What is Luanti?

Luanti is the new name of an open-source project formerly known as "Minetest." It's not a cloud gaming service or a server in the traditional sense. It's actually a voxel sandbox game engine, a software that provides the foundation for creating and playing games with worlds composed of three-dimensional blocks, similar to "Minecraft".

Benefits of using Luanti

One of the main advantages of Luanti is that it is completely open source and free. There are no costs to download or play. This makes it accessible to anyone who wants to try the block-based gaming genre without investing any money.

So, Luanti isn't just a game, but a platform for creating other games. Its Lua-based API (Application Programming Interface) makes it extremely customizable and easy to modify. There's a large and active community of developers and players who create a huge amount of content (called "games" and "mods") to enrich the experience. You can find thousands of packs, from new game modes to texture packs, all available for free.

As a lightweight game engine, Luanti has very low system requirements compared to many other modern games. This means it can run smoothly even on older or less powerful computers, making the game accessible to a wide range of users.

How many games are there?

With Luanti, you're not limited to a single type of gameplay. Thanks to its "engine" nature, the platform hosts a wide variety of community-created "games." You can choose to play a survival game, a creative world, a puzzle game, and much more. This flexibility allows you to explore different playstyles within the same platform.

Luanti stands out not so much as a game in itself, but as a core infrastructure that allows players to explore and customize a vast universe of community-created content, all in a free and accessible way.