What is it?
MiniWorld is a cozy life game in the spirit of Animal Crossing. Build your village on a tiny Earth 100 km around, then walk, gather and decorate among animals and neighbours.
There is no win or lose — play at your own pace and drop in on other players’ villages on the same globe.
In MiniWorld, a village's hour follows its longitude and seasons flip south of the equator. Fish and bugs obey both: eels bite at night and the coelacanth only in rain, which makes it a bug catching game of timing. Among cozy games online free to play, it also offers Othello, chess and air hockey in your yard.
MiniWorld is a life sim on a scaled-down copy of the real Earth. The planet is 100 km around, 1/400 of the real size, with real continents and coastlines, cut into 317,400 square cells about 195 m across. Each cell is one village site, and each account can claim one. Slopes are folded into 10 m terraces, so houses and benches stand level.
Time and weather are formulas, not a clock kept per village. A village's hour follows its longitude, seasons are reversed south of the equator, and everyone in the same place sees the same shower and the same rainbow. Fish and bugs follow those rules — eels bite at night, the coelacanth only in the rain — and the server checks each catch with the same functions the screen uses.
Features open over four life stages. After that, three daily chores, a streak bonus and a weekly goal shared by all players give each visit something to finish.
Gameplay video and screens
How to play
- Log in with your GameNow account (or pick 'Look around without signing in' to visit a neighbour's village first). On your first visit, drag the globe, scroll closer, click empty green land and press 'Build my village here'.
- You fly down to your village. Press Space or E to land right away.
- Walk with W/A/S/D or click the ground where you want to go. Drag to look around; scroll to zoom all the way out to orbit.
- Stand at a fruit tree and press E to shake it and pick up fruit. The 'E …' prompt in the middle of the screen shows what you can do right now.
- Open your bag with Tab and the shop with B. Shake trees 3 times and sell once to finish the First Day goals; that unlocks M (Map), J (Pedia), X (photo) and O (Album). H shows the full list of controls.
Modes
- Look around without signing in
- No account needed. You land in a neighbouring village and can walk, shake fruit, pick flowers, catch bugs, fish with a lent rod and sell; it all goes into a trial bag that vanishes when you close the tab. Buying, decorating, photos and racing stay locked.
- Sign in with GameNow
- Spin the globe, pick empty green land and build your village: one per account, one owner per cell. Money (Ⱥ), items, stages and friendships are saved on the server.
- Racing Circuits
- Opens after the last stage, Going Further. Ten kart circuits each hold a daily race at their own UTC hour: three laps, Ⱥ2,000 entry, eight seats plus two reserves, Ⱥ12,000 for first. Solo runs cost Ⱥ300 and keep your best lap.
- Five in a row, Othello, Chess, Air hockey
- Place a board or table in your yard and sit with E. If no player joins within 10–30 seconds, a villager walks over to play, and which villager comes sets the strength. Air hockey ends at seven goals or three minutes.
Good to know
- Esc closes every open window. To leave, use the Exit game button on the right (Shift+Esc).
- The buttons at the bottom and the prompts in the middle work like pressing that key.
- Press Enter to talk — only people nearby can hear you.
- After connecting a gamepad, press any button once so the browser detects it.
At a glance
- Genre
- Explore & simulate
- Players
- 1+
- Price
- Free
- Available languages
- Korean · English · Japanese · Chinese · Spanish
- Platform
- Web browser (no install)
Further reading
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