Minetest is a sandbox game with an infinite world and a game engine inspired by InfiniMiner, Minecraft, etc.
In Minetest you have to move around a 3D world consisting of blocks (landscape, objects, mobs, player, etc.), where low-resolution textures are used for texturing. The main task of the player is to survive in this unusual, although not very hostile, world.
The player can come up with a backstory for his game world in Minetest himself, we can say that this is a simulator of the life of a person who has found himself in an unknown world... Finding himself with bare hands in the middle of a huge, virgin-naked world, through which you can simply move and explore it. The game map is almost endless, as you approach the edge, a continuation of the landscape will be automatically created, with saving, and subsequently you can always return to the completed area.
As in real life, in Minetest there is no predetermined meaning, everyone is free to choose their own goal and go to it. The player himself chooses what to do, but one way or another, in order to survive in this world, you must build yourself a shelter, find sources of resources...
By deepening the mine, you can extract minerals (for example, iron), cut down trees and build any structures from this. The set of elements and complete freedom of their placement allow you to create almost any landscape and architecture. You can completely build a new world from scratch! The generated world is also quite interesting. There are many natural caves underground, among which you can find many unexpected and mysterious things (tunnels, halls and other artifacts), and in the deepest caves, lava can even flow.
During the day, the game world looks quite cheerful, bright and safe! But after a while it gets dark... After nightfall, the world plunges into darkness and the player will be in danger! On the surface, in the dungeons, various creatures appear, some of which are aggressive and attack the player, trying to kill him...
After death, the player is reborn, appearing approximately in the middle of the existing game map, everything created is saved.
The network game mode allows many players to gather on one server and build entire megalopolises. Cooperation and mutual assistance are assumed among the players, rather than hostility. Moreover, according to the rules of many servers, it is forbidden to cause any intentional harm to the player and his buildings (violators are simply deleted).
