
Techtonica is a first-person factory automation game with a gripping mystery about mining your way out from the depths of an alien planet. Explore bioluminescent caves, mold destructible terrain, construct a massive subterranean factory. Dig your way toward answers & discover the secrets of Calyx.
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Every market we collect.
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Every price cut of more than 20% we have observed, in each market that quoted one, with this game's chart position on either side of it. These are episodes, not a model: a sale is one event, and one event cannot tell you what the next one will do.
Reviews, worldwide (the counter carries no country): 0.71/day in the week to Aug 20 → 0.43/day in the week after.
About
Welcome to the strangely beautiful, bioluminescent, and mysterious sub-surface alien world of Techtonica. You’ll begin with only the basics for digging, mining, and resource production.
Full Story Campaign
‘Techtonica’ is the only factory automation game to offer a complete, fully voice-acted campaign to play through. Something unknown awaits you beneath the surface of Calyx, Groundbreaker. Untangle and revive the efforts of an expedition gone wrong with the help of cubic companions who have motives, personalities, and secrets of their own.
Build Machines
Discovering everything in Techtonica demands unique equipment, power, and resources. Build specialized machines to optimize gathering and production as you arm yourself with the tools needed to dig higher to the surface.
Explore & Discover
Exploration pays off in Techtonica. Tunnel your way to massive ore deposits, research-rich facilities, and hidden caves to find new technologies, scan aging artifacts, and learn more about the mysteries of this world.
Terraform Entire Caves
Obliterate stone walls with a black hole gun. Drain deserts of sand with towering pumps to uncover what lies beneath. Sculpt the world to fit your subterranean vision.
Create Beautiful, Sprawling Factories
Take your mining operation to new depths by constructing sprawling, efficient factories. Automate production lines with Conveyor Belts and Inserters and a wide cast of machines. Deck out your factory with Eco-Brutalist Base Building parts.
SCI-FI MYSTERY. A genre-first, unravel the mysteries that lie beneath the surface of the rogue planet Calyx.
FACTORY AUTOMATION. Conveyor belts and unique travel systems make sprawling, automated factories easier to build, connect, and traverse.
BEAUTIFUL WORLD. Explore the cavernous depths of Techtonica surrounded by bioluminescent flora in first-person.
REWARDING UPGRADES. Start small and get massive with gameplay systems that continually evolve with new challenges and solutions.
DIG ANYWHERE. Carve out the perfect home for your machines using the MOLE, a black hole gun.
AURAL NIRVANA. Techtonica arrives with a build-inspiring original soundtrack from Cityfires (20XX, Catlateral Damage: Remeowstered).
CO-OP. Techtonica is entirely playable alone or with up to four-player co-op.
Add-ons
Each DLC is estimated with the same model as a game, then summed — a modeled figure, not reported DLC sales.
Sums Steam only; PlayStation publishes no volume signal, so the true total is higher by an unknown amount.
| Store | Price | Audience | Score | Chart | Est. revenue |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
SteamYou are here | $29.99 | 3.3Kreviews | 65% | — | $3.8M |
| $7.49−75% | 663ratings | 86% | — | not modelled |
Matched by title — a reused name can pair the wrong games. * is a critic aggregate. Prices and positions are each store's United States storefront; Epic charts worldwide. Audience and Score too, except Steam's, which is worldwide.
Updates
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Engagement
Reviews
Themes across 832 recent reviews and how positive each mention is. A keyword signal, not full sentiment analysis.
Reviews
Overall a fantastic game. I completed the story for the most part save for the final floor. Think of it as a mix of Satisfactory and Factorio. Fist person like Satisfactory. Conveyor belt system like Factorio. Please note, it does seem like the game is abandoned by the devs, doing some online research, it seems they spent a lot of time on worthless additions such as laser tag and the "elevator system" essentially squandering what money they had. It is a bit disappointing that its not even on life support, has great potential IMO. Also odd that its still on Steam even though abandoned. If you like factory games, and this happens to be on sale, I'd say go for it.
Better games out there than this one. Try Factorio or Satisfactory
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For scale, across Steam · Top Sellers · Brazil over the last 30 days: the 24 chart moves that followed a price cut of more than 20% went a median of 9 places towards #1, and the 2,404 moves with no price cut behind them went 2 away. One store, one chart, one country — it is the only place we have enough observations to say even that.
Prices outside the United States have been collected since 6 August 2026 and chart positions since 19 July 2026, so a cut older than that has no market to compare and a market that joined later has no history yet. Nothing here is converted between currencies.
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Languages: English*, French, German, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish - Latin America, Traditional Chinese, Dutch, Korean*languages with full audio support
Hours played at review time, across 832 reviews with recorded playtime.
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So...it doesn't work. Yeah tried several times to get the game to run and yeah - it's a no go on this one. Don't remember what I paid, but whatever it was, it certainly wasn't worth it - at all... Tried to return the game, however I guess I waited too long from the time I bought it to the time I actually found time to play it.
After 100 hours, it is with a heavy heart that I am putting this one on the shelf with little expectation of picking it up again. I really loved the concept and the story. The biomes are gorgeous and I do think the game gets more flack than it deserves. That said, the game is horribly bugridden, lacks a ton of quality of life features that modern automation games of comparable scale have, and just generally feels half baked. If you like playing early access games you will love this and it will entertain you for dozens of hours. If you like playing polished factory automation games, I hope this one has gotten updates since 1.0 because as of the time of writing it is just not quite that. If the developers do decide to give this one some polish, maybe a 1.1 or DLC release, I would be so ready to play more and explore new biomes or even just redesign my factories with some fixes to the existing machines. I feel a deep sadness for what this game could have been, and I can only imagine what the people who supported it from the beginning feel for this title. Great concept, good story, somewhat questionable game. I hope there is more to come.
Из плюсов: - Шикарный иструментарий строительства, пожалуй лучший в жанре (из того, что я видел); - Приятный визуал и саундтрек; Из минусов: - Куча мелких багов, которые под конец игры просто бесят; - Таймволл под конец игры, тупеёшее решение которое я видел; - Отдельно хочется упомянуть чела, который тут с цифрами работал он вообще "особенный". В целом игра в начале и середине мне нравилась, я хотел посоветовать её всем для ознакомления, но ближе к концу свалилась в полое уныние и аппатию. Кое как домучил до конца, если вы попробовали всех представителей жанра, то потрогать это можно. В противном случае попробуйте что-то другое. -
Чем дальше буришь, тем больше сомнений - а надо оно тебе, в чём смысл жизни и бурения. После определённого этажа - с каждым новым всё скучнее, однообразнее и бесмысленнее. Последние этажи - просто издевательство.
Der E.A. war Deutlich besser als das Endprodukt. ES frisst förmlich meinem Rechner auf obwohl es keine deutlich hohen grafischen Ansprüche hat. Intel i7 Nvidia 4070. und die Kiste kocht glaub man nicht. zumal keine Updates mehr kommen Hauptsache 1.0 drunter und Geld machen. Keine Kaufempfehlung
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CAUTION: DO NOT BUY! The devs have abandoned this game and have confirmed that no additional development will take place. Apparently they made a last-minute change to the game that completely changed how the game functions, people hated it, then the devs quit. Avoid this one at all cost!
I did enjoy the game. I had been with them near the start of EA. It went from one large map to the levels which in some way is part of what I asked for. I had hope to use the elevator to change levels and have my base on 1st level. Now it is base on level 1 then level 2 for most of the works. The last 4 levels where we have to deal with the sand return is annoying. Almost to the point of not wanted to complete the game. While I only have 165 hour in the game. Is due to basically. I play all the way to the end before the upgrade at 0.6 and as I was getting ready to run another run they move it to 1.0. Sadly they claimed it was done. It had a lot more that could have been added to it. I will probable go back and play again in a year or so. I would suggest buy it on sale. Since the game dev have gone out of business.
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