


What we might consider a core “gameplay loop” is added later. Put another way, many of these game launch as a sandbox where the only limit is your imagination, but likewise your only input is your own imagination. I bought an alpha copy of the game back in 2011 and there was no hint of objectives or even progression beyond getting the most durable diamond tools.

I used Minecraft as an example in another comment to illustrate this. No worries I picked up on what you were putting down! To clarify, it’s not that these are rare features, it’s that IMO these games rarely launch with these features if they are seeing a release in some sort of early access model.

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