Terraria

Terraria is a 2011 action-adventure sandbox game developed by Re-Logic. The 3DS version of Terraria was published by 505 Games and developed by Codeglue and was released on December 10, 2015. It is a port of CodeGlue’s  Mobile version. This version contains exclusive content not available on other versions, including enemies, armor, weapons, pets, and bosses. Terraria is a 2D sandbox game with gameplay that revolves around exploration, building, crafting, combat, survival, and mining, playable in both single-player and multiplayer modes. 

The game has a 2D sprite tile-based graphical style reminiscent of the 16-bit sprites found on the Super NES. The game is noted for its classic exploration-adventure style of gameplay, similar to games such as the Metroid series and Minecraft. The game starts in a procedurally generated world, with players starting out with basic tools and a non-player character (NPC) guide to get them started and bring their attention to aspects of the game and progression.

The game’s world is made up of several layers of tiles that players can interact with and modify. Many resources, such as metal ores, can be found while exploring caves. Players begin with low health, mana, and summon slots, which can be increased by finding and crafting specific equipment or items. Some resources may only be found in specific areas of the map, stored in common and rare containers, or dropped by certain enemies.

Players use resources to craft new items and equipment. Different recipes require different resources and crafting stations. Several items in Terraria create complex crafting trees involving a large amount of items to create a single powerful piece of equipment. Players have the option to customize their character’s appearance when creating a new character, and in-game through items and NPCs. Along with that, players can obtain vanity items, which are special armor pieces and accessories with only a cosmetic effect, and dyes to change the color of equipped armor or accessories.

Characters have three inventory slots for armor to be equipped, and several inventory slots for various accessories to provide a boost to a player’s statistics, such as wings or boots, as well as vanity slots for all of them, allowing them to be hidden behind cosmetics while retaining their effects. Much like most Terraria items, armor and accessories can be crafted, found around the world, and obtained from defeating bosses.