
05
Minecraft
9.2/10Sandbox survivalPCMobileConsoleBuy to play2011
A block, a world, and fifteen years of people finding out what that means.

Rank12
Sandbox

Two dimensions, five hundred hours, and a boss list that keeps going.
Terraria is routinely mistaken for a Minecraft variant and is a substantially different game. Its world is finite and hand-generated in layers, its progression is gated behind bosses rather than exploration, and its combat is a real system with hundreds of weapons that behave differently. Beating a boss changes the world, new ores spawn, new enemies appear, whole biomes shift.
Re-Logic has released several final updates now, each larger than the last, and the 1.4 line left it with well over five hundred items and a hardmode progression that runs far longer than the pre-hardmode game most players remember. It supports eight-player co-op, costs very little, and runs on essentially anything.
Terraria sits in our best sandbox games ranking at position 2.
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