Five great games like Minecraft | Games | Geek.com

Minecraft has had an enormous impact on the gaming industry. It basically invented the ?buy as an alpha and get free updates? model, and also helped spark the new wave of indie game popularity. It also essentially created a new genre ? much in the way that?DotA created the MOBA genre. From that, the genre quickly filled up with games similar to?Minecraft. Some are eerily similar, some just use the base mechanics of a blocky (voxel-based), malleable world and add completely new game mechanics on top, but whatever the final game turns out to be, it?s pretty obviously inspired by Mojang?s first hit.

Here are some worthwhile games like Minecraft?

Ace of Spades

If you are a fan of?Team Fortress?and Minecraft, then Ace of Spades is a must-play. Mixing Minecraft with elements of the two aforementioned FPS shooters, this free-to-play game is incredibly fun. Each player is armed with one of three different ranged weapons (rifle, machine gun, or shotgun), as well as a ?spade that can be used for melee attacks or construction tasks.

What is in essence a first-person shooter, Ace of Spades adds a whole layer of creativity because you can interact with your surroundings to build things. Want to build a castle to protect your team? No problem! Want to try to get the jump on your opponents by digging your way under their base then popping up in the middle? You can do that as well. With a sandbox world, the replay value is incredibly high since you won?t get bored playing the same maps over and over.

As mentioned above, the game is totally free to play and download.

FortressCraft

FortressCraft may look a lot like Minecraft, but it?s only available on the Xbox 360, and supports multiplayer via Xbox Live. It ditches the 8-bit pixelated textures for smooth surfaces, and while the objects, blocks, and buildings still have that familiar blocky appeal, they?re more detailed when you?re close to them.

FortressCraft was built by ProjectorGames, and has many of the same elements that Minecraft does: you can build anything, harvest resources from a huge, open world, set up a home for yourself, deck it out in items that you?ve created or objects you?ve encountered, and of course, battle enemies bent on taking your resources.

FortressCraft is available for 80 Microsoft Points, or the equivalent of $1. Though?MineCraft is now available on the Xbox 360,?FortressCraft provides a cheaper alternative.

Next page: Manic Digger and two other great games like Minecraft?

Source: http://www.geek.com/articles/games/five-great-games-like-minecraft-2013012/

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