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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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In short: Games like Minecraft: Java Edition

Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes Minecraft: Java Edition special. The reasons are listed right on each game.

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Raft

92 %Match

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

Brings what grabs you about Minecraft: Java Edition: building and crafting, a sandbox with your own goals as well as scarce resources and survival.

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

Sandbox with your own goals

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.

Astroneer

Building and crafting

As an astronaut you explore colorful planets, reshape terrain like clay with your terrain tool, and build bases with automated production chains. A relaxed mix of discovery, gathering and tinkering, solo or in co-op.

Hytale

Sandbox with your own goals

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.

Terraria

Sandbox with your own goals

A 2D sandbox adventure where you dig, build and craft while ever-tougher bosses unlock new gear tiers and biomes. Its huge item pool and hidden secrets make it a near-endless experience, especially with friends.

CastleMiner Z

Sandbox with your own goals

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

Sandbox with your own goals

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.

Scrap Mechanic

Sandbox with your own goals

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.

Aloft

Sandbox with your own goals

In Aloft you turn floating islands into flying skyships and explore a cloud-filled world solo or in co-op. This survival sandbox focuses on laid-back building, discovery and curing a fungus-ravaged ecosystem.

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