Terraria
BANGER · RPG · 2011
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $9.99.
- Length
- 51.7h
- Value
- $0.19/hr
- Reviews
- 97% positive
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Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!
What drives the score
How to read this
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The value story
The lowest price on record is $1.99, set in June 2014. 74 discounts in the 14 years on record. They run about 50 percent off, roughly 8 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 3 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 8 weeks.
Value puts it in the top 1 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 61 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. It outscores the games it most resembles, including Necesse ($9.74, scores 79) and Starbound ($14.99, scores 77).
On this data it would still be a BANGER at $77.44. It costs $9.99.
Critics scored it 83. Players sit 14 points higher at 97 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.
Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 15 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written July 2026 to September 2026. That is fewer refunded reviewers than 8 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 3,416 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 2,794 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 84 percent of the 28,333 reviews written there were positive, against 97 percent overall, and those are 2 percent of everything written about it.
51.7 hours to finish it, 206 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 4.0 times the campaign.
15 years after release it still had 24.6K people in it at once.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, so it runs on the handheld without fiddling.
The drop-off
87% start to <1% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
24.6K players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
My personal favorite game of all time. This should should be in everyone's top 10 list, great game on all levels. If you don't trust me, ill buy this game for you!!!
The eternal debate: Terraria vs. Minecraft. For me, this battle is long over, and the winner is clear: Terraria. And it's not even that there's a bottomless ocean of content, or that mods like Calamity transform the game into a completely new universe. No, the main thing is something else. It was one of the very first games of this genre that I ever completely immersed myself in. And even though I've played it...
During my entire 160 hours of playing terraria on practically the same world, i have to say that it was a truly unforgettable experience. I decided to play my first ever run of this game on master mode difficultly with a crimson world (regrettably because corruption mogs tf out of crimson), and dived into the game with little to no knowledge of how to really progress the game. The grind of prepping for bosses and...
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Terraria scores 97/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/105600/terrariaThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 10, price as of Sep 24.
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