Terraria’s wild popularity means its devs still can’t give it up - but not for lack of trying

12 years and multiple final updates later, the 2D sandbox game continues to “sell like hot cakes”.

Is there such thing as too much success? In the case of smash-hit 2DMinecraft-a-likeTerraria, its devs at Re-Logic might agree - they’ve apparently been trying to stop developing it for years, but it just won’t stop being so darn popular.

Of course, Terraria is second only to Doom in terms of where you can play it, coming to every imaginable console, mobile platform and even the gone-but-also-forgotten Google Stadia over the last decade-plus.

As if making a boatload of money wasn’t good enough, Terraria is also widely beloved, becoming the first game on Steam to receive over one million user reviews and maintain an “Overwhelming Positive” rating as of last summer. More importantly, it’s both one ofour favourite survival games of all time- andone of yours, too.

Business and marketing chief Ted Murphy toldPC Gamerthat update 1.3 was originally intended to be the last big release for Terraria - adding an Expert mode, achievements, hundreds of items and more besides - before the game’s enduring popularity led to eight more years (and counting) of additions both big and small.

Surprise, surprise: that still wasn’t the end of things. After a crossover with fellow indie survival sandbox darling Don’t Starve, last year saw the release of theLabor of Love updatein response to the game winning the player-voted Steam award of the same name. (That darn popularity!)

Since then, there’s been the announcement ofan official Terraria board game, along with plans for another crossover - this time with roguelite platformerDead Cells- in what Re-Logic is now describing as theabsolutely-definitely-no-for-real-this-time last major updateand “final stretch” for the game in patch 1.4.5.

“At some point, it feels right to start work on a second project,” Murphy remarked, before admitting that the team will “never say never” to yet more updates for Terraria. “When will Terraria’s final update truly happen? I don’t even think we can say that with certainty.”

As it happens, Terraria ishalf price on Steam right now, if you somehow haven’t already bought it and want to bind its devs to another decade of punishing popularity and financial success.