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The sanbox and survival games before minecraft (lemmings.world)
submitted 1 year ago by WonderingThinker@lemmings.world to c/retrogaming@lemmy.world
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Why were there so few and what were they anyway?

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[โ€“] bagele@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Infiniminer came before Minecraft and was what directly inspired Minecraft. Off the top of my head UnReal world comes to mind as a survival and sandbox game in that vein and it came out in the 90s. It wasn't a super popular genre at the time.

[โ€“] SturgiesYrFase@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

I'm still playing URW. Game is sick! Tough as nails....until you figure out how to cheese it.