How many copies has Terraria sold?

indielist estimates Terraria has sold between 62,599,389 and 146,065,241 units (median 104,332,315), derived from its 1,227,439 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.

Who developed Terraria?

Terraria was developed by Re-Logic and published by Re-Logic.

Who published Terraria?

Terraria was published by Re-Logic, developed by Re-Logic. See Re-Logic's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.

How many reviews does Terraria have on Steam?

Terraria has 1,227,439 Steam reviews, of which 97% are positive.

Is Terraria worth playing?

Steam players rate Terraria 97% positive across 1,227,439 reviews. indielist doesn't score games editorially; it surfaces public review sentiment and a white-box sales estimate so you can judge reception and reach yourself.

Terraria

May 16, 2011 Action $9.99

Developer Re-Logic Publisher Re-Logic

Profile updated May 2026

Terraria, released in 2011, is an indie sandbox game with over 590,000 Steam reviews (97% positive). This self-published title offers extensive crafting and exploration.

Terraria is a 2011 Action game developed by Re-Logic and published by Re-Logic. On Steam it has gathered 1,227,439 player reviews, 97% of them positive, which counts as a overwhelmingly positive reception among indie titles in the Action category. The game is available on linux, mac, windows, and launched at $10. The pairing of developer Re-Logic with publisher Re-Logic is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Action projects reach the market. indielist's white-box method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 62.6 million to 146.1 million units, with the full Boxleiter factor breakdown shown on this page rather than a single black-box figure. Within indielist's catalog of indie games mapped to their studios, publishers, and funding, Terraria can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.

Reviews

1,227,439

Positive

97%

Steam appid

105600

Engine

Unknown

Players (snapshot)

38,950

Fresh snapshot · 2026-07-24 14:00 UTC · 24h peak 40,794

Sales estimate

v1.0

62.6M to 146.1M

units (median: 104.3M)

≈ $357.2M to $833.5M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)

62.6M median 146.1M

+ How is this calculated?

1,227,439 reviews × NB(85) = 104,332,315 median units

Factor	Adjustment
base	+50
year_2011	+30
price_$10	-5
positive_97%	+10
final NB	85

Heuristic display range: median × [0.6, 1.4]. Boundary protection: NB ∈ [15, 150].

Methodology & limitations

Sales estimates use an additive Boxleiter-derived heuristic against public Steam review counts. They are not authoritative sales data, and the fixed display range is not a statistically validated confidence interval. Actual results may fall outside it, especially for deeply discounted or bundle-heavy titles. Algorithm version v1.0. Read the exact method and validation status.

indielist estimates lifetime unit sales for Terraria at roughly 62.6 million to 146.1 million copies, with a median around 104.3 million, derived from its 1,227,439 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $595.4M in net revenue after Steam's 30% cut, regional pricing, and refunds. Unlike black-box trackers, the full calculation is shown on this page: a base review-to-sales multiplier is adjusted for release year, launch price, review sentiment, studio size, and genre, and every adjustment is listed so developers, publishers, and investors can audit exactly how the figure was reached. The range itself reflects genuine uncertainty — review-to-sales ratios vary widely between games — so indielist publishes a low, median, and high band rather than a false-precision single number, and treats free-to-play, heavily discounted, and bundle-distributed titles as having wider error margins still.

Price history

55 observed days · window low $4.99

Across 55 observed UTC days from 2026-05-15 to 2026-07-24, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $4.99 to $9.99. The tracked-window low was $4.99 on 2026-06-18.

Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.

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Platforms

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Frequently asked questions

How many copies has Terraria sold?: indielist estimates Terraria has sold between 62,599,389 and 146,065,241 units (median 104,332,315), derived from its 1,227,439 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
Who developed Terraria?: Terraria was developed by Re-Logic and published by Re-Logic.
Who published Terraria?: Terraria was published by Re-Logic, developed by Re-Logic. See Re-Logic's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
When was Terraria released?: Terraria was released in 2011.
How many reviews does Terraria have on Steam?: Terraria has 1,227,439 Steam reviews, of which 97% are positive.
Is Terraria worth playing?: Steam players rate Terraria 97% positive across 1,227,439 reviews. indielist doesn't score games editorially; it surfaces public review sentiment and a white-box sales estimate so you can judge reception and reach yourself.

Players looking for games like Terraria can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Action titles such as Starbound, Necesse, Voidtrain, Valheim, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Re-Logic's other releases and Re-Logic's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Terraria sits among a studio's body of work and how its publisher's portfolio performs. Because indielist maps studios, publishers, games, and funding into one connected graph, the same Terraria page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Action game, developers studying how comparable projects were positioned and what they sold, and investors tracing which teams and labels are active in the space. A machine-readable markdown mirror of this page is published at the same path with a .md suffix for AI assistants, and its review, price, and sales-estimate figures are refreshed on a schedule rather than frozen at launch.

Matched from shared Steam tags and primary genre. Review count breaks ties; it is not a personal recommendation score.