minecraft (the game it was based of)
Please die this instant.
Cubic visuals aren\'t minecraft exclusive, or even invented. Minecraft had a huge success and this visual style has become quite spread and recognized as minecraft\'s., because nothing else with this kind of minimalistic graphics ever really kicked off.
Other than the visuals and building aspects, this doesn\'t have anything to do with minecraft.
Schema explained the choice of visual style and gave a few reasons, notably fractals: you can have a texture on those blocks and no matter how many blocks you put togheter, it looks like a continuous texture is spread across all of the surface. It\'s also a lot simpler to build using this visual style.
I\'m not going to say Starmade doesn\'t look like Minecraft, but I\'m going to claim it\'s definately not based off of it.
Nail me to a cross and brand me fanatic if you will.