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Minecraft (before survival mode was added) was a free game though to be fair

IIRC minecraft was only free for a very short while (a few weeks into development)?

Creative mode, where you have infinite blocks and just build stuff, was free to play online through the Java applet. That was I think until beta came out.

They brought it back last year. It's now at https://classic.minecraft.net/

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