Games That Do Building Better Than Minecraft

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The creativity of the Minecraft community may seem unmatched, but that doesn’t mean that there aren’t alternatives for those looking for different building experiences. In fact, some games have communities that have pushed the software to their very limits in order to build marvelous structures that still amaze people years after their creation. The sandbox games that rival Minecraft are games that have built a reputation for having communities and built-in sharing capabilities that have produced some amazing designs that other players have thoroughly explored.

While the action-oriented gameplay of Survival will always be present in Minecraft to give players a break from creating complex architecture and redstone contraptions, there are better games that allow for creative freedom. Many have systems that allow players to build more realistic or more detailed structures and bases in world seeds than Minecraft. All these games exist on a scale of approachability to complexity, with many being harder to get into but the ceiling for creativity in all these titles reaching higher than Minecraft.

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There may never be a sandbox game that captures Minecraft’s simple yet endlessly augmentable experience, but these games produce results that definitely give it a run for its money. Their tools provide a higher level of detail and their art styles are better at mimicking the real world. In the case of mechanics, triggered effects, and contraptions, these games also go much farther than Mojang's game can while being easier to learn than Minecraft's complex redstone calculations.

Planet Coaster’s approachability may seem good enough at first, but the game has a