Terraria: Sidescrolling Minecraft!

my kids play the ish out of this game

Terraria vs. Crashlands vs. Starbound. What should I get to waste my vacation on?

if you haven't played any of them i think terraria is probably the best. starbound is ok but when i played it it didn't have quite as much in it (tho maybe they've added more since?)

I watched a dude playing Terraria on twitch and he spent a LOT of time managing inventory, that's kind of my only misgiving

iirc starbound will have similar inventory management issues. crashlands has an infinite inventory w/ auto-sorting system but i haven't spent very much time on it so i don't know if it's actually fun.

I got Crashlands. Will report back.

The Terraria: Otherworld sequel looks like it might be amazing?

(Assuming it isn't stillborn - https://twitter.com/tow_game not looking great)

I got this on the iPad, finally. The mobile controls are not as terrible as I had assumed they would be. There is a magnifying glass effect that allows you to be precise with tools and block placing, even though character movement and combat are crazy. I can see why hardcore and expert mode are not an option for mobile. I'm going to have to tank everything.

i can't believe how long it takes to progress. i haven't even found the first boss yet, after playing for about 6 hours or so.

I found the jungle just to the west of my base camp, that's been plenty boss for now.

I desperately want to try out the local mobile multiplayer, but I have no friends and the kid's not old enough. FML

OK, so the kid is old enough for minecraft now (creative mode of course) but maybe not something where the bunnies' heads pop off with a splat noise whenever they wander into range of your flailing pickaxe.

Last night I was just mining the corruption by throwing a half-gross of bombs into a hole, as one does, and accidentally blew up two shadow orbs at once, summoning the Eater of Worlds. Wearing nothing but a suit of armor made from pumpkins and armed with my trusty katana, I wore down the beast and killed it, thanks in no small part to the flying carpet I retrieved from a buried pyramid and the bottled cloud of steam that I wear on my belt. Also, in the middle of the battle, my iPad had to interrupt to inform me that its battery was at 10%, which is an extra shot of adrenaline I don't think you get to experience on PC.

I am almost regretting putting this down for a year so I could get over what a PITA the crafting is and just get on with my life as a warrior-architect

Here's some shit that is likely to happen while you're trying to remodel your apartment building (thank goodness I replaced my pumpkin helmet with one made out of some kind of purple metal referred to as "demonite" - I am sure nothing bad will come of wearing this material on my head at all times):

• The moon will turn red, and the zombies will all of a sudden figure out how to open doors.
• A goblin army will approach from the west. They just take the doors right off the fucking hinges, because goblins have no respect.
• A huge fuckoff disembodied eyeball (which can apparently move through some kind of 3rd dimension, thus ignoring all barriers (including but not limited to doors)) will show up, have a bunch of flying eyeball babies at you, and then turn into a huge fuckoff bloodshot Pac-Man until you stab it to death.
• The goblins will come back again, because you know something about people who have no respect? They don't respect themselves, either.