19 Best Games Like Minecraft on PC

An empty plot is easier to get excited about when someone wants to live there. Dragon Quest Builders 2 takes Minecraft's block-by-block construction into a story about rebuilding communities. Villagers give you requests, and new recipes offer ideas for the next project. Choose it if you enjoy putting a settlement together but sometimes want a little direction.

The campaign is solo, with online building for up to four on the Isle of Awakening. Coming home with a new blueprint gives that shared island another reason to grow.

The hill blocking your view in LEGO Worlds is something you can reshape with a landscaping tool. Place individual LEGO bricks, alter terrain or drop a complete model into a scene, then adjust the surroundings until it belongs there. It's a strong match for the freedom of Minecraft Creative mode, with a very different box of pieces.

Prefab structures make large projects quick to start. You can place a building, sculpt land around it and then explore your creation from the back of a dragon.

Digging becomes almost sculptural in Astroneer. The Terrain Tool pulls material out of a slope or adds it back, so a rough path can become a ramp and a cliff can become a workshop entrance. Minecraft players who enjoy reshaping their surroundings will find plenty to do on these rounded planets.

Bases use snap-together equipment and power connections, with oxygen tethers marking safe routes. A line of tethers leading down a tunnel makes the landscape you've carved feel like part of a growing expedition.

Choose a Warrior, Mage or Ranger, then look for somewhere to put your castle in Portal Knights. Its block-built islands should feel familiar, while classes and boss fights give exploration a clearer RPG structure. Portals carry you between separate islands, so the adventure advances in a different way from Minecraft's continuous world.

Creative Mode is there for bigger construction plans. You can also bring friends along, with four-person co-op or two-player split-screen, and turn a private island into a home for the characters you've met.

The best reason for a Minecraft tinkerer to try Satisfactory is the moment a complicated machine finally works. Lay foundations, connect production lines and turn an alien landscape into a factory that supplies its own next expansion. The emphasis is on automation and construction across a fixed world, so plan around the terrain you find.

The logistics can become the scenery. A train arriving with materials from a distant outpost gives you another moving part to watch from a walkway above your carefully routed belts.

A farm in Staxel is a building project you can keep changing. Its editable voxel world invites the same small decisions as a Minecraft village, from where a path should go to how a farmhouse should look. Farming and helping your neighbors give those choices a gentle daily routine.

There are no combat encounters to interrupt a decorating session. Friends can share the farm or set themselves up nearby, so a quiet row of houses can become a neighborhood whose buildings each reflect a different player's taste.

One planet may have the materials you need, while another has the place you want to live. Starbound gives Minecraft's digging and decorating a side-on view and a starship to carry you between worlds. Follow its story or spend your time establishing colonies and collecting furnishings for the next home.

Your ship is a personal project too. Expand and decorate its interior, then bring tenants from a settlement into your crew. A familiar room can travel with you while the scenery outside changes from planet to planet.

What if the point of placing blocks was to see whether the result could fly? Trailmakers is an engineering branch of the Minecraft appeal, centered on vehicles you construct and test. Attach wheels, wings and engines, then find out how the shape behaves when physics gets a say.

Sandbox maps give inventions room to fail spectacularly. Move a part, try the launch again and watch a wobbling machine become something you can actually steer. Sharing a server lets friends bring their own designs to the same test ground.

A settlement in Colony Survival needs more than attractive walls. You build in a voxel world, recruit workers and arrange jobs that keep production moving. It's a natural choice if your favorite Minecraft projects are towns you wish felt busier, with people using the spaces you've laid out.

Pathfinding makes architecture matter. Stairs and bridges have to get workers where they need to go, while walls and guard positions must handle the monsters drawn to a growing colony. A beautiful entrance still needs someone watching it.

Mining in Core Keeper is also a way of drawing your future settlement. Cut passages through the dark, decide where the workshop belongs and turn the space around the Core into gardens and furnished rooms. It shares Minecraft's pleasure of making a place by removing material, with a top-down view that makes the layout easy to read.

Automation extends the project beyond decoration. Link resource gathering with processing equipment, then leave a tidy route back to the Core so the useful part of the cavern feels connected.

For someone who loves industrial Minecraft mods, Foundry has an immediate attraction. The ground is made of voxels you can excavate, and the factory is built from machines you connect into production lines. Dig out room for equipment or take the works up toward the sky as research unlocks more complex jobs.

Conveyors, pipes and elevators make the different levels work together. A shaft through the mountain can become the route linking a deep resource deposit with the huge structure you've built on the surface.

Sharing a world in Eco means deciding how a community should grow. You construct houses, roads and workshops in a voxel landscape, but different skills encourage players to trade and rely on one another. It suits Minecraft friends who enjoy a long-running town project and want the decisions around it to matter.

Pollution and resource use have consequences, and players can vote on laws enforced by the game. A forest beside the town can become something you protect together while finding materials for the next stage of construction.

The thing you build in TerraTech is often the thing you drive. Collect parts, attach them to a vehicle and experiment with a mix of wheels, weapons and machinery as you explore. It takes Minecraft's habit of improving a creation a few pieces at a time into an open-world vehicle adventure.

Creative mode gives you space to design freely, while the campaign makes new parts worth finding. A battered little rover can grow into a heavy resource hauler or an armed machine ready to challenge another prospector.

If your Minecraft village matters more to you than the mine beneath it, try Dinkum. Reshape land, lay out paths and choose where new shops should go as a small camp becomes a town. Farming, fishing and visitors set the pace, and major buildings have set designs rather than individual blocks you place.

The personal touches are where it shines. A line of flower beds, a fountain and furniture around your home can make the route between familiar shops feel like a place you designed for its residents.

A long tunnel in FortressCraft Evolved! is likely to end at a machine. Ore extractors and conveyors start a production chain that grows into power systems, processing lines and defenses. It's a niche recommendation for Minecraft players who love factory mods and want every stretch of excavation to feed the next piece of equipment.

Depth becomes part of the design challenge. Materials from deep underground need a route home, while the factory above needs energy and protection. Watching that system deliver ore gives a newly dug shaft a purpose.

A door, a walking machine or an absurd vehicle can start with a question in Scrap Mechanic. Which part needs to turn? Bearings, pistons and controllers give Minecraft inventors a new set of tools for experiments, with Creative mode available when you want to concentrate on a mechanism.

The working parts are the attraction. Connect a controller, set a movement and test it until the pieces do what you intended. A row of blocks can unfold into a machine whose shape only makes sense after you press the switch.

The architecture is the reason for a Minecraft builder to choose Enshrouded. Voxel tools let you raise walls, alter terrain and cut a dwelling into a hillside, then furnish the rooms in detail. Its handcrafted fantasy world and action RPG adventures supply a different setting for the next grand construction project.

The building can follow the land instead of flattening it. A room cut into rock can open onto a terrace, with a fortress above it and the terrain doing part of the work of holding the design together.

A side-on view changes the way you plan a house in Terraria. You can see the rooms, tunnels and platforms as one connected design, then extend the build down into a world of diggable tiles. It suits Minecraft players who want their construction to sit beside a much larger emphasis on equipment and boss fights.

Wiring adds another layer to the design. Connect switches to doors or link teleporters across your world, and that long tunnel between two homes can become a journey you make with one activation.

A block in Space Engineers can be a thruster, a rotor or a working conveyor. For Minecraft players who love elaborate constructions, the appeal is seeing a design become a vehicle you can actually pilot. Creative mode gives you room to prototype ships and stations, with physics asking harder questions about how they fit together.

Your decisions become obvious at launch. A heavy ship needs the right arrangement of thrust, and a successful test flight is the moment the carefully assembled structure stops being a model and starts being transport.