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Rank12

Sandbox

Terraria

Two dimensions, five hundred hours, and a boss list that keeps going.

8.7/ 10 editors’ score

About Terraria

Terraria is routinely mistaken for a Minecraft variant and is a substantially different game. Its world is finite and hand-generated in layers, its progression is gated behind bosses rather than exploration, and its combat is a real system with hundreds of weapons that behave differently. Beating a boss changes the world, new ores spawn, new enemies appear, whole biomes shift.

Re-Logic has released several final updates now, each larger than the last, and the 1.4 line left it with well over five hundred items and a hardmode progression that runs far longer than the pre-hardmode game most players remember. It supports eight-player co-op, costs very little, and runs on essentially anything.

Why play it

  • Boss-gated progression means the world visibly changes as you advance.
  • Eight-player co-op with no server hosting required.
  • One of the best value-per-hour propositions on this list.

Categories

Terraria sits in our best sandbox games ranking at position 2.

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