Terraria
Terraria is a creative fantasy adventure game where you can build, fight and form the world in almost any way you want. Although it looks like a 2D, lesser version of Minecraft, it's just as flexible and offers more progression, weapons and dungeon boss battles. It stands out for the sheer scope and scale of what is possible - hundreds of items to collect, characters to meet and bosses to defeat.
CONTENT RATING
Violence
PLATFORMS
POSITIVE GAMEPLAY
PLAY STYLE
While keeping the aesthetics retro, the game is a complex action-adventure sandbox with a focus on exploration, crafting, building, and combat. You start with just 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 which are then used to craft new items and equipment.
As you progress you dig down into the world, build a home and trade with visiting villagers. This enables you to build up a war chest of impressive weapons and tools while also collecting the resources you need to develop. Triggering (and hopefully beating) the different enemies and bosses takes a huge amount of effort. Beating them when they appear takes perseverance and planning.
Like Minecraft, Terraria is a game that has developed and improved over the years as its developers have released updates. A new Terraria Journey's End version of the game offers new items, foes, creatures and even a little Golf mini-game. It also adds new difficulty modes and enhanced weather effects.
The result is a game that has a huge community of players, deep systems of lore and huge hierarchies of weapons, characters and enemies. It may look simple, but the experience is anything but.
GAMEPLAY TRAILER
Good to know
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Improve learning
Creative games can be very educational. They can help kids solve problems, think creatively and use critical thinking while sparking imagination, which are skills that can support learning in other areas.
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Manage in-game purchase
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Skill level
Suggested by Family Gaming Database
You need to be able to persevere and have the imagination that inspires you to take on big challenges. There's some detailed control of the characters and the building of structures. You can play the game in Journey (creative) mode for younger players. It also lets you progress at your own pace. Older, more skilful, players will focus more on progression.
Content rating
Rated PEGI 12 for Violence. Gameplay is based around collecting materials - cutting down trees and mining to build houses to protect you from hordes of zombies at night. During the day you can also be attacked by small green blobs. All violence in the game is non-realistic although there are some blood effects and characters break up when killed. Also, the characters are borderline non-detailed. There are online interactions with other players.
Accessibility
There are 24 accessibility features for
Terraria
Data by Family Gaming Database
Game details
Platforms
Nintendo Switch, Nintendo Wii U, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PlayStation Vita, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Nintendo 2DS|3DS, PC, Mac, iOS, Android, Stadia, Amazon Fire
Release date
May 16, 2011, updated in 2019
No. of players
You can play with 1 to 8 players in the same room or as a 8-player online game.
Genre
Adventure | Collecting | Creative | Fighting
In-game purchases
No
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