Based on the glowing reviews here, I thought this was going to be a great game. Unfortunately not. Only buy this game if you like a simplistic in variety side-scroller that makes you re-do the same part over and over when you die. I personally don't want to do this. It just makes me frustrated and angry at it. This is not entertainment and it's wasted money for me. It does though run flawlessly on LinuxMint 18.3.
This is an absolutely wonderful game! It's immersive, in depth, expansive, and has high re-playability due to worlds created randomly. Don't let the crude graphics fool you. There is so much to this game and will provide you with hours and hours of playing. I can't remember being so sucked into a game since the old single player Ultima games from my childhood. There is really something for everyone in here. If you want to just build and create things for the sake of just doing so, you can. Otherwise go explore, kill monsters, collect treasures and items and dig in any direction you want. This is not a game that leads you around by the nose. Which leads me to my only criticism about this game, and it's minor. You will have to go visit the "Official Terraria Wiki" web site quite frequently to find out what items do. I really think the developers should have provided an in game source of information for this. The game is playable without the wiki, but you won't know how to make things and what certain items actually do and even how to do some things. Thankfully though, they are quite clear what objects are just vanity items versus things that actually do something helpful for you in the game. The sheer amount of objects and items is rather mind blowing. This game runs beautifully on LinuxMint 18.3 64-bit Cinnamon. I have had no crashes or freezing of the program. The only thing it could really use is a program loading title screen. When I double click on the program launcher it appears like nothing is happening for roughly 30 seconds or so even though the game is actually loading. It does take a while for the computer to create new worlds, but once created, they load very quickly. One of my favorite things to do in the game so far is to dig underwater and drain large pockets of water to the bottom of the map. There is something really satisfying about that for some reason. You won't regret buying this game. Although you might regret all the hours played.
I enjoyed this game very much. It installed and played with no problems on LinuxMint 18.1 Cinnamon 64bit on older hardware, specifically, AMD Phenom II X6 1055T CPU, Nvidia GeForce GTX 750, and 16GB of RAM. The only technical issues I've had with it was once being unable to exit the game, sometimes with certain races you lose the engine noise of the cars, and you don't have enough time to read the hints while the race is loading. Otherwise it plays flawlessly. It's a really fun game with lots of re-playability in it. Think Mario Kart for adults. It like demolition racing. You have to finish races while trying to smash into your opponents. It has nutty side events that can either be demolition derbies which are crazy fun, and events where you have to launch your driver through the front windshield which is not as much fun. It's really a good time and has made me laugh way more than once. I would though recommend using a controller that has a slider to control the accelerator. I've been using my preference which is the keyboard, but it limits what I can drive effectively and well. As the accelerator is either full on or off. Cars with lots of power and acceleration just end up spinning out and being uncontrollable. The game does appear to have multi-player capability either locally on one screen or with other computers via LAN or Internet, but I have not tried it. Should be a fun game to play with friends this way.
The game installed and ran fine on LinuxMint 18.1 Cinnamon 64bit using AMD Phenom II X6 1055T CPU, Nvidia GeForce GTX 750 graphics card, and 16GB of RAM. An older computer for sure, but it ran with no performance problems that effected game play with the default medium graphical settings at 1920x1200 resolution. The only performance issue I had was a generous pause just before new quests are added or quests are modified. This does not effect game play. The game froze once, focus was lost on the character once, and several times the character got stuck. This is not too terrible considering the size, complexity, and length of the game. Heads up, this game requires software dependencies that are not included and will not be automatically installed during the game installation. They must be installed via the terminal. I've made a post in the GOG forums detailing how to do that. Game play: This game reminds me a lot of Dragon Age: Origins. If you liked that game you'll probably enjoy this one. You control a single character in third person from behind mode. Very dungeon and dragons like. Good plot. It's very political with lots of subterfuge, and you have to makes choices that effect the outcome of the game. So thusly there is no good or evil. You just support one side or the other. The fighting mechanics was interesting with some flaws, but not amazing. The graphics, story line, and creativity is well done. My biggest issue with this game is that approximately half of it is watching videos. I don't find this interesting at all. If I wanted to watch videos I'd do that. I want to play a game and interact with it. This is why I gave it a two star rating. I want more game play in a game, less watching videos. In addition, I find the re-playability of the game to be low.
