G2A Pick of the Week: Terraria

Every week, Team Liquid will supply you with their pick for the G2A Game of the Week, which you can buy at an extremely discounted rate thanks to the G2A Weekly Sale. This week, we’ve chosen a game with many ways to play, the 2D sidescroller Terraria. You can get the game right now at www.g2a.com/weeklysale for $2.96, a whopping 72% off its current price.

The Review: Terraria

Some people say Terraria is just a 2D-Minecraft but really, that doesn’t do the game any justice at all. Terraria is set in a two-dimensional open world where the vast majority of time spent is digging and building. But deep in the core of Terraria is a massive game with lots of action and many many ways to play.



Boiled down, Terraria is all about discovery. That discovery comes in many forms: exploration brings the discovery of new environments, resource collection brings the discovery of new craftable items, and progression through the game brings the discovery of new enemies to fight as well as new game mechanics.

Once you start the game, have gone through the tutorial, and have secured a spawn point with a lightly defensible living space, the real game begins. Traveling in either direction reveals new biomes, each with their own flora and fauna. More important is downward travel, into the caves. Many of the useful resources can be found there, including ores that can be used to craft better tools, weapons, and armor, which you then be use to dig and fight more effectively.



One of the core elements of Terraria that sets it apart from being a 2D Minecraft is that as you explore, find new things, and gain power. The world itself then reacts accordingly. While there isn't a written narrative per se, there is a definite progression of events, and it makes the world feel more alive.

In addition to the progression of events, there are also triggers that affect gameplay on a fundamental level. The early game is largely about resource collection and survival. Digging into the dirt focuses more on exploration and combat. Even further down and it almost becomes a puzzle game as the player attempts to mine ore while avoiding lava flows. And that's not even to mention what happens when you instead decide to explore up.



Simply put, Terraria is enormous, not only in size, but also in scope. Just when you think you have seen everything there is to see in the world, you find something new. Just when you start to get comfortable, a new element shows up to contend with. Even though it happens continually, it is somehow surprising every time.