I had high hopes for this, seemed like one of the better terraria clones with excellent music, and had no problem waiting however long for the finished product. this isn't it. just another alpha/beta kicked out of early access for no reason. well, their reason is money, but they were barely doing anything for 11 (ELEVEN!) years and now it's sold as a 'complete game' with many promises nowhere to be found (see below) and a distinct lack of polish, which I doubt will bring in more sales than before.

at this rate, it might be something to look at in another 5-10 years if the dev sticks around, but leaving early access, especially this arbitrarily, usually means the end of development (which would be perfectly fine if the game was actually finished), despite the usual 'next chapter of the journey' or 'this is just the beginning' ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥.

the only setting in the main menu is for languages and there's text in the corner saying f2 goes full screen. incredibly lazy, but there's plenty of stuff in-game for gfx, audio, rebindable controls, etc. and there's optional autosave, manual save and save & exit. volumes are bugged, turning down sfx still plays them in the main menu.

various difficulty settings from easy to nightmare, a few extra options (higher level monsters, 1hp only, etc.), including 'building' for a monster-free experience, plus optional permadeath. inventory isn't dropped on death, at least on easy, but 15% of collected souls do, no toggle to make it go away. also, the game doesn't pause while the almost full screen inventory is open, another huge dealbreaker, no toggle for it either. not to mention constant crashes (not once but twice on every exit) and a bunch of typos, further signs of no care or attention.

for reference, here's the entirety of the 1.0 changelog. an absolute joke and insult, they couldn't even be bothered to list the bugfixes.

Changelog 1.0.0 - 12 december 2024

Adds:
- Guidance system: uses the completion tree to display objectives and help the player to progress.
The guidance system can be disabled in Game options.
- Option to change the direction only when moving with the keyboard (player is not facing automatically the mouse)

Changes:
- Quests and dialogs with the crystal have been removed and replaced by the guidance system
- Worm transformation is always visible

Various bugs fixed

and as another reference, a snippet from the now removed early access info just before 1.0 hit, because it's a full game now, ready to roll, even though the list of missing stuff is longer than what's in the game currently.

How is the full version planned to differ from the Early Access version?
Here is the list of the features that we still need to implement:

Themed dungeons | Biomes: post-hell | Biomes: sky | Technology | Vehicles & Mechs
Grapple hook / ninja rope | Modding compatibility | God Saucer (minigames area)
Tower of 100 challenges | Themed parallel dimensions | Fluid dynamics
Biomes: oceans | Fishing | Programmable robots | Wiring | Pipes | Thunder
Fire (buildings can catch on fire etc.) | Achievements / Game encyclopedia / Compendium
Temperature | Gas dynamics | Dynamic buildings (build your ship)

yay! 1.0 finally here after all these years, time to reinstall and play the hell outta the completed game!
eagerly dive into the change notes, excited to see all the updates and additions... and am immediately done because the only change is making the tutorial functional.
so much for complete, devs calling it 1.0 because they're done, not because the game is

don't waste your time or your money on the devs last ditch effort to squeeze out a few bucks before completely abandoning this

Releasing the 1.0 version of a game is to say "yes, all the features and functionality for the base game have been completed and implemented". Nowadays, there is of course the potential for extra features to be added later via updates, but the point of a 1.0 version is for all purposes, a finished game the way it was intended.

Not the case here. This game is being pushed to version 1.0 missing many features intended for the base game. This is being done for the sake of "increasing sales". The developer said so. The developer has stated that the missing features are planned to be implemented eventually. Even if this is the case, pushing an unfinished game to version 1.0 and out of early access like this is just plain wrong, no exceptions.

Has... had potential, but left early access as incomplete/unpolished/buggy 1.0 release with all its cons.

+ Terraria-like
+ Music

- Bugs
- Unfinished
- Unpolished
- Lack of ingame-info, tooltips are very generic
- The tutorial system (aka quests) feels: a) stupid (lots of work for nothing) b) useless (not informative, unhelpful most of time)
- The action bar is weird with that switching/exchanging to have both mouse buttons assigned
- Lack of hotkeys (e.g. 4 hotkeys for left/right skills)
- The progression is poorly balanced, I could find bronze hammer needed to upgrade anvil to craft bronze items while already got iron and steel one
- The variety of enemy buffs is ridiculous, the easy enemy suddenly become OP with health regen or some nasty periodically cast spells

Can't tell a single thing about this game what makes it outstanding compared to other Terraria-like games.

Avoid, even on discount. The game is boring.

P.S.: another wasted early access tittle..

If you like Starbound and Terraria, give this a shot. Lovely game, and the devs are very responsive (Quite literally spoke to one, or two).

Planet Centauri is a great game for those who like to grind for powerful items. Centauri offers the player various ways of fighting from swords, hammers, bows, boomerangs, and magic alongside offering monster taming and monster transformations as further ways to express oneself in it's combat system. Various armor classes can be chosen and upgraded into the endgame to offer additional customization to how you play. The game bases itself around a tier system from 1-7 with tier 7 items and monsters having greater potential while being much harder to obtain. Further customization can be obtained through runes and manipulable built in effects found on gear and weapons. It can take a lot of effort and patience to grind for the best items or encounter legendary monsters but when you get them their pay off feels very satisfying. Beyond combat, the game offers many technical systems such as cog based machinery, monster breeding, and it's own unique system of magitech, devices powered by the souls you gather from defeating enemies. The game offers a large variety of building materials and many collectibles to gather along the way giving you much to do during your adventure, but is open enough to give players the freedom to explore at their own pace. I definitely recommend giving it a try and seeing just how powerful you can become

quality game great peacefull ambient and spooky music, fun interactions and goes far further then u think it might if u keep on playing, doesnt feel rushed or grindy but can be super hard if u so choose it to be, fast loading supreme quality sprite graphics; theres not a single pocket of fun uncapped ora single immersion breaker revealed, its god wild jukes and mild comedy all in all 10 out of 10

Well... there isnt much i can say about this game besides the fact that its not a finished product despite the fancy 1.0 that was stickered on it a while back (without really changing much with said 1.0 release). The combat is fine, but its more often than not just ends up being jank, The "class system" in the form of different armor sets makes progression feel pointless because the next tier armor you had to waste a lot of time in can just end up being too uncomfortable to use and not that much better in terms of stats, and magic system feels complicated and useless because most modifiers just end up being a burden on your mana supply for a mediocre effect that mostly just hurt your aim instead of giving benefits while ALSO costing you the grind time. At the very end its essentially just a version 0.14.4, disguised as a full release so that the dev could potentially abandon the game in the future when they completely burn out from developing this overly ambitious mixture of loosely connected features that host this dry youtube video "i remade terraria in a month" type game. Am i being too harsh? Maybe. But then again, said terraria costs just a little bit more and gets constant support from the devs, even starbound that was abandoned already has more content and mod support in case you want to make it feel complete.

It doesn't quite reach the heights of Terraria or Starbound... but its still pretty good for what it is. Also, much Like Terraria, it has been getting consistent updates... so that's a big plus.

My favorite part of this game so far is that you use several different attacks with melee weapons instead of just swinging it, haven't seen it anywhere else(yet). But anyways good game :)