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?
Battlefield and Battlebit. Battlebit is what Battlefield 2042 should have been. Not the garbage we got with 2042. All EA/Dice had to do was take BF2 Bad company, BF3, BF4, and the movement mechanics of 2042 and make a modern warfare shooter and they would’ve sold millions of copies. N0o0o0o0 they had to try and reinvent the wheel that nobody asked for.