Build, explore, and survive in a blocky world
Draw a line, watch a sledge ride it, and lose an evening building a track that lands the jump.
Build the levels instead: five art styles, a story mode of a hundred courses and endless uploads from everyone else.
Transport Tycoon Deluxe rebuilt as open source and still patched: bigger maps, better trains, no bankruptcy screen.
Rico Rodriguez, a grappling hook and four island dictatorships to pull down.
A full-loot sandbox where every item is crafted by a player and the territory map is drawn by guilds.
A survival sandbox where the real danger is the other players; the ArmA mod that started the genre, finished as its own game.
Into early access in February 2023 and left there: the studio was shut down in 2024 and the last patch landed that June.
Solis, where a tornado crosses the map and lifts whatever Rico has not already blown up.
Medici, an unlimited supply of grappling tethers and a wingsuit you are not obliged to land.
Rico Rodriguez topples San Esperito by stepping off one moving car onto another, with a parachute that never packs away.
Soft-body physics where a car deforms panel by panel; a crash sandbox rather than a championship.
Build a track out of loops and corkscrews, then watch the replay of the crash from six cameras.
Millions of user-made games in one client; the platform every child is on.
A virtual world with its own economy since 2003; not a game, the residents insist.
Eight galaxies, wireframe ships and free trade; the game that invented open-ended space.
A physics sandbox on the Source engine; Prop Hunt, Trouble in Terrorist Town and Gmod videos.
Click to build a colourful island town with no goal; Oskar Stalberg's toy.
Factorio in first-person 3D; Coffee Stain's conveyor belts.
Drive a lorry across Europe at the speed limit and relax; the cult sim from Prague.
Automate a factory on an alien planet until the biters come; the game engineers lose weeks to.
Build rockets, kill Kerbals, learn orbital mechanics by accident.
The deepest simulation in games, now with graphics; losing is fun.
Every pixel simulated and wands that can be edited; the roguelike that kills you with your own spell.
A goat, ragdoll physics and a city; the joke that sold millions.
Tame dinosaurs and build a tribe; survival with a T. rex.
Wake naked on a beach, build, get raided at 3 a.m.; the survival game about other people.
Ten friends build a Viking longhouse and sail to fight trolls; the 2021 early-access hit.
Eighteen quintillion planets and the comeback from a broken launch; Hello Games.
Crew a pirate ship with friends and sing shanties; Rare's shared world.
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