Terraria “still sells like hot cakes, it makes it hard to move on”

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Terraria still flies off the digital shelves twelve years on, as developer Re-Logic works on finishing the upcoming Terraria 1.4.5 update. While the next patch has been pitched as its last, with real talk of Terraria 2 development taking place, we’ve certainly been here many times before only to see new updates emerge. For his part, the creator of one of the best sandbox games says he has lots more game ideas that he’d like to bring to life, but acknowledges what incredible demand his breakout hit still inspires.

“After twelve years the game still sells like hot cakes,” Andrew ‘Redigit’ Spinks says on Twitter, in response to a question about whether the game has slowed down in recent years. “There is so much demand it makes it hard to move on.” The last sales update from Re-Logic proves his point; back in May, the team announced that they’d hit 44.5 million units sold, comfortably reaffirming its place as one of the best-selling games of all time.

In fact, Terraria YouTuber James ‘ChippyGaming’ Bennett points to a rather staggering statistic, which Spinks also shares. “From April 2020 to April 2022, Terraria’s sales went from 30 million to 44.5 million. On average that’s 604,000 copies a month!” It’s astonishing to realise that in the last two years, Terraria has actually increased its total sales by nearly 50% of the amount achieved in its first decade.

Re-Logic’s head of business strategy, Ted ‘Loki’ Murphy, also chimes in on the milestone. “What is crazy is that I remember being so excited about celebrating the 10 million milestone… it keeps accelerating though.” He doesn’t give away where the numbers are at now, but does tease, “Who knows, maybe we’ve already hit another milestone and are just waiting to share it for