Terraria (2011)

I've played this game for several years, but it wasn't until this past year that I actually finished it, and I'm more than happy to give it 5 full stars. A procedural 2D side-scrolling sandbox game with awesome weapons, movement items, and bosses.

Now, I want to make it clear that I was NEVER a fighter in this game, I was a builder, but my s/o helped me finally progress in the game and beat it completely (and even get some extremely difficult achievements), and everything was so much fun. The bosses were all extremely creative and overall not the BIGGEST pain in the ass to beat, and they all had rlly good music on top of it. This is just a favorite for me in terms of sandbox games that I'm glad I finally got to experience in full. Extremely worth playing if you like sandbox games, and super cool boss battles. (Just expect to do some grinding if you wanna get some items hehe).

Terraria is a game that, once you've started, you can't let go until the playthrough is finished. It features nice-looking 2D-Graphics, an extreme amount of items, awesome bosses and of course some crazy loot you can get. Wether you love the thrill of intense bossfights, want to blow up your friends using dynamite or just enjoy building large, breathtaking bases, you're probably going to like this game.

Recommended if you like 2D games.

Really fun game, not as similar like Minecraft at all.

if you're tyred of Minecraft and alredy are serching a new hobbie like that, this is your game . Progression is easy if you talk and analice every items like a material with the Guide' guy NPC: swords, armor, pickaxes, shilds, invoccation and more.

Just give them a chance and enjoy.

While playing Terraria again with kiddo, i can't help to think.

Man this game holds up so well, and boy does it inspire modders to create great stuff. From just adding small things to major expansions or overhauls to the game.

Been coming back to this game for years, and probably will come back to it more times. Especially if the modding scene keeps going.

Terraria is one of my favorite games of all times, and definetly my favorite sandbox game. As the one who played it for 500+ hrs, i can say that it can be very addictive. With it's great diversity of items, crafting, locations, enemies and events Terraria will make you bored very rarely. Fighting and building are both really enjoyable. Сute pixel graphics are really enjoyable for an eye, i especially like awesome backgrounds and well animated environment (like foliage swaying on the wind). Musics and sound designs are memorable as well. They convey the mood better then many of triple A projects. Day and town music make you feel really comfy and peaceful, while crimson and boss music can be really scary and anxious.

Also this game has an awesome community which made me love this game even more. It makes many good arts, building screenshots, cool maps and mods. Also Terraria players helped me much when i was struggling to get into it.

The most surprising for me is that devs made this game even better with The Last Journey update. It added new difficulty with new rewards for most hardcore players, enemies, items, decorations and much more. I will always prefer Terraria over Minecraft, because it's not just building and it doesn't require any mods to be fun for most of people. Also 2d pixels are much prettier for me.

The only bad thing that comes to my mind about this game is:

1. It can be hard to start for new players, who never played this genre. Tutorial could be better than just talking with NPC
2. You usually have to play with open wiki, cause it's really hard to remember even half of crafting recipes in this game
3. At Hard and higher difficulties it can get a bit boring to build special arenas for every boss.
4. I wish that NPC would be more comfortable to customize, not that they would go into your room and take it for themselves. For example, if you want to play a Summoner and you have got weapon in your inventory, armsdealer will spawn in your house, when you made it for Nurse. Would be much better if you had a menu where you can add or delete NPC if you have met their conditions.
5. Also my personal dislike is that you cant fight Queen Bee on surface anymore. She gets enraged and kills you pretty fast. In journey's end you have to dig arena under surface, if you aren't complete tryhard of course :(

Anyway, i recommend this game to every gaming enthusiast, it cost almost nothing, but allowed for a huge number of hours of fun. They didn't sell more than 14 millions copies for nothing!

liked: the different builds were interesting and i liked the progression of armor throughout the game. the bosses were very cool and digging was a very satisfying. there are mods that deal with quality-of-life stuff like better storage/chests. i like games with fishing in it.

disliked: i'm honestly not rly into the building in this game ahah oops

bottom line: yeah play it it's fun also the music is stuck in my head

First time actually playing Terraria singleplayer and realizing how much of a wiki game this is, more than Minecraft is at this point. The achievements push some kind of progression but good luck figuring out the rest, pal!

There was one song that I heard as I started mining underground and it was awful but it eventually went right back to the main theme so I guess it's fine.

Intro

Terraria is a 2D game in which you gather resources, build houses, craft items and fight monsters. You start out above ground and mine your way down.

The Good

I really wanted to like this game, i even played it for nearly 9 hours. It has a ton of items, a nice variety in enemies and an excellent cheat menu that helps reduce grinding. There's a ton of smaller elements that are all quite nice. For instance, i didn't expect there to be minecart rides and they are nice and quick.

The Bad

The game has a number of problems however. The two main ones are mining and building.

Mining is just too clunky. Your character is 3 'blocks' high and 2 blocks wide. This means you have to mine 3 blocks to move 1 block in distance. This would be okay if you automatically mined everything in your path, but you don't. You have to hover the mouse over a block, hold the button for a second or three then move to the next block. You often get stuck because nearly-destroyed blocks (that are much smaller) are in the way. Or you just can't see where to mine because it's too dark. Keep in mind that most of the game is spent digging around, so this is really bad.

Building is another major flaw. The "walls" are actually wallpaper. The real walls (that keep stuff out) are blocks stacked on top of each other. The game doesn't explain this in any way. Nor does it explain that a door need a block at the bottom, which is really counter-intuitive. Making stairs requires you to place platforms one by one, diagonally, then hitting each one only once with a hammer. The wallpaper-walls and brick-walls also have to be placed one at a time. It's incredibly tedious and you constantly make mistakes. I even had to reduce my mouse speed to be able to build.

Conclusion

Two of the three main mechanics are poorly implemented (combat is fine). Much as i admire this game i just can't enjoy playing it.

I can't think of many games I've had as many late nights with friends as Terraria. Since March 2013, this game has been with me throughout vastly different periods of my life, and with the 1.4 Journey's End update, that adventure finally comes to a close. While it's sad to see the book closed on Terraria, the final state of the game is a masterful entry to the crafting/exploration genre with an absolutely insane amount of content.

Early into Terraria, it is easy to draw comparisons to Minecraft; the game begins with the players chopping trees, mining iron and fighting zombies at night. However, as the game progresses, it quickly unfolds into a unique experience all its own. Throughout a whole run of Terreria, the game continuously surprises with new ways to interact with the world, or by turning previously established parts of the world into something new. Terraria as a world is not comfortable with settling into a fixed condition; instead evolving and changing, frequently reminding the player that the world isn't theirs to control, but is a living being separate to the player.

More than any other crafting/exploration game, Terraria really nails the exploration aspect. There is so much to see and experience in this game; so many areas to visit, items to try and creatures to meet. While the sheer amount of content in the game is staggering, it does have a bit of trouble explaining itself. The game tries to give you resources to find your own way, resources in The Guide - an NPC who explains crafting recipes and gives basic advice, as well as The Bestiary as of the most recent update. Some other NPCs will also deliver cryptic words of wisdom on how to progress. While it is possible for a new player with enough curiosity to make it through the game's progression on their own (and I encourage and new players to go in blind, at least for a while!) it is far more manageable to open up the Terraria Wiki on a smart phone or Steam overlay, and allow it to guide progress. It's not the most elegant design, but is pretty much par for the course in this genre.

While the exploration aspect of the game is impeccable, if a little flawed, the combat is also fantastic. Throughout the progression of Terraria, a player is presented with an absolutely wild array of combat options and playstyles and, especially by late game, the player is given a wild number of movement options to take into combat. It's a good thing too, as Terraria contains enormous boss fights that require serious firepower to take down. At it's best, the game feels like a high energy platformer, combined with a tight bullet-hell, with boss fights representing a close intersection between preparation and skill. That said, especially on Expert of Master mode, the boss fights can get so difficult as to require spending lots of time to build arenas, prepare potions and equipment and research boss tactics, that the fight itself almost feels secondary. In this sense, at times Terraria can almost feel like an MMO more than anything, which could be a good or bad things depending on your perspective.

Overall, this decade's old game is an absolutely legendary entry into the genre. With the game in its final state, my partner and I took a week to fully complete the game, from start to finish on Expert mode. It was an incredible experience to finally see the game to the end (which I've never done before!) and to give the game the honorable send-off it deserved. If, at this point, you still haven't played Terraria, I encourage you to find one or two friends (who preferable also haven't played it!) and give it a shot! If you like boss fights, crafting and exploration, and you don't mind researching convoluted recipes, this game is for you!

Also, it's like, three dollars on sale, what are you doing??

Finally, it is done! My partner and I defeated The Moon Lord on an Expert World from scratch (and again on Master with the same characters), forged the Zenith (twice), constructed the Drill Containment Unit (twice!), built villages and weathered invasions

But one insurmountable challenge remained, until today! We've defeated the real final boss of Terraria, The Angler! With the Supreme Helper Minion achievement finished, we've 100% completed Terraria! It's been a long journey, but it has now come to a close

Played during free trial of xbox game pass. I was only going to play it once so decided on the maximum size map. I built my base like a NES Mario fort of simple stone; the ceilings were only high enough for me to fit in and the outside was staggered so I could jump over it either way. I am not big on building things so it was only the bare minimum needed. I played long enough to get to some of the harder areas and a full set of silver gear. I liked the magic staff the most, followed by a snowball cannon. I tried to play it more like a shooter and that would have went much better with the PC version.

I died quite a few times by drowning in the dark until I found a helmet with a light. Mostly I died to enemies and their damn contact damage. Did not help that they keep respawning. After a couple of days playing I got sick of having to run all the way to my death spot and stopped playing.

It is certainly an interesting game but I am not inclined to buy it. The game would be better for me if the enemies did not constantly respawn, and there were actual engineering principles involved in building things (like load bearing supports, material tensile strength and material degradation).

1.0: Wow, a 2D sandbox game!

1.1: Holy, now there's a hard-mode and tons of new content!

1.2: Expanded Hard-Mode and even more content, bosses and items!? Hell yeah!

1.3: Oh... my... god...

1.4: Similar update to 1.2, lots of QOL changes and sprite updates, 2 new bosses.

Long story short just get this game and play it, PLAY IT UNTIL YOU'RE THE ACTUAL LORD OF THE MOON.

I have 189 hours on my main account and I'm still continuing to play this awesome game on this account.

P.S. Don't try to solo Expert Mode. It's kinda impossible without a friend.

P.P.S. Don't try to solo Master Mode. It's kinda impossible without a few friends.