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Games like Minecraft
Want more sandbox building games with endless creativity? Below are the games most like Minecraft — the titles that inspired it, the games sharing its DNA, and the ones it went on to influence. The interactive graph above lets you keep exploring from any of them.
Games similar to Minecraft
7 Days to Die2024Set in a brutally unforgiving post-apocalyptic world overrun by the undead, 7 Days to Die is an open-world game that is a unique combination of first person shooter, survival horror, tower defense, and role-playing games. It presents combat, crafting, looting, mining, exploration
Life is Feudal: Your Own2015Hardcore medieval multiplayer sandbox with terraforming, free preset and modular building construction, rich crafting (smelting, forging, farming, animal breeding etc.), survival, no target physics based combat, original combat formation system and numerous other features. Taking
Rising World2014Rising World is an open-world sandbox game with randomly generated, fully destructible environments. Starting with the most basic of tools, collect resources to survive in the wildness. Evolve your world to create one of the biggest cities of all time or a gigantic castle, or si
Miscreated2018Miscreated is a multiplayer online hardcore survival game set in a post-apocalyptic future. You will need to survive against mutants, players, and even mother nature herself.
Savage Lands2015A New Land, A New Life: Savage Lands is a gritty, brutal, first-person open-world fantasy survival experience in which players have only one goal: Stay Alive. Explore a world where days and nights are spent slaughtering vicious creatures, gathering scarce resources, building shel
Days Gone2019Days Gone is an open-world action-adventure game developed by Bend Studio and published by Sony Interactive Entertainment. Released in April 2019 for PlayStation 4 and later for PC in May 2021, the game is set in a post-apocalyptic world where players control Deacon St. John, a d
Force of Nature2016Force of Nature is an indie open world sandbox game with fighting, crafting, building and farming systems.
My Time at Portia2019Start a new life in the enchanting town of Portia! Restore your Pa's neglected workshop to its former glory by fulfilling commissions, growing crops, raising animals, and befriending the quirky inhabitants of this charming post-apocalyptic land!
Last Day on Earth: Survival2017Last Day on Earth is a free multiplayer zombie survival strategy game, where all survivors are driven by one target: stay alive and survive as long as you can and shoot walking dead zombies. There is no place left for friendship, love and compassion. A deadly plague pandemic has
Hytale2026Hytale combines the scope of a sandbox with the depth of a roleplaying game, immersing players in a procedurally generated world where teetering towers and deep dungeons promise rich rewards throughout their adventures. Hytale supports everything from block-by-block construction
The Minecraft series & family
Minecraft: Java Edition2011Minecraft focuses on allowing the player to explore, interact with, and modify a dynamically generated map made of one-cubic-meter-sized blocks. In addition to blocks, the environment features plants, mobs, and items. Some activities in the game include mining for ore, fighting h
- Minecraft: Cybersafe AI: Dig Deeper
Now is the Time to Build digital citizenship and AI literacy skills with CyberSafe AI: Dig Deeper! This engaging Minecraft Education adventure challenges students to go beyond the surface and explore AI ethics, critical thinking, and data literacy. Don’t just accept AI at Face va
Minecraft: Story Mode2015Minecraft: Story Mode is a five-part adventure series based on the sandbox building and exploration game Minecraft. Typical for Telltale games, it is a cinematic adventure where the story is driven through the player's choices. Decisions are carried over and influence characters
Minecraft: Story Mode - Season Two2017Minecraft: Story Mode - Season Two continues Jesse's saga in a five-part, narrative-driven, episodic game series developed by Telltale in collaboration with Mojang and members of the Minecraft community. Though players' choices from the first season will carry over into season tw
Minecraft: Legends2023Discover the mysteries of Minecraft Legends, a new action strategy game. Explore a gentle land of rich resources and lush biomes on the brink of destruction. The ravaging piglins have arrived, and it’s up to you to inspire your allies and lead them in strategic battles to save th
Minecraft: Xbox One Edition2014Build with your imagination! Minecraft, the best-selling game on Xbox 360, is now available on Xbox One. Create and explore your very own world where the only limit is what you can imagine - just be sure to build a shelter before night comes to keep yourself safe from monsters. P
Minecraft Earth2019"Minecraft Earth is an all-new augmented reality game you can play on your mobile devices that brings the Minecraft world into our universe! Through the lens of the game, you’ll be able to build creations with friends and place them in the real world at life-size. You’ll discover
Minecraft: Xbox 360 Edition2012Imagine it, build it! Minecraft: Xbox 360 Edition lets you create worlds from the comfort of your sofa. Play alone or play with your friends. Explore, build and conquer! At night monsters come out, so make sure to build a shelter before that happens. After that, your world is you
Minecraft: Java & Bedrock Edition2022Create, explore, survive, repeat. Get Minecraft: Java Edition and Bedrock Edition as a package deal for Windows! With Minecraft: Java & Bedrock Edition for Windows, you can easily switch between games using the unified launcher and cross-play with any current edition of Minecraft
Minecraft: PlayStation 4 Edition2014The critically acclaimed Minecraft comes to PlayStation 4. Create your very own game world and explore, build and conquer.
Minecraft: Nintendo Switch Edition2017Minecraft is a game about placing blocks and going on adventures. Explore randomly-generated worlds and build amazing things from the simplest of homes to the grandest of castles. Play in Creative Mode with unlimited resources or mine deep into the world in survival mode, craftin
Minecraft: Story Mode - Episode 1: The Order of the Stone2015As Jesse, you’ll embark on a perilous adventure across the Overworld, through the Nether, to the End, and beyond. While at EnderCon in hopes of meeting Gabriel the Warrior, you and your friends discover that something is wrong… something dreadful.
About Minecraft
Minecraft focuses on allowing the player to explore, interact with, and modify a dynamically-generated map made of one-cubic-meter-sized blocks. In addition to blocks, the environment features plants, mobs, and items. Some activities in the game include mining for ore, fighting hostile mobs, and crafting new blocks and tools by gathering various resources found in the game. The game's open-ended model allows players to create structures, creations, and artwork on various multiplayer servers or their single-player maps. Other features include redstone circuits for logic computations and remote actions, minecarts and tracks, and a mysterious underworld called the Nether. A designated but completely optional goal of the game is to travel to a dimension called the End, and defeat the ender dragon.
FAQ
- What games are similar to Minecraft?
- Some of the closest matches are 7 Days to Die, Life is Feudal: Your Own, Rising World, Miscreated, Savage Lands, Days Gone. Scroll back up to keep exploring in the interactive graph.
- What inspired Minecraft?
- Minecraft sits inside the Simulator / Adventure tradition. Shared themes, mechanics, and studio history all show up in the graph — see how we score the matches.