When launching a new world in Terraria, players typically let the game create a random map for them to explore. However, there is the option to manually input a code or word so that Terraria players know exactly — or at least have an idea of — what they are getting into. This is called the World Seed feature, and, as with the wacky world of Terraria mods and the sheer randomness of generated worlds, the possibilities are almost endless ..read more

The 2010s saw a gradual desire from players to return to the difficult gaming of their childhoods, a step away from the convenience and potential ease games could allow in the 21st century. It was an era dominated by the rise of the Soulsborne genre, and as an extension, a fascination with making games enjoyably hard once again ..read more

Many games, even within the survival genre, usually put a lot of emphasis on elements like combat, crafting, exploring, and gathering. Depending on the game, the actual building process might not be as deep or engaging as many would like ..read more

Survival games generally have the same core game mechanic, which entails their players to gather an assortment of resources and craft different items to maintain their characters’ health. This, along with establishing a base where they can come back to after various resource-gathering excursions, are crucial for such titles to be considered as survival games ..read more

The survival genre has taken off massively over the last decade, with a huge number of games coming in the wake of Minecraft after it ignited a passion in many gamers for base-building, crafting, and battle against enemies that come out during the night. Since that initial revolution, survival games have only continued to grow in popularity, with many of them focusing more on different aspects of what has helped make the survival game genre truly great ..read more

Terraria is a deceptively hard sandbox game, and a few general rules can keep players from dying too often in their generated world. Terraria is the kind of game that can keep a player invested for hours while they explore deeper and deeper below the surface. However, the game still has an overarching plot, or at the very least a goal for the player to work towards. Despite its colorful sprites, the road through the game is an impressive challenge to undertake. Terraria players need every advantage they can get, so they need to play strategically ..read more

While at first, games with pixel graphics were the only video games to exist due to the technology of the time, many developers over the years have found themselves returning to pixel graphics out of choice rather than necessity. Even in the open-world genre which is usually associated with realistic graphics, there are many great pixel art games, both new and old ..read more

Gaming “clones” are a familiar concept to many players, since a popular formula for a game can easily be reworked and changed enough to release a different but similar game that could garner interest solely off being similar in style to a popular game. This has been a familiar concept in the industry for years and there are few games that receive quite as many clones as Minecraft has managed ..read more

Survival games have grown reasonably popular in recent years, even if the genre will likely always be somewhat niche. These projects came in many shapes, sizes, and tones too, ranging from cartoonish grind-fest like Dysmantle to hellish open-world projects such as The Long Dark. Basically, there should be a survival game for just about anyone, and the genre's mechanics even occasionally show up in non-representative titles like Breath of the Wild and Days Gone ..read more

There are plenty of video games that are developed by AAA studios that are practically expected to be the next big thing in gaming, long before they even hit the market. However, it’s always more exciting when an indie darling can catch everyone by surprise and do even more with substantially less. Such is the case with Don’t Starve Together, the multiplayer update to the acclaimed game, Don’t Starve ..read more