Japanese Steam reviews of Terraria: 93.9% positive, with praise focused on gameplay and content
A total of 4,570 Japanese-language reviews on Steam were counted. The share recommending the game sits at 93.9 percent. This sample covers reviews posted between May 2011 and October 2026.
Own research by 648 News. Every figure in this article was counted by us from 4,570 Steam reviews written in Japanese, collected between 2011-05-17 and 2026-10-04.
Overall reception and review volume
Players writing reviews in Japanese have left 4,570 ratings for Terraria. Of those, 4,291 recommend the title and 279 do not. The positive rate stands at 93.9 percent, with a 95 percent confidence interval ranging from 93.2 percent to 94.6 percent. This figure matches the all-time Japanese review score on Steam, which was fetched on 2026-10-08 and shows a 93.9 percent positive rating across 4,573 total reviews. The collected sample was sorted into 4,315 topics.
The numbers
What players recommend
When reviewers recommend Terraria, they most frequently discuss gameplay, combat, and core mechanics. This topic appears in 36.8 percent of classified reviews.
超簡単にこのゲームを説明すれば『2Dドット絵アクション×サンドボックス』。
To explain this game in the simplest terms, it is a 2D pixel art action sandbox.
The second most common praise covers the amount of content, length, and replayability, mentioned in 31.8 percent of classified reviews. Players highlight the sheer volume of bosses, weapons, and biomes.
Terarriaはひとことで言えば「自由度の高い箱庭ゲーム」でスルメのような味わいがあり、突き詰
To put it simply, Terraria is a highly open sandbox game with a chewy, addictive quality.
Price and value for money appear in 6.3 percent of classified reviews. Graphics and art direction are discussed in 5.0 percent of classified reviews. UI, controls, key bindings, and controller support appear in 3.5 percent of classified reviews. Difficulty and balance are noted in 3.1 percent of classified reviews. Performance, optimization, bugs, and crashes are mentioned in 2.9 percent of classified reviews. Online play, multiplayer, and servers are discussed in 2.9 percent of classified reviews. Characters and character design appear in 2.8 percent of classified reviews. Japanese localization and translation quality appears in 1.7 percent of classified reviews. Story, scenario, and writing appear in 1.4 percent of classified reviews. Music, sound, and voice acting are discussed in 0.6 percent of classified reviews. PC port quality and Steam Deck support are discussed in 0.4 percent of classified reviews. Developer or publisher conduct and update policy appear in 0.2 percent of classified reviews. Monetization, gacha, and microtransactions are mentioned in 0.0 percent of classified reviews.
What players criticize
Reviews that do not recommend Terraria focus heavily on technical and control issues. Performance, optimization, bugs, and crashes appear in 28.8 percent of non-recommending reviews. UI, controls, key bindings, and controller support are mentioned in 26.3 percent of non-recommending reviews. Several players point out a persistent bug that prevents key rebinding without restarting the application. Difficulty and balance are noted in 5.1 percent of non-recommending reviews. Online play, multiplayer, and servers are discussed in 5.1 percent of non-recommending reviews. Japanese localization and translation quality appears in 2.9 percent of non-recommending reviews. Story, scenario, and writing appear in 1.8 percent of non-recommending reviews. Characters and character design are mentioned in 1.5 percent of non-recommending reviews. PC port quality and Steam Deck support are discussed in 1.5 percent of non-recommending reviews. Developer or publisher conduct and update policy appear in 0.4 percent of non-recommending reviews. Price, value for money, and DLC pricing appear in 0.4 percent of non-recommending reviews. Graphics, art direction are discussed in 4.7 percent of non-recommending reviews. Gameplay, combat, and core mechanics are mentioned in 37.2 percent of non-recommending reviews. Amount of content, length, and replayability is discussed in 15.3 percent of non-recommending reviews.
Playtime and player profiles
The median playtime behind these Japanese-language reviews is 112.2 hours. The recommending reviews overwhelmingly discuss gameplay, combat, and core mechanics at 36.8 percent of classified reviews. The same topic appears in 37.2 percent of non-recommending reviews. Amount of content, length, and replayability is mentioned in 32.9 percent of recommending reviews but drops to 15.3 percent of non-recommending reviews. Players who dislike the game often feel the content volume does not compensate for early game friction. UI, controls, key bindings, and controller support appear in only 2.0 percent of recommending reviews, but rise to 26.3 percent of non-recommending reviews. Performance, optimization, bugs, and crashes are mentioned in 1.2 percent of recommending reviews, compared to 28.8 percent of non-recommending reviews. Characters and character design are discussed in 2.9 percent of recommending reviews, while only 1.5 percent of non-recommending reviews mention them. Online play, multiplayer, and servers are mentioned in 2.7 percent of recommending reviews and 5.1 percent of non-recommending reviews. The collecting period for this data ran from May 2011 through October 2026.
Methodology and sources
Data
Steam user reviews, retrieved with Steam's public review listing between 2011-05-17 and 2026-10-04: 4,570 written in Japanese. Steam's own all-time totals for Terraria were read on 2026-10-08.
How the reviews were classified
Every review was read by a language model, which rated how positive it is, how much concrete detail it gives, and which of 15 fixed topics it talks about. The counts and percentages in this article were then computed from those labels in ordinary code, not by the model. Automatic classification makes mistakes, so single percentages should be read as approximate. Reviews of fewer than 15 characters were not sent to the model; they count as positive or negative from the reviewer's own recommendation and carry no topic.
Limits
People who write a Steam review in Japanese are not a representative sample of everyone who plays in Japan, and the language of a review does not establish where its author lives. Steam's default filter for off-topic review activity was left on, so periods Steam marked as review bombing are excluded from the counts in this article. Reviews that arrived after the retrieval date are not included.
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