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10 months agoInfiniminer came before Minecraft and was what directly inspired Minecraft. Off the top of my head UnReal world comes to mind as a survival and sandbox game in that vein and it came out in the 90s. It wasn’t a super popular genre at the time.
Fun fact: The song is a Rod Stewart song written for the movie Patch Adams.