Portal Knights

Portal Knights certainly takes inspiration from Minecraft, but does enough different to stand on its own. It’s procedurally generated environments and visuals impress the most, which make for a nice laid-back adventure.

Portal Knights deserves credit for attempting to blend two distinct genres and it’s not a total trainwreck; it just does so little to distinguish itself, resulting in an unrewarding title that doesn’t draw you in. While it’s certainly pretty, Portal Knights is otherwise so unremarkable that I can’t recommend it.

Portals Knights manages to capture the best qualities of the building of Minecraft while also maintaining a combat style that can be as difficult as Dark Souls if you're not prepared. Be ready to spend many, many hours in this charming game.