6 Similar Games Short List
Here are our hand-picked short list of similar games; the perfect thing to play next if you enjoyed Trove. We don't use automatic matching, instead, we hand-pick games that are good to play if you have enjoyed Trove.
Release Date: 25/11/2013, updated in 2019
Platforms: 3DS and 2DS, Amazon Fire, Android, Mac, PC, PS Vita, PS3, PS4, Stadia, Switch, Wii U, Xbox 360, Xbox One and iOS
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On, Day and Night, Pixels and Weather
Terraria looks like a 2D, lesser, version of Minecraft. However, this is a game every bit as complex and creative as the better-known block building game. To the world-crafting and survival it adds hundreds of items to collect, characters to defeat and...
Release Date: Coming soon
Platforms: PC
Skill Rating: 14+ year-olds
Components: 3D First-Person
Dark and Darker is a last-team-standing online fighting game where teams race to explore an ancient citadel with a band of friends. Play involves moving through the dark caverns to find treasures, battle monsters and stay ahead of the other...
Release Date: 10/06/2019
Platforms: Mac, PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person and Blocks
Riverbond is a frantic adventure in a blocky world. With four people on one system, you take on an adventure to defeat evil and free the charming citizens. It's a brawling game with an emphasis on fun and over-the-top cartoon combat.
Release Date: 28/02/2018
Platforms: Mac and PC
Skill Rating: 11+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person, Blocks, Open World and Weather
Stormworks is an open world adventure where you design, build and pilot your own air sea rescue service. You create programmable vehicles using it's block-building system and pilot them into dangerous situations to rescue stricken vessels or...
Release Date: 21/11/2019, updated in 2020
Platforms: PC, Switch, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person, Blocks and Open World
The Touryst is a puzzle based adventure, where you seek to unlock the mysteries of an archipelago of sun-drenched islands. That's if you want to of course, because the adventure can wait if you'd rather soak up the sun and make the most of your time...
Release Date: 26/10/2016, updated in 2017
Platforms: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 6+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person, Blocks, Cartoon, Day and Night and Open World
Lego Worlds takes virtual building back to the classic bricks with familiar figures, buildings and challenges from other Lego video games in an open world where your imagination can go wild in a bottomless bucket of bricks.
19 Similar Games Long List
Here are our hand-picked long list of similar games; the perfect thing to play next if you enjoyed Trove. We don't use automatic matching, instead, we hand-pick games that are good to play if you have enjoyed Trove.
Release Date: 26/05/2020
Platforms: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person and Blocks
Minecraft Dungeons is an action-adventure game that takes place in the Minecraft universe. You explore various dungeons to complete missions and collect new gear by exploring and finding treasure chests, or by defeating enemies....
Release Date: 22/09/2014
Platforms: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 11+ year-olds
Components: 3D First-Person, Cartoon, Day and Night and Open World
The Long Dark is a thoughtful exploration-survival game where you have crash-landed in the icy Canadian wilderness after a global disaster and must find a way to survive. Through exploring, crafting and fighting you must look after your body...
Release Date: 23/11/2017, updated in 2019
Platforms: 3DS and 2DS, Amazon Fire, Android, Mac, PC, PS Vita, PS3, PS4, Wii U, Xbox 360, Xbox One and iOS
Skill Rating: 6+ year-olds
Components: 3D First-Person, Blocks, Day and Night and Open World
Although Minecraft – where players place blocks to build structures, sculpt the landscape and create adventures – is the best-selling game of all time, some of the best aspects of it are little known. Along with the exploration, building and...
Release Date: 19/01/2017, updated in 2023
Platforms: Android, Mac, PC, PS4, Switch, Xbox One and iOS
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person and Open World
Bed Wars is a game played on Minecraft (since 2017) or Roblox servers (since 2021). It's a team game where you start on an island and must protect your bed and build bridges to attack other teams' beds. The trick is the ecosystem of items and crafting...
Release Date: 08/08/2017, updated in 2018
Platforms: PC, PS4, Switch, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 3D First-Person, Day and Night and Open World
This game offers hunting-and-harvesting gameplay in a primal setting. Although not as polished or streamlined as a game like Horizon Zero Dawn, this is a more ambitiously open world where you can choose your own way to survive. With crafting and...
Release Date: 31/05/2019
Platforms: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 3D First-Person, Blocks, Day and Night, Open World and Pixels
PixArk is an adventure game similar to the more complex (and violent) game Ark: Survival Evolved. With a simpler interface and Minecraft=style block building, it's a survival game that never gets too scary while also inviting ambitious play and...
Release Date: 21/05/2019
Platforms: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person, Cartoon and Open World
Dauntless is an action fighting video game where you play a monster hunter in a fantasy world. Cataclysmic events have released Behemoth creatures that prey on the surviving humans. You play a monster hunter who hunts and kills large fantasy creatures,...
Release Date: 01/01/2011, updated in 2022
Platforms: Mac, PC and iOS
Skill Rating: 6+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person, Cartoon, Day and Night and Open World
Star Stable Online is a hugely popular adventure game where you care for horses, take on daily challenges, solve mysteries and explore a fantasy online world. Originally only available for PC and Mac, it's recently come to mobile devices. Star Stable...
Release Date: 06/02/2018
Platforms: Mac and PC
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 3D First-Person, Blocks, Day and Night and Open World
Eco extends the resource-collecting and building of Minecraft by introducing environmental implications to your actions. Using resources like trees will erode the soil; mining might pollute the river; and each animal depends on another.
Release Date: 18/08/2021
Platforms: Android and iOS
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead and Grid
Everdale is an online strategy game where you build a village. With the help of friends you develop a society that survives on the basis of savvy cooperation. Unlike other civilisation games though, there is no fighting or combat. The focus is on...
Release Date: 17/10/2019, updated in 2022
Platforms: Mac, PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person and Blocks
Autonauts is an adventure game where you tame new worlds. You start with a blank slate similar to Sim City, but here you must build each dwelling, tools, and vehicle yourself. It’s a task that’s too complex for any one person to handle. You are soon...
Release Date: 25/02/2016, updated in 2017
Platforms: Android, PC, PS4, Switch, Xbox One and iOS
Skill Rating: 11+ year-olds
Components: 3D First-Person, Blocks, Day and Night and Open World
Portal Knights is an adventure set in a Minecraft-like world, but that focuses much more on role-play and characters. You still have the exploration and building elements, but also more story and monsters to take down.
Release Date: 12/10/2022
Platforms: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person, Blocks and Cartoon
Lego Bricktales is a physics-based puzzle where you work to help your grandfather relaunch his rundown amusement park. You explore a series of jungle, desert, city, castle and island dioramas to help people by building things. Unlike other Lego games...
Release Date: 24/04/2020, updated in 2021
Platforms: PC and Switch
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On, Day and Night and Pixels
Nira is a survival game where pixelated characters explore the primitive world to find resources to survive. It's unusual not only because of its basic art style but because its simplicity gives rise to emergent and open play. Something like a cross...
Release Date: 18/04/2023
Platforms: PC, PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person, Blocks and Pixels
Minecraft Legends is an action-strategy game where you lead troops into battle to defend the Minecraft over-world. You unite the characters of Minecraft to defend their land by constructing forts, fighting enemies with swords...
Release Date: 30/01/2017
Platforms: PC, PS4, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
Components: 3D Third-Person, Day and Night and Open World
Conan Exiles is an online survival game, set in the lands of Conan the Barbarian. Similar to games like Ark or Green Hell, you start with nothing and must use resources you find in the open-world sandbox. On your own or with friends, you build a base...
Release Date: Coming soon
Platforms: PC, PS5 and Xbox Series X|S
Skill Rating: 11+ year-olds
Components: 3D First-Person, Cartoon, Day and Night, Open World and Weather
Wildmender is a world building game where you unearth the past in the desert. Play involves exploring to discover what has gone before, so you can restore the environment for your future. You work to revive withering plant life, cultivate a garden and...
Release Date: 27/06/2020
Platforms: Mac and PC
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead
Lairchitect is a strategy game where you build defences in your dungeon to prevent heroes from taking your Soul Stones. It's a twist on dungeon role playing games, where instead of playing the hero you are the owner of the dungeon (like the classic...
Release Date: 22/11/2022
Platforms: PC
Skill Rating: 13+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead, Day and Night, Grid, Pixels and Weather
Zero Sievert is a retro shooting and survival game where you scavenge a wasteland to find gear and supplies to stay alive in a hard devastated world. You play by stealthily exploring buildings and forests to find and modify weapons. The trick is then...
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