Best Games Like Minecraft (Series) Top Sandbox & Crafting Games like Minecraft (Series)

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   Luanti (formerly Minetest)

    273 likes

   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

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source

   Application typeApplication types

   • Sandbox Game
   • Crafting Game

   Origin

   • Germany
   • EU

   Platforms

   • Mac
   • Windows
   • Linux
   • Android
   • Android Tablet
   • BSD
   • Linux Mobile
   • Flathub
   • F-Droid
   • Self-Hosted

   • Germany
   • EU

   

   

   

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   Top Positive Comment by gabethepiggy · Jul 30, 2017

   Hardware friendly/Works well on low-end machines

   Positive comment by danielol1 · Aug 4, 2026

   It’s wonderful how the platform allows us to modify the games. There are plenty of mods we can easily install without needing to look for external tools. Everything we need is available within the platform itself.

   My recommendation for anyone who’s going to try Luanti is to play on the Your Land server, which has one of the best collections of mods.

   In comparison to Minecraft, I can say that the performance is indeed faster—since even low-end computers can run the game without issues, as long as you use the right settings.

   Mesecons and Pipeworks mods extend a lot the creative possibilities. We can make a variety of algorithms with them.

   Positive comment by mega-rut · May 22, 2024

   Everyone likes Minetest but it is not compatible with Minecraft. I recently googled Minecraft web client and found mcraft fun which is also open source, worked insanely well in my case, and I wish there were more projects like this. Like compatible with Minecraft in any way: make some migrations tools or anything, please! But still a very interesting project with a large community though!

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   • Luanti (formerly Minetest) is Free and Open SourceMinecraft is Paid and Proprietary
   • Luanti (formerly Minetest) is LightweightMinecraft is not according to our users
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   Creativerse: The Definitive Edition

    25 likes

   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!

   65 Creativerse: The Definitive Edition alternatives

   Cost / License

   • Paid
   • Proprietary

   Application type

   • Sandbox Game

   Origin

   • United States

   Platforms

   • Windows
   • Steam

   • United States

   

   

   

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   Top Positive Comment by Guest · Jul 26, 2020

   The graphics are better than minecraft, the paint feature gives more options when building. There's blocks that aren't just cubes, and the blueprint functionality makes it easy to build towns or cities using community made builds.

   Positive comment by Guest · Jun 15, 2020

   It is good and very similar to monecraft

   Positive comment by Guest · Jun 14, 2020

   really fun and beautiful graphics

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   • Creativerse: The Definitive Edition is Paid and ProprietaryMinecraft is also Paid and Proprietary
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   Terasology

    34 likes

   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.

   64 Terasology alternatives

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source (Apache-2.0)

   Application typeApplication types

   • Sandbox Game
   • Crafting Game

   Origin

   • Germany
   • EU

   Platforms

   • Mac
   • Windows
   • Linux

   • Germany
   • EU

   

   

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   Positive comment by Mino Developer · Apr 12, 2023

   It has awesome graphics, but not a very easy interface. Question: How do I play in creative mode?

   Positive comment by Guest · Nov 16, 2020

   It has the BEST graphics EVER

   Positive comment by Guest · Feb 20, 2016

   I want to play terasology and i think it is the best alternative

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   • Terasology is Free and Open SourceMinecraft is Paid and Proprietary
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   Veloren

    58 likes

   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.

   25 Veloren alternatives

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source (GPL-3.0)

   Application typeApplication types

   • Sandbox Game
   • Crafting Game

   Origin

   • International

   Platforms

   • Mac
   • Windows
   • Linux

   • Global

   

   

   

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   VoxeLibre (formerly MineClone2)

    28 likes

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

   57 VoxeLibre (formerly MineClone2) alternatives

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source (AGPL-3.0)

   Application typeApplication types

   • Sandbox Game
   • Crafting Game

   Origin

   • Germany
   • EU

   Platforms

   • Mac
   • Windows
   • Linux
   • Minetest

   • Germany
   • EU

   

   

   

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   VoxeLibre (formerly MineClone2) vs Minecraft Comments

   Positive comment by tuxayo · Aug 12, 2019

   Experience very similar. Many Minecraft features are there.

   Negative comment by maurosoft391 · Mar 12, 2022

   is buggy and the world is too small

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   • VoxeLibre (formerly MineClone2) is Free and Open SourceMinecraft is Paid and Proprietary
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   LEGO Worlds

    33 likes

   Galaxy of procedural worlds made entirely from LEGO bricks.

   Cost / License

   • Paid
   • Proprietary

   Application typeApplication types

   • Sandbox Game
   • Crafting Game

   Origin

   • United Kingdom

   Platforms

   • Windows
   • Steam
   • Playstation
   • Xbox

   • United Kingdom

   

   

   

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   LEGO Worlds vs Minecraft Comments

   Positive comment by Guest · Jan 21, 2017

   A great alternative which uses lego bricks instead of traditional blocks.

   Positive comment by TiQuel Johnson · Mar 31, 2019

   it is like crazycraft but lego

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   • LEGO Worlds is Paid and ProprietaryMinecraft is also Paid and Proprietary
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   The Blockheads

    18 likes

   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?

   What wil.

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Proprietary

   Application typeApplication types

   • Sandbox Game
   • Crafting Game

   Origin

   • New Zealand

   Platforms

   • Android
   • iPhone
   • Android Tablet
   • iPad

   • New Zealand

   

   

   

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   Positive comment by Guest · Nov 9, 2018

   Has the same voxel feel but with different features and a 2D side view, and it even has servers, sadly has no mods

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   • The Blockheads is Free and ProprietaryMinecraft is Paid and Proprietary
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    Vintage Story

     13 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

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application typeApplication types

    • Sandbox Game
    • Survival Game

    Origin

    • Germany
    • EU

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux

    • Germany
    • EU

    

    

    

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    Comment by Sleeves Anon · Jun 14, 2023

    Absolutely a better game than minecraft in my opinion, but the reality is most audiences who still like minecraft will not like this. It's much more realistic, detailed, and hence more effort is required to play. Also, by default it has much harder survival mechanics, like food preservation and temperature.

    Positive comment by Guest · Dec 25, 2019

    Minecraft may have a lot of features, but Vintage Story has a more realistic feel to it. From the videos I have watched, I can tell I will be picking up this masterpiece of a game.

    Positive comment by grawolfquinn · Mar 30, 2020

    An amazing, fun game with great modding support and a ton of good gameplay features.

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    • Vintage Story is Paid and ProprietaryMinecraft is also Paid and Proprietary
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    Voxelands

     21 likes

    The Fun-Focused Free Software Voxel World Game. Voxelands is a sandbox construction game based on Minetest.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application typeApplication types

    • Sandbox Game
    • Crafting Game

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux

    

    

    

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    eaglercraft

     5 likes

    Minecraft is a game about breaking and placing blocks. At first, people built structures to protect against nocturnal monsters, but as the game grew players worked together to create wonderful, imaginative things.

    45 eaglercraft alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Online

    

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    MCRAFT.FUN

     7 likes

    Free, online, compatible and open source Minecraft web client with ability to connect to Java servers and load or create single player worlds to play offline.

    49 MCRAFT.FUN alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    • Minecraft Launcher

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Minecraft

    

    

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    Minetest Game

     10 likes

    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.

    27 Minetest Game alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application typeApplication types

    • Sandbox Game
    • Crafting Game

    Origin

    • Germany
    • EU

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
    • BSD
    • Minetest

    • Germany
    • EU

    

    

    

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    Negative comment by maurosoft391 · Feb 25, 2023

    Take too much time to load a world. The loading time is too slow

    Comment by RemovedUser · Feb 17, 2024

    Minetest Game is not really a game but more of a modding base for Minetest.

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    • Minetest Game is Free and Open SourceMinecraft is Paid and Proprietary