Terraria

2011 · 2D

90Recommended

79OpenCritic

83Metacritic

96Steam 30d

97All time

In the 2D sandbox Terraria you dig, build and fight, and the game sets you no goals. Build a house, meet the right conditions, and a merchant or a nurse moves in. A special item summons a boss. And the game itself has been declared finished more than once.

Andrew Spinks started work on it in January 2011. In May Terraria came out on Steam ahead of schedule, because a beta from a closed playtest had leaked. In February 2012 Spinks announced there would be no more content updates. Work resumed in 2013.

Update 1.4, Journey's End, arrived on May 16, 2020, the game's birthday, and Re-Logic called it the last one. Then came 1.4.4 in 2022 and 1.4.5 in January 2026.

You can play alone or with friends. At launch critics faulted the PC version for having no tutorial, though they praised the gameplay and the exploration. In 2022 Terraria became the first Steam game with over a million reviews and an Overwhelmingly Positive rating. Players leave 97% positive out of 1,249,641 reviews, critics give it 83 on Metacritic. By our Recommended Score it is #148 of 4,736 games.

Liked it? Try Starbound, another 2D sandbox, this time with travel between planets, and Core Keeper, where up to eight players dig through an underground world seen from above.

PlatformsPC PS4 Xbox Series PS5 Xbox One Switch