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No Pun Included's unfinished Terraria review approaches a million

The May review explains why the team stopped playing, and why they felt there was enough to judge.

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We Could Not Finish Terraria: The Board Game

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2:20Terraria becomes a cooperative deck-builder with player and enemy phases and an expanding map.
6:40The host distinguishes criticism of the game's design from personal attacks on its developers.
14:58He argues that reward cards bloat decks, contrasting Terraria with Slay the Spire: The Board Game.
24:19He argues that rolling more dice reduces uncertainty and makes later combat too easy.
26:06The group stopped after nine hours total, including seven hours of active gameplay, without finishing.
30:13He explains why further play would not change his assessment of the underlying systems.

Quitting a board game is not usually the start of a channel's most-watched review. For No Pun Included, it has become exactly that: "We Could Not Finish Terraria: The Board Game" is now closing in on a million views, months after its May release.

Elaine and Efka posted nothing new this week, but that unusually frank title remains the archive's main draw. The review is adding around 5,500 views a day, far more than the channel's other currently busy uploads.

The substance goes beyond simply declaring the game too long. The host picks apart a cooperative deck-builder whose mining, crafting and sprawling map try to carry Terraria's video-game systems onto the table. He argues that rewards clog the deck, early combat is punishing and later encounters lose tension. At 26:06 comes the explanation behind the title: the group stopped after nine hours in total, including seven of active play.

He also makes a distinction worth keeping alongside the criticism: objections to design decisions are not attacks on the people who made them. Later, he directly addresses whether an unfinished game can fairly be reviewed.

The channel's subscriber total stayed unchanged over the week, while daily views are modestly above their usual level. Elsewhere in tabletop, Shut Up & Sit Down is having a much sharper viewing upswing. Back at No Pun Included, "Endeavor: Deep Sea and the Turn One Trap" and the expansive "Why is Arcs Like That?" supply smaller, continuing streams of interest alongside Terraria.

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