11 Games Like Trove
This assembled list of games like Trove lists other open world voxel adventures where you’ll explore, quest and loot in procedurally generated game worlds.
Launching off the success of the many sandbox games before it Trove took what made this genre popular while also reinventing some elements. As a foundation Trove uses a procedurally generated game world mixed in with crafting elements. Building on this basic structure Trove offers a selection of classes, countless foes and treasures to be found.
Multiplayer is the heart of the Trove experience with the game choosing to be very MMO-centric in comparison to other sand building games. This is facilitated through features such as cornerstones that allow players to claim a piece of game world for themselves and alter it to their desires. This is expanded through Club Worlds where entire worlds can be designed with friends.
The games like Trove found here offer other sandbox based adventures that let you explore randomly generated worlds alone and with friends while crafting countless items for use in battle.
Genshin Impact
Delivering a high quality predominately single player action role playing title with just a dusting of MMO design aesthetics Genshin Impact has a flashy world of colour waiting to explored by players that is full of magic, magic, fantasy and challenge. With it’s high action combat paired with this setting players are in for a dungeon hunting treat as they explore the world by themselves or with up to four players (unlocked after about a dozen hours of gameplay). With elements of the JRPG g...[Read Review]
Roblox
Roblox is a free to play online game with a focus on building and user generated content. In Roblox you can focus on creating or enter the thousands of worlds created by other players. Roblox has been online since 2005 and features a mostly teenager demographic with popular game modes such as battle royale, first person shooters, puzzles, mini games, role playing, survival games and tycoon games. Roblox is a huge MMO experience split between the various worlds that have been designed by other pl...[Read Review]
Rust
Rust is a survival game that comes from the same brains that brought you Garry’s Mod. Drawing inspiration from a wide range of games and genres you’ll find plenty of depth to explore while struggling to survive. The game is best described as a mixture of Minecraft and DayZ. In Rust players will spawn with nothing (other than a rock) and must adventure through the game world to gather food and resources for crafting. This world isn’t free of threats though with other players and animals able to k...[Read Review]
Cubic Castles
Embark on your own free to play cube adventure in Cubic Castles, in a game world built by players one custom cube at a time. Designed with community in mind Cubic Castles allows players to make friends, gather resources, farm, trade, build, quest and compete in platforming challenges within the 3D MMO inspired world of Cubic…[Read Review]
Cube World
Cube World stands out in the saturated voxel based game market with its many RPG features and impressive mechanics. Cube World is still in an early public alpha phase but is very much playable and already offers many features. By purchasing the game in its alpha or beta stage you will get a nice discount on the final game price. Getting in early also lets you help shape what will no doubt be an amazing game. The game is being developed by the small indie team known as Picroma. Before reading mor...[Read Review]
Kogama
Kogama offers a social based building experience for your browser or Android device that encourages the player community to create their own virtual worlds to house adventures, games, chat, story and everything in between. Similar to Roblox, Kogama is built on this design your own level principle which are then made accessi...[Read Review]
Wurm Online
Wurm Online is a sandbox style MMORPG that has a creative focus allowing you to create your own adventure. You can play Wurm Online with a basic account for free but to remove some restrictions you will have to commit to a subscription based premium account. The game also has a stand alone version released on Steam in 2015 called Wurm Unlimited. Fans of Minecraft will be pleased to know that Markus Persson himself worked on the game so there is definitely a Minecraft influence present (Wurm Onli...[Read Review]
Block Story
Block Story adds role playing elements to the gameplay popularised by Minecraft and other building block games. It’s available across a large range of platforms including Windows, iOS and Android with free and paid (Premium) options on mobile devices. Block Story was put together by two developers that wanted to create a Minecraft type game with RPG elements (quests, people, skills, levels). The game has been a labour of love for nearly two years before making its way to the public and is very i...[Read Review]
3079
3079 is a unique and challenging game that blends a number of genres together to create a sci-fi action role playing meets first person shooter experience. On the one hand you’ve got random generation and a voxel game world that feels like Minecraft but then you’ve got role playing and shooter elements that are more aligned with what the Borderlands or Fallout series has to offer. On paper it’s a weird mix of mechanics and settings but it all feels perfectly blended once you start your own 3079 ...[Read Review]
Portal Knights
Focusing on the adventure and survival elements of the Minecraft franchise Portal Knights offers a sandbox multiplayer experience that sees you fighting along friends as you craft items, fight monsters, destroy blocks and construct buildings. Unlike Minecraft though your adventure begins by picking one of the available classes being Warrior, Mage and Ranger which have unique skills and strengths within the game world. Spawning into the tutorial players will become familiar with the third person ...[Read Review]
FarSky
Offering a short ocean themed survival game FarSky explores what would happen if your submarine crashing into the bottom of the ocean. Playing as Nathan FarSky challenges players to survive through exploration, crafting and building necessary structures on the ocean floor. While a shorter gameplay loop than other sandbox survival games the randomly generated maps are designed to encourage players to continually challenge themselves with a new adventure. Diving into the ocean depths players will ...[Read Review]