Games like Minecraft
Love digging, building and surviving in Minecraft? These are the games that give you the same feeling, alone or with friends.
Minecraft is one of the best-selling games in the world because it hands you a world and lets you decide the rest. Many other games have taken that idea in new directions. These are the ones we recommend, sorted by what you like most about Minecraft.
If you like digging for treasure
Terraria is the closest you will get to Minecraft in 2D. You dig down through layers of dirt and stone, find ore, craft better gear and fight bosses that keep getting harder. Core Keeper views the world from above and takes place entirely underground, where you explore caves, grow food and build a base. Both can be played with friends.
If you like surviving and building
Valheim is Minecraft for grown-up Vikings. You end up in a Norse afterlife, chop trees, build longhouses and sail out to face the bosses. Enshrouded has block-based building where you can reshape the terrain freely, in a world covered in poisonous fog. In Raft you start on a tiny raft in the middle of the ocean and grow it into a floating base, and Palworld lets you catch creatures that help with the building.
If you like building big things
If you spend most of your time on redstone and automatic farms, Satisfactory is the game for you. You build factories on an alien planet, link them with conveyor belts and optimise everything until it runs by itself. No Man's Sky gives you a whole universe to explore, with planets you can land on and build bases on.
More Minecraft
If you would rather have more of Minecraft itself, there are two spin-offs set in the same world. Minecraft Dungeons is an action game where up to four players fight through caves and castles together. Minecraft Legends is a strategy game where you rally allies and defend the Overworld against the piglins.
