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Games like Minecraft: Java Edition

2011USK 6PC

The definitive sandbox: mine, craft, survive the nights and build anything you can imagine in an endless procedurally generated block world, solo or with friends on servers. The Java Edition adds a massive modding community on top.

Sandbox with your own goals
Building and crafting
Open world
Resources and survival

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Raft

93 %Match

2022USK 12PC, PlayStation, Xbox, Steam Deck playable93 % positive20.49 €

You begin on a tiny raft in the middle of the ocean, collecting debris, expanding your floating home and exploring islands while sharks circle. Solo or in co-op, survival turns into a laid-back crafting and discovery voyage with a mysterious story.

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Creativerse

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Systems like Minecraft: Java Edition

A colorful sandbox survival game about gathering, crafting and building elaborate structures. You explore a procedurally generated voxel world full of caves, biomes and creatures, solo or with friends.

Hytale

Mood like Minecraft: Java Edition
Systems like Minecraft: Java Edition

A voxel sandbox adventure that blends block building and exploring a procedurally generated fantasy world with RPG-style combat, dungeons and creatures. Powerful modding and server tools turn it into a platform for custom minigames and worlds.

Kingdom Two Crowns

Mood like Minecraft: Java Edition
Systems like Minecraft: Java Edition

As a mounted monarch you gather coins, recruit subjects and grow a realm that you must defend each night from greedy creatures. This minimalist side-scroller pairs moody pixel art with a calm yet demanding build-and-defend rhythm.

Survivalcraft

Mood like Minecraft: Java Edition
Systems like Minecraft: Java Edition

You are marooned in an endless blocky world and must fend for yourself by mining, crafting, hunting and building shelter. Its appeal lies in the near-limitless freedom to build and the ability to construct complex electrical machines.

Scrap Mechanic

Systems like Minecraft: Java Edition
Combat like Minecraft: Java Edition

A colorful physics sandbox where you engineer your own vehicles and contraptions from parts. Its survival mode has you and friends scavenging and farming on a planet overrun by hostile Farmbots.

Stranded Deep

Mood like Minecraft: Java Edition
Systems like Minecraft: Java Edition

After a plane crash you're stranded in the Pacific, scavenging scattered islands for food, water and shelter while building rafts and fending off sharks. Its UI-light, physics-based crafting and beautiful yet dangerous ocean setting define the experience.

CastleMiner Z

Systems like Minecraft: Java Edition
Combat like Minecraft: Java Edition

A blocky sandbox survival game set in an endless world: you build, craft weapons and tools, and fight off zombies and other monsters alone or with friends.

Planet Crafter

Systems like Minecraft: Java Edition
Combat like Minecraft: Java Edition

You terraform a hostile planet by gathering resources, building bases and machines, and watching a barren wasteland slowly gain atmosphere, water and life. The blend of calm survival and visible, large-scale progress is what makes it special.

Wildmender

Mood like Minecraft: Java Edition
Systems like Minecraft: Java Edition

In a parched desert world you bring land and plants back to life, grow gardens and survive thirst and dangers, solo or with up to three friends. Restoring and exploring take priority over combat.