Looking for games similar to Terraria - 2d sandbox, exploration, crafting, fighting

[Arkitech]

I've been looking for something similar to Terraria for awhile now. Unfortunately right now there's not a whole lot out there worth checking out.

Starbound should be reaching beta stage soon.

Edge of Space looks promising but I'd like to test out a demo of it before spending money.

Dark Out also has potential, but after playing it for a couple days I can see that it needs a lot tweaking.

Minecraft is fun for about 20 minutes, but after awhile without having a variety of enemies, bosses or other elements gets extremely boring for me.


Any other games out there that's Terraria-ish worth checking out?

 

[pontifex]

towns

i think thats what it's called. although you don't have direct control of your people and when i played it last (in alpha i think) it was kind of lacking.

 

[clok1966]

Planet Explorers is free (once steam greenlights it wont be) beta.. think Minecraft with real graphics.. SPaceship crash lands on planet.. you have to start by chopping trees down and killing stuff to make .. more stuff.. you slowly build up. Voxel engine so when you dig a hole.. its realistic , you can dig into a wall and make a cave etc.. some mobs are agressive, some are not.. things change at night.. freeked me out with some yellow bliniking eyes oin dark, went ot look and died.. as daylight came it was a giant spider thing.. agressive
http://pathea.net/planet-explorers

Towns as mentioned is good also, its more like Settlers, god sim

 

[KaOTiK]

Starbound is suppose to be a SciFi Teraria basically
http://playstarbound.com/

 

[clamum]

I came in here to suggest Starbound (just heard about it from a co-worker) but I see you already know about it.

 

[lozina]

Try the game Salem. You take the role of a clueless settler landing in the new world and you wander around picking up items to study and learn skills and increase proficiencies allowing you to craft more and more stuff. Eventually you can claim a piece of land, chop trees, build yourself a cabin, hunt wild game, tan leather, mine for ore, smelt iron, farm crops... its got a sharp learning curve and has some awkward interface but its addictive as hell.

If you do get into it, make sure you download the separate client called "Enders client" and enable the free style camera

 

[pontifex]

Oh, there's also Don't Starve


That planet explorers game looked very interesting from the video so I downloaded the client and it sucks ass. Takes forever to get materials, enemies are super strong so you have basically no way to defend yourself. I did manage to make some stuff but it didn't really help that much.

 

[clok1966]

Oh, there's also Don't Starve


That planet explorers game looked very interesting from the video so I downloaded the client and it sucks ass. Takes forever to get materials, enemies are super strong so you have basically no way to defend yourself. I did manage to make some stuff but it didn't really help that much.

strange in maybe 6 or so hours i had guns (place-able) that will kill any enemy i have seen (in 20-30 hours of gameplay) and in the first 10 minutes it teaches you how to make wood guns which can kill anything in the starter area. Equipping crap weapons (make in first 20-30 minutes of gameplay) and bringing a couple people with you (you get more people in about the first 30 minutes if you follow the quests) i could kill most anything but the SPider QUEEN thingy... and she is only in the dark (wont come near light)... i will admit mining is a bit slow.. more then a bit.. but if you plan a bunker its not so bad (duel work, mine and living area at same time). I wont lie the start is a bit slow.. felt like minecraft (survival mode)to me.. just much more varied and interesting.


but to each their own.. I will say it needs alot of work, it is an alpha.. i enjoyed, you did not.. to sides..

 

[JD50]

Starbound looks cool, can't wait for the beta.

 

[ThinClient]

Minecraft is fun for about 20 minutes, but after awhile without having a variety of enemies, bosses or other elements gets extremely boring for me.

You've never been to the Nether, have you.

Minecraft isn't an arcade game. It's an adventure game.

 

[natto fire]

You've never been to the Nether, have you.

Minecraft isn't an arcade game. It's an adventure game.

With the various mods and texture packs, it also has quite a bit of polish too. Gamers today are too lazy and want everything working "out of the box" I am more of a tinkerer myself.

 

[toughtrasher]

All these great new indie games revolving around the gameplay mechanics of Terraria - exciting!!

 

[pontifex]

strange in maybe 6 or so hours i had guns (place-able) that will kill any enemy i have seen (in 20-30 hours of gameplay) and in the first 10 minutes it teaches you how to make wood guns which can kill anything in the starter area. Equipping crap weapons (make in first 20-30 minutes of gameplay) and bringing a couple people with you (you get more people in about the first 30 minutes if you follow the quests) i could kill most anything but the SPider QUEEN thingy... and she is only in the dark (wont come near light)... i will admit mining is a bit slow.. more then a bit.. but if you plan a bunker its not so bad (duel work, mine and living area at same time). I wont lie the start is a bit slow.. felt like minecraft (survival mode)to me.. just much more varied and interesting.


but to each their own.. I will say it needs alot of work, it is an alpha.. i enjoyed, you did not.. to sides..

huh? it didn't teach me anything. no tutorial whatsoever. i did build a sentry gun thing but the enemies just destroyed it. there was only 1 person, like a trader. there were no quests.

maybe I played the wrong game or the wrong mode or something?

 

[Kalmah]

Dwarf Fortress is my suggestion.

 

[clok1966]

huh? it didn't teach me anything. no tutorial whatsoever. i did build a sentry gun thing but the enemies just destroyed it. there was only 1 person, like a trader. there were no quests.

maybe I played the wrong game or the wrong mode or something?

first person has you do 2-3 simple quest ( gather wood, make shovel, dig up kit, build archer guns, gather some food)then tells you to go NE of your location to the next "crash site" (its about 1-2 minutes walk) in about 20 minutes of gameplay.. there is a camp there with 3-4 people.. one a doctor (heals that person at start) and 2 of the people in the camp will join you if you ask them (so you are effectively 3 people, cant get gang raped by one mob) I had all 3 equipped with swords and Armour in first 30 minutes of game (one day of actual game time).. from there it does slow a bit (mining is to slow in game I agree 100%)..again.. no problem you don't like it, But im just explaining it seems you didn't even play 30 minutes, and if you did you didn't do any of the starter quests which basically tell you how to do stuff (again, its alpha, no instructions or tutorial so some is a bit tricky to figure out at first. i wont say im dumb, but im no super wiz and figured um all out with some trial and error).

my cons: interacting with objects is precise. No more chopping a tree down from 3 feet away, you have to click right on base of it and be close. Killing first mobs.. (non hostile) is way to tedious, they run and it can take 2-3 hits to kill (once you get help they go do almost instant). Digging is to slow. I am hoping some of this is changed before release.. I can live with most but the slow azz diggin..

Pros: appears to be a HUGE world (its not random, so a landmark is a landmark for everybody). its strange new world, no help on what is what, you figure out who is hostile and who inst. variety of stuff.. creatures, plants landscapes.. it keep getting new stuff as you move to new areas (cant see it can last to much longer.. but so far its cool).. the carrot on stick approach to items.. you get a few learn to use them well, and get more after..

no, not all games are for everybody.. but of all the free roam sandbox games I like this one the most so far.. got way to much that needs to be done, but the core is there.. but its just an opinion , and i haven't tried um all ...

 

[pontifex]

first person has you do 2-3 simple quest ( gather wood, make shovel, dig up kit, build archer guns, gather some food)then tells you to go NE of your location to the next "crash site" (its about 1-2 minutes walk) in about 20 minutes of gameplay.. there is a camp there with 3-4 people.. one a doctor (heals that person at start) and 2 of the people in the camp will join you if you ask them (so you are effectively 3 people, cant get gang raped by one mob) I had all 3 equipped with swords and Armour in first 30 minutes of game (one day of actual game time).. from there it does slow a bit (mining is to slow in game I agree 100%)..again.. no problem you don't like it, But im just explaining it seems you didn't even play 30 minutes, and if you did you didn't do any of the starter quests which basically tell you how to do stuff (again, its alpha, no instructions or tutorial so some is a bit tricky to figure out at first. i wont say im dumb, but im no super wiz and figured um all out with some trial and error).

my cons: interacting with objects is precise. No more chopping a tree down from 3 feet away, you have to click right on base of it and be close. Killing first mobs.. (non hostile) is way to tedious, they run and it can take 2-3 hits to kill (once you get help they go do almost instant). Digging is to slow. I am hoping some of this is changed before release.. I can live with most but the slow azz diggin..

Pros: appears to be a HUGE world (its not random, so a landmark is a landmark for everybody). its strange new world, no help on what is what, you figure out who is hostile and who inst. variety of stuff.. creatures, plants landscapes.. it keep getting new stuff as you move to new areas (cant see it can last to much longer.. but so far its cool).. the carrot on stick approach to items.. you get a few learn to use them well, and get more after..

no, not all games are for everybody.. but of all the free roam sandbox games I like this one the most so far.. got way to much that needs to be done, but the core is there.. but its just an opinion , and i haven't tried um all ...

i figured it out...i did adventure mode first instead of story. when i went to story mode, i got the quests and all that. dunno how you're supposed to survive in adventure mode....almost everything is hostile and you start out with nothing but that crappy blue dagger thing.

 

[SMOGZINN]

I downloaded planet explorers over the weekend and tried to play it with no luck.

The game runs really badly on my 2500K + HD7950, low frame rate and choppy. If I run it at my monitors native resolution of 1920X1200 the text is unreadable, not just to small but actually distorted.

Once I spent some time lowering the graphics and running it in a lower resolution I was able to play the game. I played for about 10 minutes, talked to the woman got to the storage, and the game locked up, became unresponsive and finally crashed to the desktop.

Rebooted my computer, and tried again. This time the game actually played for an hour or so. Spent a lot of it wandered around looking for a peach flower, then trying to figure out how to make a herb potion. But after a learning curve I managed to get a few quests done. Then she asked me to put down some arrow turrets. Making a base for it was a arduous task. I couldn't manage to make a 3x3 flat platform to sit the thing on, my platforms always had a point on it somewhere, and the undo never seemed to work, so I had to take my shovel and dig it out and retry. Finally got a flat area and place a turret, and the game crashes to desktop. Load back in and have to start over on the platform. Finally get it made, and the turret placed but it is pitch black and I am nearly out of stamina. So, I decide to place my bed and get some sleep to restore stamina. The bed is a bit buggy, but I manage to place it and click on it to select the 'sleep' command. When my character lays down the bed bounces me into the sky and kills me. I hit the respawn button and respawn right on the bed which nearly launches me orbital. I fall well away from the bed and respawn again, walk back and pick up the bed. I guess that the problem was that the ground was rough and create a platform for the bed. As soon as I place the bed on the platform the game crashes to the desktop again.
I finally get my bed on the platform, and this makes the bed less bouncy. I manage to sleep the night on it (even though my character is bouncing around), but I regain no stamina.

By now I've spend something like 4 hours on the game, and all I've seemed to have accomplished is a feeling of frustration. So, I quit and deleted the game.

TL;DR:
It looks like it will be a fun game.
Right now it is very buggy.
I'll download it again after a few more builds works some of the worst bugs out.

 

[CPA]

Craft the World. I like it better than Terraria.