I’m addicited to this new game I found out about yesterday. It’s called Terraria, and it’s a 2d old style graphics platformer/rpg. 

It’s hard to describe exactly what Terraria is about. After you generate a completely random world, you build houses, mine resources, make cool weapons like swords and boomerangs, make cool armor, and fight lots of different types of enemies including bosses. It all sounds so simple, but its really addicting!
At first you struggle a lot, building yourself up to become stronger by mining resources underground and using those resources to make better weapons and armor. It really rewards you for your hard mining and building skills, and by that I mean you can find tresure cheasts underground that hold powerful items and money in them, as well as building things with the resources you collect. And there’s these NPCs that randomly appear in houses that you built as long as you meet certain conditions, and the various NPCs help you out by healing you, a merchant you can buy and sell stuff from, and a demolitions expert that will sell you demolitions! There’s other NPCs out there as well!

I’ve showed the game to my brother, and to my friend, and now they’re really into the game too! My brother and I even started playing multiplayer where we can play together at the same time. It’s 10x more fun with multiplayer!

So check the game out on youtube, or head over to Steam and get a copy! The game is only $10 (3kd) and it’s easily worth much more. 

http://www.terraria.org/

http://store.steampowered.com/app/105600/

And if you’re having trouble getting started or need some information, check out the wiki:

http://terraria.wikia.com/wiki/Terraria_Wiki