Minecraft offers several game modes, each with its unique features:

Survival Mode: Players gather resources, craft items, and fend off mobs while maintaining health and hunger.

Creative Mode: Unlimited resources are available for building, and players have the ability to fly, making it more about creation than survival.

Adventure Mode: Designed for custom maps and adventures created by other players, where gameplay can be more controlled by map creators, limiting what players can do play Minecraft for free

Spectator Mode: Players can fly through blocks, observe gameplay without interacting, and view the world from other players' perspectives.

Hardcore Mode: A more challenging version of Survival Mode where the difficulty is set to the maximum, and the game mode becomes locked in the hardest setting. Additionally, if a player dies, the world becomes unplayable, and the player has to delete the world or be locked into spectator mode.

These modes offer diverse experiences, catering to various playstyles and preferences.

It turns out that now I understand why there are so many ways to call Minecraft by so many names.