Terraria creator Andrew Spinks says the indie recreation sells so effectively that he can’t cease updating it or work on different initiatives. Spinks made the touch upon Twitter previous to his account being deleted from the platform (thanks, PCGamesN).

Terraria updates are the “closing tour” of video video games, as Re-Logic has promised the subsequent replace can be its final for a number of years solely to place out yet one more one. There’s a fairly good purpose for that as effectively.

Spinks stated that gross sales of Terraria truly elevated by 50 p.c in two years between 2020 and 2022 in comparison with the full gross sales from 2011, when Terraria first launched on PC, by means of 2019.

Granted, the worldwide pandemic in 2020 in all probability performed a major function within the recreation’s recognition spike, although it’s nonetheless a major achievement anyway.

“After twelve years the sport nonetheless sells like scorching desserts,” Spinks stated. “There’s a lot demand it makes it exhausting to maneuver on.”

Spinks stated he has at the least three separate initiatives he’d wish to work on finally, although the plan for now could be to maintain placing out Terraria updates and including to the sport – at the least within the brief time period. Whitney Spinks, vice chairman of Terraria developer Re-Logic stated Terraria’s future well being would in all probability profit if the workforce took time to create one thing new after which revisited the hit sandbox recreation with a contemporary outlook.

In the meantime, Re-Logic remains to be engaged on Terraria 1.4.5, a brand new replace that has no agency launch date but.

Written by Josh Broadwell on behalf of GLHF