A closer look

Congratulations on spending twenty hours crafting the ultimate sword of the gods, now please enjoy being instantly obliterated by a flying purple eyeball. Sandbox games usually suffer from endgame stagnation where the player becomes untouchable. By completely overhauling the world's difficulty and injecting a secondary tier system entirely in "Hardmode," the game forces you to re-experience the desperate, terrified scrambling of day one all over again.