Cube Life: Island Survival 2018 Is Building Up To A Switch Release Later This Year

Considering Minecraft has also stuff like zombies, skeletons, giant spiders and those Endermen things, with a survival mode since the very beginning... It's literally just a straight up Minecraft clone.

I'm down. My kid and I enjoyed it on the Wii U.

At least the water looks realistic and has good graphics.

My kids had fun with it until Minecraft hit Wii U and they switched to play that with friends. It is a challenging game for those that like that genre.

I personally liked it more then Minecraft but neither is my cup of tea and I haven't given the same time to minecraft as I did survival in CubeLife

@SmaggTheSmug
Few corrections to your post: Minecraft has also stuff like zombies, skeletons but Cube Life doesn't. Minecraft doesn't have a giant spider, there is no storyline, there is no Skin editor, no visuals like realistic water, dynamic skies, ragdoll physics... to name few.

If Cube Life is a clone/rippoff so is Minecraft. Why?

Infiniminer is an open source multi-player block-based sandbox building and digging game, in which the player is a miner searching for minerals by carving tunnels through procedurally generated voxel-based maps and building structures".

Infiniminer heavily influenced the style of gameplay, the "blocky" visual style and the block-building fundamentals of Minecraft.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zachtronics#Infiniminer

According to Minecraft author Markus Persson, after he discovered Infiniminer, he "decided it was the game he wanted to do"

@Cypronia
This game seems to share some of the core focus/themes of Minecraft (exploration, challenge, resource gathering, survival) but I didn't see a great deal of variety or combat in it so I'm guessing the extra effort went into the particle effects looking fantastic.

Infiniminer on the other hand, was built around the themes of cooperation, competition, sabotage, and the good old Zachtronics inventiveness. Minecraft has since had these sort of features implemented with different multiplayer modes and many of the mechanical systems, but they are not at the absolute core of the experience. i.e. the idea for the engine and visuals was the same but the purpose of the game is different.

For me personally, it just looks so soulless and that's the main reason it comes of as a Minecraft-clone. The lighting and particle effects also look very off to me, whereas it looks nice in the "Super Duper Graphics Pack" trailer for Minecraft. Again, this is all based on personal preference. Good that apparently a lot of people enjoy it though.

Have this on Wii U. Its actually a really good Minecraft-clone style game. Biggest difference between this and Minecraft? This one is actually a HARD game...it was initially way TOO hard if you asked me. You survive during day...building...gathering food/water (which constantly ticks down)...and bury yourself digging and mining at night. Because when the sun goes down...the island native inhabitants come out to kill you. BIG difference from Minecraft. But a very enjoyable survival game if you like...me, I'll get it!

@abbyhitter Just wait for the Super Duper Graphics Pack!!

Having played the WiiU version, it is just a Minecraft clone. You mine material, you build weapons and other items, and you survive. But as far as Minecraft clones go, its one of the best out there. The only difference is this game doesn't get all the cool themes and mods Minecraft has. But that aside if you like the core Minecraft experience then this game won't let you down.

@Savino " lots of promisses and updates that never came"... What exactly do you mean???

For your information, there were three updates with lots of fixed and new features, you can simply check:

http://www.cypronia.com/games/68-cube-life-wiiu

There is "inspired by" and there is "clone" this looks like the latter.

"I can't believe it's not MINECRAFT!"