Terraria's approaching its 14th anniversary, and developer Re-Logic's unending dedication to providing free patches to the sandbox game has made the idea of a "final update" a loving in-joke amo🦩ng the community. The game's creators have embraced the meme, and that's not stopping in 2025.
"We are back to work tomorrow and I’ve 🔯got one single mission: releasing the final update," lead developer Andrew 'Redigit' Spinks said on yesterday, which I guess means the studio is back to work as I write this. "My game face is on." In response to a fan making the obligatory 'final update' joke, Spinks added that "Terraria will never die as long as there is one last final update."
Terraria's final update meme goes back to the launch of the Journey's End patch in 2020, which was billed as the last big addition to the game. But then the updates just kept coming, occasionally with teasing nam▨es like Journey's Actual End. If my count is correct then the upcoming 1.4.5 p🅺atch would be the sixth final update since the game started getting final updates, and I can't help but suspect it won't actually be the last.
1.4.5 has suffered some dela𒁃ys because the devs keep adding more to it, and confirmed it wouldn't make it out in 2024 because they're "committ🐬ed to being a quality-first studio." That kind ✃of commitment is exactly why the game's fanbase is so devoted.
Dustin Bailey joined the GamesRadar team as a Staff Writer in May 2022, and is currently based in🥂 Missouri. He's been covering games (with occasional dalliances in the worlds of anime and pro wrestling) since 2015, first as a freelancer, then as a news writer at PCGamesN for nearly five years. His love for games was sparked somewhere between Metal Gear Solid 2 and Knights of the Old Republic, and these days you can usually find him splitting his entertainment time between retro gaming, the latest big action-adventure title, or a long haul in American Truck Simulator.
