As Terraria’s subsequent main patch approaches, developer Re-Logic has revealed it’s “onerous to maneuver on” and begin a brand new undertaking owing to the success and demand generated by the 2011 cult recreation.
“After 12 years the sport nonetheless sells like sizzling truffles,” stated Re-Logic head Andrew Spinks in a Twitter submit from his now deactivated account, as reported by PC Gamer. “There is a lot demand it makes it onerous to maneuver on.”
Since its launch in May 2011, Terraria has graced each lively gaming platform below the solar, starting from the PC and Nintendo Switch to the PlayStation Vita, smartphones, and even Google Stadia, following a fraught growth course of.
During its 12-year lifespan Terraria has expanded considerably in scope, due to a slew of patches and free content material updates. It is now one of many best-selling video games of all time, with over 44 million copies bought as of May 2022. It can also be one of many most-played video games in Steam historical past, boasting a concurrent participant peak of just about 490,000 in May 2020, with a present all-time approval score of 97 %.
But all good issues should come to an finish, and it appears developer Re-Logic’s lengthy, and arguably heroic show of post-launch assist might end with Terraria’s subsequent main replace, patch 1.4.5. Or, it wont. Only time will inform. The (doubtlessly) remaining 1.4.5 replace will see crossover content material from the roguelite metroidvania Dead Cells make its method to the sport, together with a slew of different updates and enhancements.
It’s value noting this isn’t the primary time Re-Logic has sought to place a bow on Terraria’s post-launch updates. In an interview with PC Gamer, Re-Logic’s head of enterprise technique and advertising Ted Murphy identified the crew had initially supposed to finish assist for the sport with patch 1.3 again in 2015. However, the crew had too many “cool concepts” and “unfinished enterprise, so to talk”, to stroll away from the sport.
2020’s Journey’s End replace represented one other stepping-off level, however that too was adopted by a string of patches. Murphy now believes the time could also be ripe “to start out work on a second undertaking”, which might permit the crew to “discover concepts which may not work, or work as effectively within the present iteration and know-how of Terraria”.
However, Murphy additionally didn’t rule out the potential of subsequent updates. “We’ve felt that method earlier than — so we do by no means say by no means. When will Terraria’s remaining replace actually occur? I don’t even suppose we will say that with certainty.”
In June Re-Logic revealed it had teamed up with Paper Fort Games to develop a Terraria board recreation. The crowdfunded providing will “develop the universe of Terraria by faithfully combining the digital recreation’s biome exploration, character development, base constructing, and epic fight with tabletop mechanisms”, in keeping with a Steam retailer replace. No launch date has but been given for the undertaking, past the admission it seemingly gained’t launch till 2024 on the earliest.
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