Terraria

Mouse can't reach entire screen.

Just buy it! There is nothing more to say.

"Your mind goes numb..." "You are overwhelmed with pain..." "Otherworldly voices linger around you..." As others have pointed out, it's fun and well-made - but I can never recommend it. I should have taken the hint when my video card incinerated itself the first time I loaded the game. I should have turned back from crafting macabre items on a "demon altar" to summon evil entities to fight. I should have quit when told to go to the underworld and make a living sacrifice. Et cetera. But I wanted to progress so I could build more stuff. Almost 1500 hours on Steam. Regret. A game is never just a game, same with books and video and music. All are influence messages from one mind to another - you. Keep your wits about you, carefully taste what you're fed, and don't do anything in a game that you wouldn't do if given the choice in real life. Don't end up like me, having a lengthy recovery to go through.

Better than Trove or Minecraft but still a very empty game 12 hours playing it was enough for me. The better mechanics of crafting which do not destroy the materials accidentally still don't offset the toughness of the enemies and the paucity of rewards, as it creates an artificial scarcity of the main tool crafting materials (metal) without any way to actually find them, except randomly by digging up huge tracts of biomes, by clicking. Also this game is in a sore need of a command queue like the old granddaddy Diablo, because most things you do in Terraria are utterly utterly boring and the speed of the villagers moving in is unacceptably slow (I built up 10+ furnished houses in various parts of various biomes as my bases and have a piddly 3 people living in my village. Overall - not as bad as Minecraft or Trove or some more recent topdown 2d survival games, but still too bad to be interesting. I'm deleting it to never install or play again - there's simply no point. Also - don't buy at full price (8.99 euro) - it's really not worth it.

Does not work on wine I get: System.InvalidProgramException: Missing or incorrect header for method Initialize at Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Game.Run