User blog comment:GamerXpertise/Is Terraria Worth To buy?/@comment-3157150-20120426090737

I do think it's worth purchasing, both whether you enjoy playing RPG-orientated games and sandbox-orientated games. I personally bought it for the former reason, rather than the latter, as I already had Minecraft at the time. It's grown on me as a sandbox game though, and I still play it even now.

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