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Blockade 3D is a fun Minecraft-inspired FPS with fully dynamic cubic worlds where you can build and destroy till your heart’s content.

Featuring a wide array of weaponry and lots of cool game-modes - including zombie mode and tank mode - that take place on huge, fully customisable maps with 32 players. There seems to be quite a few voxel based shooters in the works at the moment (Blockstorm, Block N’ Load), but Blockade 3D feels like the most authentically Minecrafty one at the moment.

Still early in development, Blockade 3D does have a few rough edges (most notably the in-game shop, which you’re best off ignoring), but it’s a fun FPS with fast paced block on block action - block rocking first person brutality.

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Block N Load is a chaotic multiplayer shooter where everything you build, destroy, construct or shoot in the fully transformable battle maps has devastating impact on the entire game.

With it’s voxel based maps offering tons of destructible terrain and building options, every match is different from the last. Multiplayer battles are wonderfully chaotic events full of destruction and block-based carnage. The fully transformable maps cater to a variety of play styles, with players able to build defences, tunnel under the map, or catapult over it, and be sneaky, devious, or destructive as they see fit.

Block N Load offers an great mix of Minecraft creativity and fun Team Fortress-style FPS teamwork. Blocky bombastic first person building & blasting.

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Block N Load is a chaotic multiplayer shooter where everything you build, destroy, construct or shoot in the fully transformable battle maps has devastating impact on the entire game.

With it’s voxel based maps offering tons of destructible terrain and building options, every match is different from the last. Multiplayer battles are wonderfully chaotic events full of destruction and block-based carnage. The fully transformable maps cater to a variety of play styles, with players able to build defences, tunnel under the map, or catapult over it, and be sneaky, devious, or destructive as they see fit.

Block N Load offers an great mix of Minecraft creativity and fun Team Fortress-style FPS teamwork. Blocky bombastic first person building & blasting.

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Scrolls is a great new Collectable Card Game (CCG) that has unenviable task of being Mojang’s follow-up to the supernova of success that is Minecraft. Those that are looking for something that will revolutionise the face of gaming will be sorely disappointed, but those looking for a thoroughly enjoyable CCG that combines the best bits of card and board games in one streamlined and well crafted package need look no further. Scrolls is here.

It’s an easy to pick-up game that has a remarkable attention to detail, with over 350 fully animated Scroll units, a crafting system, single-player campaigns and an array of multi-player gaming modes. All cards, apart from the four starter decks can be earned through play or traded with other players, and although you can use real currency to purchase scrolls, there’s really no need to - everything can be purchased for a reasonable price with the in-game currency.

After being in Beta for over a year, Scrolls is gearing up for it’s full release, with Mojang releasing a Beta Demo to give players a taste of Scrolls gameplay and to help identify any last minute bugs. The wonderful art style, animation, polish and deep tactical gameplay make for a thoroughly enjoyable Collectable Card Game that’ll keep you coming back for more. Is it Minecraft? Of course not. Is it a well crafted and rather addictive piece of Collectable Card Gaming? Damn right it is!

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Starlite Astronaut Academy is a space exploration and construction game that’s being build in conjunction with NASA, that allows players to build habitats and spacecraft, acquire gear and explore the solar system.

The game has a sandbox focus and multiplayer building action for casual play, modding and trading elements for social play, and science missions you can complete and share with friends.

Officially developed in conjunction with NASA, Starlite: Astronaut Academy will appeal to Minecraft players, space/simulation enthusiasts, future astronauts, and casual game players with an inkling of the right stuff and a taste for the unknown. Starlite: Astronaut Academy will be available for Windows, Mac and iPad in 2015.

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Pangenesis is an impressive procedurally generated online sandbox RPG where you explore, unearth secrets, conquer dungeons, solve puzzles, build and cross-breed the local wildlife to create your own virtual Island of Dr Moreau.

Obviously being a voxel based sandbox game there are some similarities to Minecraft, but Pangenesis has more classic RPG tropes - such as dungeons and extensive character customisation. Pangenesis also features Oculus Rift support, online multiplayer and the ability to alter characters DNA and cross-breed animals to make some pretty freaky looking creatures. It’s an ambitious RPG that allows you to shape the world and create new lifeforms - making you a God of all things voxel.

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Skysaga: Infinite Isles is a voxel based first person exploration and building game from the creators of the Dizzy games, where you build, craft, and engage in combat with your friends, exploring the game’s world with its floating islands and dangerous caves.

There’s no gameplay footage of the game yet, but judging by the trailer it looks like a mix of Oort Online with it’s open world online connectivity and it’s building and world structure, and Cube World’s look and gameplay style. Whatever it is, it seems interesting, and you’ll really want to check out what legendary Dizzy Developers - The Oliver Twins - have been up to lately.

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Trove has now entered Open Beta! Trove is an excellent action focused voxel-based sandbox massively multiplayer RPG that allows you to explore, fight and build, in a vibrant world that encourages exploration and feeds creativity.

As you travel the huge, ever changing worlds of Trove you’ll build, craft, mine and battle a variety of colourful enemies and bosses. Comparisons will no doubt be made to the mighty Minecraft due to it’s voxel based world and extensive (and impressive) building and crafting options. However, Trove is far more action/combat orientated and features a full RPG-style progression system, with classes (such as Gunslingers, Ninjas & Knights), loot, pets, XP, levelling, tons of customisation options and some very cool mounts (including some adorable little voxel-based ponies!).

There are new character classes released for Trove on a regular basis, usually accompanied by a new biome. It features an impressive sense of community, with almost every piece of gear, dungeon, and lair in the game created by Trove players, and feedback on the Reddit group helping to shape the game. It’s also a very welcoming place, with players happy to assist newbies with any questions.

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Izle is a beautiful, action adventure RPG where you build your own magical world using and summoning the power of the gods.

You’ll be creating whole floating islands, connecting them together, and continuing to advance with more diverse terraforming building powers. The islands are procedurally generated, and each time an island is generated it will have certain quests you have to finish successfully in order to get more island creation powers. Each island will be completely different from another with treacherous caverns, sky castles, ivory towers, dangerous dungeons, and much more.

It’s a gorgeous looking game with a wonderful Wind Waker-esque visual style that blends RPG elements with Minecraft-style world building – Wind Crafter.

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Trove is an excellent action focused voxel-based sandbox massively multiplayer RPG that allows you to explore, fight and build, in a vibrant world that encourages exploration and feeds creativity.

As you travel the huge, ever changing worlds of Trove you’ll build, craft, mine and battle a variety of colourful enemies and bosses. Comparisons will no doubt be made to the mighty Minecraft due to it’s voxel based world and extensive (and impressive) building and crafting options. However, Trove is far more action/combat orientated and features a full RPG-style progression system, with classes (such as Gunslingers, Ninjas & Knights), loot, pets, XP, levelling, tons of customisation options and some very cool mounts (including some adorable little voxel-based ponies!).

There are new character classes released for Trove on a regular basis, usually accompanied by a new biome. It features an impressive sense of community, with almost every piece of gear, dungeon, and lair in the game created by Trove players, and feedback on the Reddit group helping to shape the game. It’s also a very welcoming place, with players happy to assist newbies with any questions.

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