Well, if you wanna get technical, it's not really space Minecraft. It's more of a sci-fi sandbox RPG thing. But it's pretty darn close.
Apart from phr00t's Space Minecraft 3089 there's a whole bunch of other quirky and interesting titles in Steam's latest batch of nearly one hundred community-approved Greenlight games. There's a shoot-em-up starring cats mining for milk under the ocean. A retro game which explores what happens to game characters slated for deletion. A ridiculously-named soccer game where the teams bomb each others' brains out. There's even an archery game that is very much reminiscent of the ever-frustrating QWOP. Quite the haul! But before we dive in:
Note: Being Greenlit means that a game has been approved for distribution on Steam by the community. It doesn't guarantee a release—projects may be abandoned, crowdfunding campaigns may fail, developers may disappear. Greenlit games are merely guaranteed a spot on the Steam store, provided they manage to reach a playable state.
So let's take a look, shall we?
- 3089 - Basically Space Minecraft
- 99 Levels To Hell - Fantasy Roguelike Platformer/Shooter
- Abducted - Alien Abduction-Themed Adventure/RPG
- Alpha Kimori - Episodic Anime-style JRPG
- Aqua Kitty: Milk Mine Defender - Retro-style SHMUP
- Arcane Worlds - Magic Carpet-inspired Sandbox Game
- Armed! - Sci-fi Turn-based Multiplayer Strategy
- Avan Story - Anime-style Adventure Game
- Bardbarian - Tower Defense/RPG/RTS Hybrid
- Beware Planet Earth! - Sci-fi Tower Defense
- BlackSoul - Third-person Survival Horror
- Bloom: Memories - Fantasy Action RPG / Adventure
- Captain Morgane and the Golden Turtle - Point-and-click Adventure
- CDF Ghostship - Sci-fi Survival Horror
- Coma: Mortuary - Horror/Adventure
- Company of Heroes: Eastern Front - Fan-made Expansion for CoH
- Consortium - Sci-fi First-person RPG
- continue?9876543210 - Retro-style Action Game about Dead Game Characters
- Conversion - Fan-made Midquel to Portal and Portal 2
- Critical Point: Incursion - Contemporary Arcade FPS
- Deathfire: Ruins of Nethermore - Turn-based Retro-style Fantasy RPG
- Dex - Sci-fi Sidescrolling Action RPG
- Dragons and Titans - Free Fantasy MOBA
- Dragons' Odyssey - Retro-style JRPG
- DRAKERZ: Confrontation - Online Card Game with AR Elements
- Driftmoon - Fantasy Adventure/RPG
- EF-12 - 3D Fighting Game Creator
- Enola - Horror/Adventure
- EvilQuest - Fantasy Action RPG with a Villain Protagonist
- Final Rush - Co-op Robot Shooter
- FootLOL: Epic Fail League - Soccer Game with Weapons
- Frogatto & Friends - Retro-style Platformer
- Full Bore - Exploration-focused Open-world Puzzler
- Geekbench 3 - Benchmarking Tool
- Girls Like Robots - Hand-drawn Puzzler
- Global Outbreak - Squad-based Top-down Shooter
- Go! Go! Nippon! - Tourism-themed Dating Sim
- Grapple - Contemporary 3D Puzzle Platformer
- Gridiron Solitaire - Football-themed Card Game
- Guerrilla Bob - Contemporary Top-down Shooter
- Guns N Zombies - Top-down Zombie Shooter
- Guts! - Roguelike Tactical RPG
- High Strangeness - Retro-style RPG, Blends 8-bit and 16-bit
- Ichi - One-button Puzzler
- Imagia - Photo Editor
- Imagine Nations - Sandbox Game
- Interference - Stealth Puzzle-Platformer
- International Racing Squirrels - Race Management Sim
- Kingz Online - Fantasy MMORTS
- Krautscape - Multiplayer Racing Game
- La Tale - Free-to-play Fantasy MMORPG
- Light - Minimalist Stealth Game
- Major Mayhem - Retro-style Side-scrolling Shooter
- Malevolence: The Sword of Ahkranox - Roguelike First-person RPG
- Mansion Lord - Murder Mystery RPG/Management Sim
- Masters of the World 3 - Geopolitics Simulator
- Masterspace - Sci-fi Building/Exploration Sandbox
- Mitsurugi Kamui Hikae - Anime-style Third-person Beat 'em up
- Mobiloid - Robot-building Puzzler
- Modulate - Sci-fi First-person Puzzler
- Monster Shooter - 2D Sci-fi Top-down Shooter
- Mr. Bree+ - Side-scrolling Adventure-Platformer
- Muffin Knight - Fantasy Side-scrolling Brawler/RPG
- Narcissu 1st & 2nd - Contemporary Visual Novel
- Of Light & Shadow - Fantasy Puzzle-Platformer
- One Finger Death Punch - Cinema style Kung-fu-themed Brawler
- Organic Panic - Food-themed Side-scrolling Shooter
- Out of the Park Baseball 14 - Baseball Management Sim
- Out There Somewhere - Retro-style Sci-fi Puzzle Platformer
- Panzer Corps Wehrmacht - WWII-themed Turn-based Strategy
- Paper Sorcerer - Fantasy Turn-based RPG
- Pitiri 1977 - 70s Sci-fi-themed Retro-style Platformer
- Pixel Piracy - Open-ended Pirate RPG
- Potatoman Seeks the Troof - Potato-themed Retro-style Platformer
- Probably Archery - QWOP-esque Archery Game
- Red Baron - WWI-themed Flight Sim
- Residue - Contemporary Adventure-Platformer
- Rooks Keep - Fantasy Deathmatch Arena Game
- Saturday Morning RPG - Contemporary Retro-style Episodic RPG
- Scraps - Vehicle Combat Game with Custom-built Cars
- Skyjacker - Free-roaming Space Sim
- Spacecom - Minimalist Sci-fi Multiplayer Strategy
- Spellirium - Puzzler/Point-and-click Adventure
- Sprite Lamp - 2D Art Tool
- Stasis - Isometric Sci-fi Horror/Adventure
- Super Code Webpage Developer - Entry-level Web Page Designer Software
- The DyVox Sandbox - Building Sandbox Game
- The Girl and the Robot - Third-person Fantasy Action-Adventure
- The Last Door - Horror/Point-and-click Adventure
- The Stomping Land - Multiplayer Dinosaur Survival Sim
- Tower of the Gorillion - Game Boy-style Co-op Platformer
- Turbo Dismount - Physics-based Score Attack Game
- Unearthed: Trail of Ibn Battuta - Contemporary Third-person Adventure
- Victory: The Age of Racing - Racer with RPG Elements
- Villagers and Heroes - Free-to-play Online RPG
- War of the Human Tanks - Anime-style Contemporary Strategy Game
- Wayward - Wilderness Survival Roguelike
- WazHack - Side-scrolling Turn-based Roguelike
- Wyv and Keep - Fantasy Side-scrolling Puzzle-Platformer
- Zombie Grinder - Retro-style Co-op Zombie Shooter
Not bad, not bad. Up top is a player-made tank from vehicular combat game Scraps, my personal favorite. Which one's yours?
100 Titles Greenlit Today [Steam]
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