Terraria launch a huge success

Yesterday we mentioned the launch of a little-known game called Terraria . It appeared on Steam with no marketing campaign, and no real build up beyond a link on Twitter from Minecraft creator notch . Right now, it's the sixth most played game on Steam, ahead of Portal 2 and Team Fortress 2, and is the second best selling game on Steam, lingering just behind The Witcher 2.

So what is Terraria? The words "two-dimensional Minecraft" go a long way to summing it up. The fully destructible, randomly generated worlds can be mined for materials that can be crafted into tools. The big differences between Terraria and Minecraft, beyond the missing dimension, is the madness of the gear that you can craft. From laser weapons to magical swords and grappling hooks, there are dozens of items to construct.

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Part of the UK team, Tom was with PC Gamer at the very beginning of the website's launch—first as a news writer, and then as online editor until his departure in 2020. His specialties are strategy games, action RPGs, hack ‘n slash games, digital card games… basically anything that he can fit on a hard drive. His final boss form is Deckard Cain.