Minecraft Alternatives

Minecraft is described as 'Venture into endless 3D worlds where creativity meets exploration and survival. Craft, build, and explore to your heart’s content against ongoing challenges' and is a leading Sandbox Game in the games category. There are more than 100 games similar to Minecraft for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Android, Linux and Steam apps. The best Minecraft alternative is Luanti (formerly Minetest), which is both free and Open Source. Other Minecraft like games are SurvivalCraft, Creativerse: The Definitive Edition, Terasology and VoxeLibre (formerly MineClone2).

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  1. Junk Jack icon
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    Make the world truly yours in Junk Jack, a relaxing sandbox experience focused on building and improving your home. Discover new planets, tame and breed creatures, cook foods, collect animal companions, farm exotic plants, collect fish, grow flowers, play with your friends!

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • iPhone
    • iPad
     
  2. 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

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Steam
    • Playstation
    • Xbox
     
  3. Brutal Nature icon
     3 likes

    Brutal Nature is a multiplayer 3d survival PC game where everything in the game can be crafted and destroyed. Survive, crafting, building structures...

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Steam
     
  4. Blockscape icon
     30 likes

    Blockscape is the next generation voxel sandbox game. You play in a computer generated world made out of blocks.

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  5. Sky Nations icon
     9 likes

    Sky Nations is a multiplayer sandbox game where players can join together to build air ships(cannons and all!) and do battle across a vast world procedural world full of relics and machines from an ancient world waiting to be plundered by daring sky captains and their motley...

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  6. Masterspace icon
     2 likes

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

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Steam
     
  7. Voxel Turf icon
     2 likes

    Voxel Turf is a free-roaming voxel-based city building (and destroying) game, inspired by Minecraft, Simcity and the Grand Theft Auto series. The objective of this game for the player is to do whatever, and I mean whatever, they want.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  8. Stranded is a 3D survival game. You are playing the role of a castaway and your goal is to "simply" survive on the purportedly lonely island at whose sandy beach you have been washed up by the sweep of fate.

    24 Stranded (Series) alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Wine
     
  9. PixARK icon
     3 likes

    PixARK is a vast, wild world filled with vicious dinosaurs, magical creatures and endless adventure! To survive in this mysterious land, you must tame creatures both ferocious and cuddly, craft high tech and magical tools, and build your own base out of cubes.

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Steam
    • Xbox
     
  10. Create your own worlds with thousands of random players or friends online in Multiplayer mode or start your own survival game on the infinite randomly generated maps!

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once)
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Windows Mobile
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Windows Phone
    • iPad
    • Kindle Fire
    • Minecraft
    • Roblox
     
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    Comments about World of Cubes as an Alternative to Minecraft
    RavenJack00
    Positive
    0

    I like world of cubes because it features multiple worlds and the worlds are really good definitely give this a try

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
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    • World of Cubes is Freemium and ProprietaryMinecraft is Paid and Proprietary
  11. RealmCraft icon
     2 likes

    RealmCraft is a sandbox construction game with 3D procedurally generated infinity world. Create and break apart various kinds of blocks, explore the environment, gather resources, craft weapons, build shelter and take part in combat with dangerous opponents.

    20 RealmCraft alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once)
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Windows Phone
    • iPad
    • Oculus Experiences
    • Apple TV
    • Kindle Fire
    • Steam
    • itch.io
    • Oculus Rift
     
  12. Cube World icon
     13 likes

    Cube World is a voxel-based action RPG with a focus on exploration. It takes place in a procedurally generated fantasy world made up entirely of cubes.

    26 Cube World alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Steam
     
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    Comments about Cube World as an Alternative to Minecraft
    Guest
    Negative
    0

    Although their art style is similar, it stops shortly after that. Cube world is not as focused on building and mining as Minecraft and centered more around killing monsters and collecting items.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
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    • Most users think Cube World is a great Minecraft alternative.

    • Cube World is Paid and ProprietaryMinecraft is also Paid and Proprietary
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