There’s a new record on Steam: The survival hit Terraria achieved a total of one million player reviews. Not only that, but more than 97 percent of the players give it a thumbs up, which is a credit extremely positive
leads. So despite the huge audience success, there are hardly any two opinions about the quality of the title.
Terraria recorded according to the statistics website SteamDB a total of 979,771 positive ratings. Only 21,460 players vote negatively. To be clear, Steam will only allow those players to review a title if they own the game.
Thus, the figures also illustrate the gigantic sales success. But it is already known anyway: developer Re-Logic reported as early as 2020 that Terraria was sold a total of 17.2 million times on the PC alone. On consoles and mobile there are another 17.8 million. Yes, that turns out 35 million copies sold.
Terraria is one of the biggest indie hits
It’s no coincidence that Terraria is breaking the roof on Steam. As our author Sascha Penzhorn noted in the test, the cute survival game with mining and base building has developed into a diamond over the years since its initial release in 2011:
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Finally a masterpiece after 9 years
And you read the keywords: Survival, Crafting, Basenbau. The whole thing in an open world from the side perspective, which shows at every corner how much love the developer has put into it. Anyone who has played Terraria knows what we are talking about.
Nevertheless, the many records represent a remarkable rise. Because such cute pixel games from small developers fly under the radar more often than they become multiple million sellers. But Terraria seems to hit the spot for the taste of many Steam players.
You can watch our test video from 2011 here:
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Is a Terraria 2 coming?
An official successor to the megahit Terraria has not yet been announced. In February, a note from a developer indicated that »Terraria 2 – A New Age
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However, the developer then denied it and said that the future of the brand had not yet been finally clarified. Under certain circumstances, Re-Logic also starts a completely different project, such as an employee opposite PC Gamer expressed. So fans will have to be patient.
