasology and Veloren.
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66 Luanti (formerly Minetest) alternatives
You 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
- Android
- iPhone
- Android Tablet
- Windows Phone
- iPad
- Kindle Fire
62 Creativerse: The Definitive Edition alternativesCreativerse: 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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61 Terasology alternativesTerasology (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.
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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Cost / License
- Paid
- Proprietary
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- Windows
- Steam
- Playstation
- Xbox
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Survive, farm, build, explore, play with friends, and do much more. Inspired by Minecraft, pushing beyond.
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Night is falling and your blockhead is freezing. You haven't yet made shelter and your campfire has gone out. All you have is a spade, some wood and a few sticks. You have only minutes before exhaustion hits. Do you create a bed, dig a cave or refuel your fire?
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Cost / License
- Free
- Proprietary
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- Android
- iPhone
- Android Tablet
- iPad
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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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The Fun-Focused Free Software Voxel World Game. Voxelands is a sandbox construction game based on Minetest.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
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Alerts
- Discontinued
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
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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.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
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Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Android
- BSD
- Minetest
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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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Hardware friendly/Works well on low-end machines