josefit's weird to me that Terraria is one of the best selling games of all time. like, i can definitely see that it was a successful game with a fun mechanic, and most of my friends had a copy at some point, and we played together a dozen or so times for a few months when it first came out, and i really enjoyed it. but it definitely doesn't have the same level of 'mindshare' as games it hugely outsold. e.g. i've personally never met Terraria Megafans where the only thing they're into is Terraria
Flandere@jk it's probably because it's exactly that kind of game where you don't have megafans, only casualfans, that it reached so many people.
It's easy to pick up, it's goal-oriented, but you still have sandbox freedom. You can play by yourself or however many friends you want. It's unreasonably cheap, especially during sales. They kept adding more and more content to game, for free, long after its full release.
It's a lot of things adding up to its success, I think, and some of them started compounding. 
