Ever played Minecraft? If not, I really really really do recommend checking that out. But anyway, imagine Minecraft, an epic tale of constructing an invincible fortress against the hordes of zombies, skeletons, and those damn exploder things, and putting it into 2D. Yes, this includes mining… digging an obnoxiously deep hole, before harvesting gold, iron, and diamonds. Now, I want you to imagine Worms, the classic game of using weapons of mass destruction to brutally annihilate other worms, but instead, it moves in real-time, so a bit more like Liero. Lets say that these games were magically fused together. On top of this, add Multiplayer, a deep RPG system, and of course, NPCs that try to sell you obnoxiously overpriced items, while buying your items at obnoxiously low prices, and the game constantly evolves due to frequent updates.
Independent game studio ‘Re-Logic’ has made this awesome sounding daydream a reality with Terraria, an action packed struggle against the evil that plagues your land. Well, sort of. It’s more of a quest to build the biggest castle, and the greatest dictatorship that the world has ever seen, so powerful, that even the monsters that once walked the surface shiver and creep away from your mere presence. Afterwards, throw dynamite, and use star cannons to cleave rival dictators that intrude upon your kingdom. Terraria supports more than eight dictators in a single stretch of land, battling it out to claim that map as their own. Gone is the camaraderie of Minecraft, where users helped each other to make exquisite creations, in the world of Terraria, there is only war.
Currently, Terraria is on Steam, where you can purchase it for around $9.99 for the full game. Unfortunately, due to Terraria being coded in XNA, it is extremely unlikely that it’ll be on Apple computers any time soon. Supposedly, Crossover doesn’t work for the Mac, and more libraries are needed before it’ll even run. Being coded in XNA could possibly result in Terraria appearing on the Xbox Live Marketplace though…