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. Lunacraft icon
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    A game where you are on the moon and you must survive. There is crafting and many other strange things in this game.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • iPhone
    • iPad
     
  2. MineColony icon
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    MineColony is a sandbox game you have always dreamed of. Sink in procedurally generated world, harvest resources and build colony of your dreams. If you miss the good old days when pixels ruled the gaming world then MineColony is for YOU!.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Android
     
  3. Tricky Maze Game: Find the key and the exit in winding hallways. Electric fields and other traps lurk and demand your full attention. Includes a level editor.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  4. 8-Bit MMO icon
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    An 8bit-style 2D massively multiplayer game! It's a giant construction sandbox -- you can build a home or a castle in a persistent streaming world. Found and manage your own city. Fight evil Lawyercats and engage in player vs player battle.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
     
  5. MAGE icon
     2 likes

    MAGE stands for MAKE A GAME EXPERIENCE

    The goal for MAGE is to make it as easy as possible for people to create their own 3D universes, adventures and stories. PLAY WHILE YOU CREATE!.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  6. Pora Ora HQ icon
     3 likes

    Desktop game world where kids can customise their home, explore worlds, collect and care for their Pora Pals, & play educational games.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
     
  7. Avoyd icon
     1 like

    Avoyd Voxel Editor and Renderer Create, import, export and render large voxel worlds 3D art and rendering tool for voxel artists, map builders and game developers.

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  8. Paper Minecraft is a building game for you to experience everything from quarrying stone and wood to making tools to building buildings. Before starting the game, you can choose a character and a play mode (survival, creative or peace game mode).

    11 Paper Minecraft alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Scratch
     
  9. Cubyz icon
     1 like

    Cubyz is written in Zig, a rather small language with some cool features and a focus on readability.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  10. The Culling icon
     1 like

    In a remote island paradise, 16 contestants have 20 minutes to explore, scavenge items, craft weapons, build traps, hunt and kill each other.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Steam
     
  11. The ultimate casual mining experience, travel thousands of feet below the ground through randomly generated rocks and caves, get money and compete for high scores in a mining adventure that's never the same twice.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Android
     
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