FAQ

Indie and Studio: no. You pay once and keep your version forever, and updates for 12 months are included. Pro has a yearly fee of €1,500 for updates, the Pro toolkit and support.

The full editor, so you can build and test everything. Only the export is switched off, so the trial is for evaluating, not for shipping.

Your version keeps working, for good. Another year of updates costs €399 (Indie), €1,199 (Studio) or €1,500 (Pro). Without it, your project stays on its version at no extra cost.

Indie is for one developer. Studio covers up to 5 seats, adds priority support and is meant for teams and studios. There is no revenue limit: how much your game earns never changes your edition. Choose Pro if you want to change the engine itself or use the command interface and Pro toolkit.

No. There is no revenue share. Your revenue does not affect your edition either: there is no revenue limit.

Yes. The games you create belong to you, and we claim no rights to your content. The license terms will be published before sales start.

Indie is for 1 seat. Studio covers up to 5 seats. A license is tied to its seats, so sharing it beyond them is not allowed.

Pro is the third edition: €4,999 once plus €1,500 per year for updates, the Pro toolkit and support. It gives you the right to change and develop the engine itself, on our foundation, for your own games (the engine may not be passed on), plus the command interface and Pro toolkit (commands, check reports, screenshots, undo, F12, the test suite and working rules). It is unlocked with a Pro license key and includes priority support. There is no revenue share.

Adjustments that are necessary for using the engine, such as fixing a bug, are fine. Rebuilding or further developing the engine is only allowed with the Pro license, whether you do it by hand or with tools.

No refunds after download. Please use the free trial first. As digital content, your 14-day right of withdrawal ends when you expressly agree at checkout that delivery starts immediately and confirm that you lose your right of withdrawal. Without that consent the statutory right applies.

A top-down 2D pixel RPG with free 8-direction movement, tile-based worlds and real-time action combat. Farming, mining, fishing, crafting, house building, dungeons, quests, merchants, companions, weather and day and night are ready to use.

No. The engine is 2D only, and so is every editor.

No. Combat is real-time: swing in an arc, roll, block, parry with counter, hit pause and knockback. If turn-based combat is the heart of your game, another tool will serve you better.

Not today. The view is top-down.

16 px or 32 px, set once per project. Both show 20 by 12.5 tiles on a fixed 640 by 400 pixel play area, and the camera always stays on whole pixels.

Inventory, combat, farming, crafting with recipes and workbenches, fishing, house building, weather, day and night, save system, quests, companions, merchants and currency. The editors sit on top of these runtime systems, which come from a real game.

24, from go to, gather and craft to escort, defend, decision and world fact. Quests are a network of stages and areas.

No. Areas, quests, items, sound and saves are made in the editors. Code stays optional. New mechanics, new systems or new quest step types do need code written in GDScript.

Yes. Scripting is GDScript with a type check, and the architecture is layered. A new editor area is registered in one module file, which can also register commands for the command interface. Extending the editor itself needs the Pro license.

Not yet. The documentation is working documentation written during development, mostly in German, not a polished public manual.

Not yet. A daily what's new feed is planned.

The editor interface is in German today and an English interface is being prepared. Game text supports German and English, and the language list is extendable.

A calm, visual planning board where you lay out a region and its quests together: where things are, what happens there, and why the player moves on. Our separate app at quest-helper.com.

No, it is our separate app at quest-helper.com. With Terra Engine it is included while your updates run. Quest Helper is our planning board for every game developer, as its own app. It works with or without Terra Engine.

Windows, macOS and Linux. Most development and testing so far happened on macOS and Linux, so expect rough edges on Windows first. Detailed hardware requirements will follow.

Windows, macOS, Linux and Web, everything the underlying engine can export. The Steam Deck is the best tested path: a ready preset and a nightly build script exist.

Yes. A ready export preset builds a Steam Deck package, and a size guard warns you when the package outgrows its budget.

Not as a promise. Consoles need third-party porting partners and platform services. Mobile is not part of the offer.

No. All game content is plain JSON, readable and diffable in Git. State is kept per system with its own save section.

Yes. Terra Engine runs on a free, open-source engine under the MIT license, so you do not pay for it separately.

The bundled audio extension (FMOD) has its own license terms, free for smaller projects. Check FMOD's current terms before you release.

Built on Godot. A year of development turned it into a complete tool for pixel RPG makers.

Yes: co-op for up to 5 players, one host plus guests. Players can be in different areas at the same time.

One machine is the host and computes everything that is saved: world, objects, story, quests, enemies, clock and loot. Guests send only the commands of their hero and show what the host sends. Playing alone uses the same path.

Not yet. The host model, the network layer and the tests are done. Steam lobbies and invites are still being added, and a real two-account Steam run is open. Test online co-op yourself before you plan a release around it.

No. Co-op uses a host player. Dedicated servers, matchmaking and anti-cheat are not planned.

The delivery is the editor addon plus a starter project with its own art. The art assets of our game Call Me Human are not included. The screenshots on this site show our own game with its art.

Yes. Bring your own art or use packs you are licensed for. The library of about 9,900 world pieces in our game references art packs that may not be redistributed, so your project uses your own.

Not yet. Animations use the standard 2D animation tools of the underlying engine, and the editors handle places, objects and content.

They show our game Call Me Human with third-party art. The art belongs to its authors and is not part of Terra Engine.

No. The command interface and the Pro toolkit come with the Pro license. Indie and Studio give you the full editor, free content building and export.

Every action of an editor area is also a command. You write a JSON command file, run it from the shell without a window and get a result with a check report and a screenshot. Every change can be undone.

Yes, that is the intended way to extend a project fast. The agent writes a command file, runs it, reads the check report and the screenshot, and undoes the change if needed.

No. Every editor works by hand. The command interface is an addition for people who want to script or automate.

Dungeon, quest, planet, sound (library, assignment, voices), languages, systems, abilities, main quest, chapter book, segments, notes and progression.

Yes. F12 in every editor area sends the current view and state to your agent.