Minecraft Player Vs Terraria Game Analysis

Minecraft players and Terraria players are often butting heads over which game is better. I view this conflict from a neutral standpoint, as I play both games happily. But how truly similar are these games? That is the question I am here to answer today. I will only be discussing the PC platforms for both games, because these are the ones I am familiar with. Let's start with real world statistics: Price and copies sold. Minecraft costs $26.95 U.S. dollars, and has sold over 22 million copies on the PC platform alone. Overall, Minecraft is an extremely popular game. On the other hand, Terraria for PC costs around $15 U.S. dollars and has sold over 12 million copies as of June 2015. Although less popular, Terraria is another game that
has exploded in popularity. Minecraft is more expensive, but has sold more copies than Terraria. Now, let's go into the content of the games. We'll begin with aspects of single-player. For starters, we'll discuss world size. In Terraria, when you create a world, you have a choice between three world sizes: Small, medium, and large. They're all pretty big, but still limited. However, a Minecraft world is infinite. You can walk in one direction for real-life days and you will never find the same pattern of the world or world edge. So on that note, Minecraft wins for sure. For the next question, how many ores are in both games? Minecraft has eight ores: Iron, Coal, Gold, Diamond, Lapis Lazuli, Nether Quartz, Redstone, and Emerald. They're used for a variety of things, from crafting to building. Terraria has twenty-one types of ores, however, you can only gain thirteen of them in a single world using a single character. The worlds have a chance of spawning alternate ores, such as lead instead of iron and tungsten instead of silver. Therefore, only thirteen out of the twenty-one ores are obtainable in a single world with a single character. However, this still beats Minecraft's eight. Point for Terraria! Crafting is a huge part of both games.
It's how you get better things, to reach the end goal of both games: Defeat the final boss. But how is crafting different in both games? In Minecraft, the crafting interface is a 2x2 or 3x3 grid, depending on if you're doing it from your inventory or from a crafting table. You place the items on the grid in a certain pattern to craft the item, which you pick up from the output slot. This is a very hands-on way, and allows you to discover new ways to make new things. Crafting in Terraria is much different, needing only the corresponding crafting station and the materials. You open your inventory, and on the side of the screen is a list of things you can craft with what you have in your inventory. You click on one and it's put into your inventory, taking the items you used out of it. I personally prefer Minecraft's crafting method because it's more hands-on and actually requires less resources most of the time, so point for Minecraft. Another important aspect of both games is combat. Minecraft is a 3D game, and Terraria is 2D, so naturally the actual combat feel of Minecraft is better. However, Minecraft doesn't have nearly as many mobs or bosses as Terraria. Terraria has fifteen bosses currently in use. Minecraft has two. Terraria has too many hostile mobs to name at this point, and Minecraft has nineteen currently in use. So point for both games, as Terraria has more pontential battles and Minecraft has the 3D aspect that gives a better
effect. So, there we go! We've covered most basic aspects of both games. The score that's been given is Minecraft four, Terraria three. However, this is just a number. Some people prefer one game over the other for their own reasons, which is perfectly fine. Whatever you like is your choice. I hope you enjoyed my comparison of two popular sandbox games.