Terraria is an action-adventure sandbox video game developed by Re-Logic. The game was initially released for Microsoft Windowsin May 2011, and has since been released for macOS, Linux and various consoles, handhelds, and mobile devices. Gameplay of Terraria features exploration, crafting, building, and combat with a variety of creatures in a procedurally generated 2D world. Terrariareceived generally positive critical reception upon release, with direct comparisons to Minecraft and praise given to its sandbox elements. By December 2018, the game had sold over 27 million copies across all platforms.   Terraria is a 2D sandbox game with gameplay that revolves around exploration, building, combat, and mining. The game has a 3D sprite tile-based graphical style reminiscent of the 16-bit sprites found on the Super NES.  The game is noted for its classic exploration-adventure style of gameplay, similar to titles such as the Metroid series and Minecraft. The game starts in a procedurally generated world. The player starts out with three basic tools: a pickaxe for digging, a sword for combat, and an axe for woodcutting. Many resources, notably ores, can be found while exploring caves. The player begins with a limited amount of health and mana points, which can both be increased by finding certain items by exploring. Some resources, and most items, may only be found in certain areas of the map, stored in common and rare containers, or dropped by certain enemies. The player uses resources to craft new items and equipment at an appropriate crafting station for that recipe. For example, tables or other items can be crafted at a work bench, bars can be smelted from ore at a furnace, and armor crafted at an anvil. Several advanced items in Terraria require multiple crafting operations where the product of one recipe is used as an ingredient for another. The player can encounter many different enemies in Terraria, such as simple slimes, zombies, skeletons, demon eyes, and various biome-specific enemies. The occurrence of certain enemies depends on several factors including time, location, random events, and player interactions. The player can fight against enemies with swords, bows, guns, magic spells, and summoned attackers. The player may also battle boss monsters during the game with a number of different combat mechanics that can drop rare items and large amounts of in-game currency. All bosses can be summoned by using certain items or randomly when certain criteria are met. Most Bosses can only be summoned at night. Five of the bosses can spawn naturally in certain places and times. The defeat of these bosses is often tied to in-game progression. Defeat of bosses are met with large rewards which equips the player for future gameplay. By completing specific goals (such as defeating a boss or obtaining a gun), players can attract non-player characters (NPCs) to occupy structures or rooms they have built, such as a merchant, nurse, or wizard. Some NPCs can be acquired by finding them throughout the world and will then reside in the player's house. Players may then buy or sell items and certain services from NPCs with coins found in the world. Some NPCs cannot currently be found in the mobile versions and console versions of the game. The game includes a currency system in the form of coins that can be primarily used to complete transactions with NPCs. Coins can be obtained by slaying monsters, finding treasure, and selling items to NPCs. The game recognizes many different biomes and areas, defined by the blocks that exist in the vicinity, each home to a unique set of enemies. Some biomes, such as the Corruption or Crimson biomes, will naturally expand by slowly overtaking and converting blocks in adjacent biomes. If the player journeys to the Underworld biome and summons and defeats a boss there called the Wall of Flesh, the game enters "hardmode", which adds many new and much stronger enemies throughout the world, as well as new NPCs, bosses, ores, and items. The game also features an expert mode difficulty, which can be enabled when creating a world. Expert mode increases the difficulty of the game by doubling the health and attack of monsters and bosses, further increasing the strength of weaker enemies after hardmode, giving bosses new attack patterns, decreasing the effectiveness of life regeneration, more loot, and other tweaks. To deal with the higher attack damages of expert mode the defense statistic is more effective than in normal mode. In addition to the higher difficulty level, expert mode increases the chance for enemies to drop rare items, and adds new items that can only be obtained by defeating the bosses on expert mode. On PC, Playstation 4 and Xbox One, after getting into hardmode and defeating the Lunatic Cultist, four different Celestial Pillars guarded by various monsters will appear in the world. Destroying the pillars will cause the game's final boss called Moon Lord to spawn. Defeating the boss will reward the player with end-game loot. There also is an online multiplayer mode where you can play with friends using the friend options on Steam, Xbox Live and PlayStation Network or with strangers using game servers. In addition to standard gameplay, Terraria has a modding community.

Terraria

Platform
steam

Region
Worldwide