Drawer 04 · review
Luanti
An open-source world of blocks, and a platform for many games built on it: explore, mine, build, survive.
Our score 4/5
Our take
Luanti is a block-building engine that comes with a collection of games rather than one fixed game. Pick one from the in-game content browser, generate a world, and you can explore, dig and build at your own pace, alone or with friends on a home network.
The worlds are huge, the map generators make striking landscapes, and over three thousand open-source mods on ContentDB add anything from new tools to whole new games. Version 5.18.0 came out at the end of October 2026.
Because Luanti is a platform, the first ten minutes are a little more setup than you might expect. After that it is one of the most relaxing things on our shelves.
A first sitting
- Download Luanti from the official site.
- Open the Content tab and install a game; a survival game is a good first pick.
- Create a single-player world in Creative mode first, to learn the controls without pressure.
Where to stop
Open-ended building has no natural end. Give a session one small goal, a house or a bridge, and stop when it is done.
