Terraria Marks 15 Years and 70 Million Players With a Promise to Continue Updates Beyond 1.4.6 and Crossplay Patch

Terraria developer Re-Logic has confirmed that updates volition proceed "beyond" the 1.4.6 update and the upcoming crossplay patch, and volition stock "other plans and ideas [...] erstwhile the clip is right."

Addressing fans connected its 15th day successful an update connected Steam, the workplace reflected connected the staggering milestone of 70 cardinal sales, 39.6 cardinal of which were sold connected PC, 10.7 cardinal connected console, and 19.7 cardinal connected mobile. Unsurprisingly, this has led to an mean regular subordinate number of astir fractional a cardinal players, and a highest of 1.4 million.

As portion of the celebrations, Terraria is getting a 15th day collector's variation — what, exactly, it includes remains a enigma — and Terraria Design Works, a publication that takes a retrospective look astatine the beingness of Terraria, developed successful collaboration with Lost successful Cult.

"From the hardcore players with thousands of hours to those conscionable discovering our 'metroidvania successful a sandbox' today... from the builders to the speedrunners... from those that we interact with regularly successful our assemblage to those that conscionable bask the crippled successful silence... from those that are regular Terraria enjoyers to those that similar to shingle things up with each sorts of mods connected tModloader... each and each 1 of you are precious to us," developer Re-Logic said.

"We anticipation that our crippled has brought you immoderate joyousness implicit the years. Terraria is simply a unsocial acquisition 1 that we similar to deliberation that we person shaped unneurotic alongside the fans into the awesomeness that it is today. This is arsenic overmuch your travel arsenic it is ours!"

Terraria has announced its "final" update a fig of times, truthful galore successful information that it's go thing of a moving gag wrong the community. 1.4.5 was erstwhile thought of arsenic being the last update, but past came confirmation of 1.4.6, and present we cognize adjacent much updates are planned for that.

"They conscionable can't fto the crippled end, and I'm grateful for that," joked 1 fan. "There's ever much amusive worldly they tin adhd to this game." Another wrote: "Best $2.50 I ever spent was connected Terraria erstwhile Steam income inactive had heavy discounts, I person hundreds of hours connected it arsenic good arsenic galore fond memories playing it with loved ones. Congrats to them."

Terraria 1.4.5 — dubbed the Bigger and Boulder Update — yet dropped successful January, welcoming successful thousands of caller and returning players alike. Up until the caller update, Terraria averaged astir 20-30,000 players astatine immoderate 1 time, with the occasional spike successful involvement erstwhile caller contented dropped implicit the years. 1.4.5, however, prompted 1 of the biggest spikes successful implicit a decade, hitting a merchandise time highest of astir 165,000 players connected Valve's platform.

IGN reviewed Terraria 15 years agone (!), erstwhile it was released mode backmost successful 2011. Even then, though, we thought it was amazing, scoring it 9/10 and writing: "Though connected the aboveground it looks similar conscionable different 'me too' indie crippled seeking to thrust the coattails of Minecraft's success, Terraria expands connected the acquainted sandbox gameplay with a greater accent connected combat and escapade that proves precise satisfying. That's uncommon indeed."

Vikki Blake is simply a newsman for IGN, arsenic good arsenic a critic, columnist, and advisor with 15+ years acquisition moving with immoderate of the world's biggest gaming sites and publications. She's besides a Guardian, Spartan, Silent Hillian, Legend, and perpetually High Chaos. Find her astatine BlueSky.