Creativerse is an open world sandbox game.
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Playful takes on Minecraft with open-world sandbox game Creativerse

Playful is launching its open-world sandbox game Creativerse on May 8 in a move that will bring it into market that Minecraft dominates.

The McKinney, Texas-based Playful already has 2.6 million players from the Steam Early Access phase of the building and adventure title. The final version launches Thursday on the Windows PC and Mac. Minecraft, its competitor, has sold 122 million copies and has 55 million monthly active players.

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Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.