Recent reviews by Scott Morrison

The entire game world is destructible, and breaking block lets you collect core resources like stone, wood, and iron that can be used to make cool gear or build structures. Rarer resources are dropped when you slay skeletons, floating fanged critters, and other monsters or when you dig deeper into the subterranean underworld. Since such a large portion of Terraria's gameplay revolves around foraging for different components and seeing what you can build with them, the drive to explore every nook and cranny of the landscape kicks in right away. But it's important to temper your desire to set out exploring in hopes of amassing huge quantities of loot with the pressing need to build shelter and expand your spawn point's home base.

Life on the surface follows a day/night cycle. Exploring topside during the daytime is safer – you can pick flowers, roam around, chop trees, and kill weak slimes that roam too close. It's also a perfect time to build houses that serve as shelter and attract helpful NPC characters to your settlement. Things get dicey when night falls; zombie hordes and floating eyeball beasts come out in droves, forcing you to fight or flee. That's less of an issue once you get a sturdy settlement started.

The village development aspect of the game is a clever addition – once you discover it exists. You can throw together bare-bones shacks or craft elaborate fortresses that tower upward into the heavens. Either way, you want to deck them out with enough accoutrements to lure NPCs to your village. These support characters can heal you, sell you items, and offer other helpful services. You have to complete a specific task to attract them, and even then they only appear if you've created a room (complete with walls, furniture, lighting, etc.) for them to stay. This offers some tangible incentives to spend time building, beyond the desire to lord over a large stronghold.

You face certain challenges, depending on your playtime and items and skill, etc, eg, Lunar Eclipse, Blood Moon, Goblin Army etc.

Best game ever 10/10 IGN