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?
The original Warcraft game was made based on the Warhammer franchise and used all the WH races, characters and factions. The deal fell through between Blizzard and Gamesworkshop for various reasons and they simply changed the names. The rest is history.