Genre: Fantasy / Humour / Horror / Adventure / Indie
Gameplay style: Exploration / Random Gen / Crafting / 2D / Platforming / Sandbox / Exploration
Platform: PC
Episode Type: Longplay / First Look / Blind Play
Terraria is an open-ended action-adventure sandbox 2D game with gameplay revolved around exploration, building, and action. The game has a 2D sprite tile-based graphical style reminiscent of the 16-bit sprites found on the SNES. The game is noted for its classic exploration-adventure style of gameplay, similar to titles such as Metroid and Minecraft.
The game starts in a procedurally generated world and the player is given three basic tools: a pickaxe for mining, a short sword for combat, and an axe for woodcutting. Many resources, notably ores, can be found while mining or exploring underground caves. Some resources and most items may only be found in certain areas of the map, stored in common and rare containers, or only dropped by certain enemies.
Players use resources to craft new items and equipment at an appropriate crafting station for that recipe. For example, tables can be crafted at a work bench or bars smelted from ore at a furnace. Many advanced items in Terraria require several crafting operations, where the product of one recipe will be used as the ingredient for another.
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