With better games than Minecraft? Not many. Not many at all.
Any game that isn't a building game is immediately disqualified from consideration, since most games focus on you consuming level content made by others instead of expressing your own creativity, and no such game can be considered better than Minecraft. And Minecraft is simply the best building game out there, I'm open to suggestions but I've seen and played a lot of building / digital lego games and none of the rest can hold a candle to Minecraft balance of streamlined simplicity and creative versatility.
If you're looking for a game that is specifically about building and sailing battleships, or cars, or rockets, or cities, then there are better games than Minecraft. But minecraft is more generalist, you can build anything from cute cottages to digital computers in minecraft, it has the broadest general appeal of any building game I've ever heard of.
It was pretty obvious to me from the start, from the beta days in 2010 anyway, that Minecraft would be a massive success. Even in that early state all the elements were there to make it massively successful. And compared to other digital lego games at that time, it was hands down the best there was. I've seen Infiniminer, don't try to tell me that it was pure luck that Minecraft succeeded where Infiniminer languished in obscurity.
Any game that isn't a building game is immediately disqualified from consideration, since most games focus on you consuming level content made by others instead of expressing your own creativity, and no such game can be considered better than Minecraft. And Minecraft is simply the best building game out there, I'm open to suggestions but I've seen and played a lot of building / digital lego games and none of the rest can hold a candle to Minecraft balance of streamlined simplicity and creative versatility.
If you're looking for a game that is specifically about building and sailing battleships, or cars, or rockets, or cities, then there are better games than Minecraft. But minecraft is more generalist, you can build anything from cute cottages to digital computers in minecraft, it has the broadest general appeal of any building game I've ever heard of.
It was pretty obvious to me from the start, from the beta days in 2010 anyway, that Minecraft would be a massive success. Even in that early state all the elements were there to make it massively successful. And compared to other digital lego games at that time, it was hands down the best there was. I've seen Infiniminer, don't try to tell me that it was pure luck that Minecraft succeeded where Infiniminer languished in obscurity.