Games like Minecraft

4.0average player rating•5 games

Minecraft's pull is the blank page: a world with no script, where the goal is whatever you decide to build. These keep that freedom — gather, craft, build, repeat — while each one bends the formula somewhere different.

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Games5

Avg. Metacritic77

Avg. player rating4.0/5

Avg. playtime11h

Main genreIndie

Released2011–2024

What these games share

The genres these 5 picks have in common, straight from their store data.

Indie5 of 5
Action4 of 5
Adventure4 of 5

The picks

Ranked by player rating, Metacritic breaks ties.

1
Satisfactory
ActionAdventureStrategy
For when your Minecraft builds turned into automation projects. Same instinct, industrial scale.
4.3/5Player ratingView game
2
Terraria
ActionIndiePlatformer
The same dig-craft-build loop, flattened to 2D and packed with far more bosses and gear to chase.
4.1/5Player ratingMC81View game
3
Valheim
ActionAdventureIndie
Building and survival with real weight — every base you raise has to hold against what comes at night.
4.0/5Player ratingView game
4
Core Keeper
ActionAdventureRPG
Mine, farm, and light up an underground world — the cozy end of the sandbox, best with friends.
3.9/5Player ratingView game
5
Astroneer
AdventureIndie
Terraforming as a toy: reshape whole planets with a vacuum gun, with no combat pressure.
3.8/5Player ratingMC73View game