I bought this game having seen trailers depicting lots of action, fighting, etc. So upon installing and booting up the first time I was dismayed to find I had bought a 2D Minecraft. I didn't want to mine, craft, or build anything. But I decided to stick with it, cause the trailer looked so rad ...

... Then I was hooked.

This game has absorbed many many many hours of my life, most of which were stolen from late nights and wee-morning hours. My ability to dig, explore, fight, and even move grew exponentially as time went on. Enemies grew more varied along with my equipment, and soon I was flying, running, falling, shooting Wyverns, and blasting the he|| out of Wall's of Fleshes and Mecha-Skeletrons, and exploring the far reaches of the world, from under the sea, to floating islands in the sky.

Terraria changed my perception of what a video game can be. What it can give (in terms of experience), and what it can take (time, energy, fore-thought and planning). Terraria became an obsession, so I no longer play it. Oh, it's still installed. The developers have been updating, adding to, fixing, patching, and improving the game for years FOR FREE. So I boot it up and start from scratch for a an hour or two, once every couple of months, to see how darn beautiful it is and try to find something new here and there. And maybe some day I'll go for the long-haul again, and make myself a new home on a new world and advance to the latest stages of the game.

But until then Terraria will remain in my heart as one of the video games that changed my preconceptions about games, and will always be among one of my favorites, as I consider it one of the best video games made.

It's worth far more than the price tag, whatever that is now-a-days, so give it a shot. It's difficult not to find pleasure in Terraria. Happy gaming!