Games like Minecraft, sorted by what you love about it

Terraria, Hytale and LEGO Fortnite are the best-known games like Minecraft. Below they are sorted by the part you love most: surviving the night, building, or exploring with friends, with Roam voxel games you can play on an iPhone.

Why Minecraft is hard to replace

Minecraft is made by Mojang Studios, owned by Microsoft, and was fully released in 2011. It is the best-selling video game of all time. Survival mode makes you gather, craft and hide from mobs at night. Creative mode gives you every block and no danger.

Most games copy one of those two modes. Pick the list that matches the mode you play most.

If you love Survival

Terraria. Re-Logic's 2D sandbox from 2011. Dig, build, fight bosses. It is on PC, consoles and phones, with multiplayer.
LEGO Fortnite. Free survival crafting inside Fortnite. Build a village, gather, craft and fight, with friends.
Hytale. Hypixel Studios' block RPG, in early access since January 13, 2026, on Windows, Mac and Linux. Dungeons, creatures and a big modding focus.

If you love building with friends

Roblox. Not one game but millions, and many are blocky survival or building games. Free on phones.
Bloxd.io. A free voxel game on the web with building, parkour and survival modes.
Fortnite Creative. Players build whole islands and share them by code. Free to play.

Minecraft-like games on Roam

Roam is a free iPhone app. These voxel games give you a goal right away.

BLOCKSURVIVE. Punch a tree. Craft a tool. Last the night.
Hold Till Dawn. First-person voxel survival: build up before the dark.
Don't Go Down. A voxel dungeon crawl. The chest opens and the floor goes down.
WAYFARE: Wildlands. A blocky valley, a quest marker and goblins on the road.
Raid the Hollow. A Minecraft Dungeons-style action crawl: clear the burrow, then the next one.