Terraria is one of the highest-rated games on Steam with 98% positive reviews: It was the first game on Steam to receive 1 million reviews while being rated so positively. A small YouTuber sees himself as the “best player in the world” in Terraria and is going all in.
What is Terraria?
- Terraria is an anomaly on Steam. The game costs less than €10 and is incredibly good and popular.
- One could describe Terraria as a kind of “2D Minecraft”; it is an action-adventure sandbox game. The player builds, fights, and crafts through a procedurally generated world.
- Terraria is a special game: The mind behind the game had a confrontation with Google in 2021 out of anger and won.
Impossible run drives the growth of a YouTube channel like crazy
What does the YouTuber do? The YouTuber “Wild Lmao” specializes in Terraria and sees himself as “probably the best player of the game”.
He started a “Hardcore, Master Mode Run” with a mod that lets 30 times more enemies spawn in the game than normally.
Since November 2023, he has been working on a series where he plays Terraria against 30 times more enemies that also have 3 times more hit points and deal 3 times more damage than usual. Additionally, this is all still in Hardcore mode: deaths are therefore permanent.
How is it going for him? As can be seen on SocialBlade , the YouTuber’s views have exploded since November 2023.
The channel was created back in January 2019, but struggled to achieve any growth for a long time.
Just a year ago, in May 2023, he had about 5,000 views per month; now it’s almost 1 million (December 2023) and the number is rising sharply.
In January 2024 alone, he set a new record for subscribers and significantly grew his channel. More than half of his nearly 50,000 subscribers came in the last 3 months since he has been running the series.
His latest video achieved 242,000 views in about 2 weeks, and he receives many enthusiastic comments. Besides the gaming skills of the YouTuber, his humor and entertaining style are especially praised.
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