I’d read that there was a game called Infiniminer where you would collect perfectly square blocks and use their materials to craft other square blocks and tools.
Minecraft is a clone of that game, and that is the best selling game of all time, selling 63% better than second place, Grand Theft Auto V. A difference of 110,000,000 copies.
So, what other games that were clearly rip-offs of other games, did everything better?
Dunkey made a video once that said the Banjo Kazooie reboot (I think it was called Yooka Laylee) was schooled hard by an indie developer and they spent like 10x less money on it.