It’s time to dust off Terraria and go on a nice run again.
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darthelmet@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It’s crazy how successful they’ve been off just making and selling a good indie game. They’re still doing free updates AND they can afford a $200k donation?
chic_luke@lemmy.world 1 year ago
PM_ME_FEET_PICS@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
They came out around peak indie craze, 14 or so years ago. I believe they were just behind Minecraft in terms of success. Total lifetime sales for their game have it outselling Skyrim.
stephenc@lemmy.world 1 year ago
One of the, if not the best games in the last 15+ years.
I’m not exaggerating. At all. I am not a fan of a vast majority of “popular” modern games and think gaming has been on the decline since the mid-90s. Terraria is the one shining, beautiful, wonderful spot in a massive pile of garbage “AAA” and “modern indie” titles that just gets gameplay right, with no gimmicks, no BS, no story, nothing but gameplay.
It’s one of my favorite games of all time. So all this makes me very happy.
cjsolx@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Out of curiosity can you define “no boring intrusive story”? Because personally I’m big on storylines, so if they nail that part then that takes the game to a whole other level
wahming@monyet.cc 1 year ago
Yeah, no story period. Which is good for some people, not so much for others
Hadriscus@lemm.ee 1 year ago
I tried playing Terraria but gave up after an hour or so, precisely because I expected at least some kind of story and there wasn’t. It was also very awkward to control with a mouse and keyboard, I think it’s really supposed to be played with a controller. I might try it again now that I’ve got one, and less expectations
scv@discuss.online 1 year ago
In some games storyline matters, in others… not so much. Games with a storyline trend to be less replayable in my experience. One exception I can think of is This War of Mine, that game is really depressing.
Skrinkus@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
You know they’re legit when my nephew just built a PC and is excited to finally play terraria.
funnystuff97@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Terraria is like the anti-modern game. They absolutely refuse to evilly monetize their game at all. The playerbase is almost on their knees, begging them to move on from Terraria and make something else (not because Terraria is bad, but they’ve been at it for over a decade!) and they continue to churn out updates. The fanbase voted for a set of features to appear in Terraria 2, which they then turned around and scrapped, and added it as an update to Terraria. And all their updates are always free. And can’t forget about their amazing mod support.
And redigit is just, like, the man.
adamantris@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
dont worry, im sure update 1.4.5 will be the final final final final final final final update, and then they will move in.
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Terraria update 2.0 expected release date 1E128 years
darthelmet@lemmy.world 1 year ago
They’ll stop updating the game whenever the Attack on Titan anime actually ends.
peachfaced@lemmy.world 1 year ago
*whenever One Piece is found
spriteblood@kbin.social 1 year ago
Also their game is literally $10 USD on Steam, compared to all the $70 ones that have been coming out lately.
laylawashere44@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year ago
Tbf it takes a significantly smaller team to develop a 2d platforming game like terraria. The overhead for art and design is mush simpler too than something like a Cyberpunk 2077
scv@discuss.online 1 year ago
Also Terraria is a lot of fun and more replayable than most $70 games.
TheMadnessKing@lemdro.id 1 year ago
I don’t game at all, but I now feel like buying the game just to show my support to these awesome devs.
Shush@reddthat.com 1 year ago
Same. I do game, just games like Terraria aren’t my taste, but I’ll still buy the game on my accounts to show my support to them.