Terraria hits all-time highs on its ninth anniversary

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Nine years to the day after its release on Steam, Terraria has hit its all-time high player count with nearly 500,000 players at once. With what is now an all-time player peak of 489,886, Terraria is today's third most-played game on Steam behind storefront exclusives CS: GO and Dota 2. It's also currently Steam's top-selling game, which is pretty impressive for a game that has already sold 14 million copies on PC. and today's top selling game. The surge of interest in the game is due to its just-released Journey's End update bringing nine years of continuous game development to a close.
It'll be free to those who own Terraria—as is always the way—and will be revisiting nearly everything in the game, making wide ranging changes that would be major even if there weren't any new content. But there is new content, including over 800 new items. That’s an increase of roughly 120 percent over what's in the game currently. So, here's everything we know about Terraria: Journey's End so far.
The official blog post breaks down the additions without going into specifics.
You can learn more about Terraria and find it a cross a ton of platforms on the official Terraria website.
 
I'm just impressed this game was being actively updated for 9 years. Don't see that very often with any type of game, let alone an indie game without a large company backing it up.

On another note, I still can't think of Terraria without remembering that its creator was the guy who made Super Mario Bros X before it.
 
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