These content updates have vastly increased the number of items in the game while at the same time overhauling sprites adding new biomes, enemies, and bosses and making a ton of quality of life changes. The fourth and (supposedly) final content update, Journey's End, is scheduled to ship out in 2020. What's the driving force behind Terraria's success? It's the same thing that drives my love for the game: not only is Terraria a lot of fun to play, but throughout the past eight years, Spinks and his team at Re-Logic have been periodically delivering massive content updates for the game. If you look at the game's store page on Steam, it has nearly 300,000 user reviews that have been 'overwhelmingly positive,' which is no small feat.

Though it got its start on PC, Terraria is now available on every modern platform, and back in May, Re-Logic (the company Spinks founded in 2011 to develop and publish the game) announced that Terraria had sold more than 27 million copies. Combine that exposure with its $10 price tag (along with the fact that TotalBiscuit and Jesse Cox returned to the game at various points afterward), and Terraria had all the makings of a successful indie game.įast forward to 2019 and I'm guessing that there are still days where Terraria creator Andrew Spinks thinks he's living a dream. I think Terraria received its first big hit of exposure when YouTubers TotalBiscuit and Jesse Cox recorded a long series of videos that documented a co-op playthrough of the game.

Play terraria free