Andrew Spinks, creator of Terraria and CEO of Re-Logic, will give you your money back if you "personally" beat Terraria's creators in PvP. Oh, and "no questions asked."

Spinks, who goes by the handle Redigit, says players who want their $10 back have this option:

"We are happy to announce that Re-Logic has a new refund policy. You can now refund Terraria for any reason, no questions asked," Spinks writes (first spotted by GamesRadar+). 'All you have to do is personally beat me in PVP.'

Taking on someone who has been creating and playing the game for decades doesn't sound particularly easy, but sure enough, popular Terraria YouTuber Chippy quickly proved this to be the case. Shortly after Spinks' suggestion, Chippy posted the following video, lamenting that it was "harder than I thought it would be." The video shows Chippy being beaten to perfection in a 1vs1 game with Spinks.

The stakes are high. Spinks says at the beginning of the match, "We're jousting, and the winner gets to be the new CEO of Re-Logic," and he immediately wins the match and retains his position. There is no mention of whether there is a penalty for the loser: Terraria is pretty bad at it, but if she and Spinks go at it a hundred times, she'll probably win. Probably.

Ted Murphy, Re-Logic's head of operations, told PC Gamer that it has become "a bit of a tradition" for ChippyGaming to challenge Redigit for the CEO title during test sessions. He said, "There have been jousting matches, challenges using only certain weapons, and not once has Chippy ever dethroned the king."

Murphy explained that Spinks' tweet was the result of the team looking over Terraria's recent refund requests and Steam reviews. 'We like to read both on a regular basis to see what issues players may be facing. It's a great way to find gameplay elements that need tweaking or bugs that need to be fixed. Many of the negative reviews are "fake" negative reviews and/or the reasons given are so wildly random (hundreds of hours of people just leaving rants about anglers, cave bats, etc.) that the team had a good laugh at many of them. The sarcastic tweets were the result of "these two humors coming together."

Frankly, it's hard to imagine anyone actually wanting to refund Terraria at this point. It's been many, many years since I last played it, and it always seemed to be a great game, and one that the developers couldn't leave alone in a good way; in 2022, Spinks said that Terraria's next big update would definitely, without a doubt, be its last. Things didn't turn out that way, however, and the developer declared 2023 "the year of cross-play for Terraria," with various community members obsessed with doing mind-boggling things like building a computer in the game and playing Pong on it.

"Why on earth would you want to refund Terraria?" a player called Shadow asks Spinks, to which the reply is simple:

"Because I can buy Terraria again."