
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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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.
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All-time low is the lowest price we've recorded for this game since we started tracking it.
Languages: English*, French, German, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish - Latin America, Traditional Chinese, Dutch, Korean*languages with full audio support
Engagement
Hours played at review time, across 48 reviews with recorded playtime.
Reviews
Themes across 48 recent reviews and how positive each mention is. A keyword signal, not full sentiment analysis.
positive critical· bar length = how often the theme comes up
Reviews
A fun if not overly complicated game that I find find interesting to build in even though it takes a lot of time and patience. They do it well in the complicated way you have to build to make it all work. The basics are easy to play but you have to look alot up online to figure out how to do anything, the tutorial is vague. Overall enjoying it once I settle my mindset into massive building and connecting of stuff that takes a while to do and figure out, especially the where to build stuff. It all takes a while but keeps me invested. It is a massive game that seems to make you reengineer everything you build once you get new tech to avoid bloat and optimize everything, sort of a pain, remains to be seen how fun it might be...
This game should not run as terribly as it does.
RTX 3060 Ti (ROG Strix, 3 Lüfter) | 4K Monitor Meine GPU läuft konstant bei 100% Auslastung und ~215W, egal welche Einstellungen ich wähle. Selbst mit Limit auf 50 FPS, reduzierten Details auf Niedrig oder deaktivierten Optionen drehen die Lüfter voll auf - auf Dauer kaum erträglich und dass dauerhaft von Start des Spiel an. So macht das Spielen leider keinen Spaß. Technisch dringend optimierungsbedürftig.
I would never have said "I want 3D Factorio except with less combat and more Minecraft" but it turns out that sure as hell is what I wanted.
macht bock ist wie Satisfactory Grafik Top auf Ultra Gute Story ;-)
was fun to play but they could have said that there will be no further development after 1.0.
I never thought it possible to be bored playing a factory game. The personal drill only does a large cube and there are portions of terrain which are indestructible, but still look like grass & dirt. I don't feel like it's an open world underground so much as a warehouse filled with dirt. A small detail- the hand drill really reminds me of Star Rupture, but you could use that one for much longer before it overheats. I couldn't connect conyeyors with the machines - it uses the mechanic of requiring an arm to move between things . Maybe further in it'll unlock a more efficient system? The placed drills are slow AF too. They have 4 exit bays but don't put out to be useful. For gimmick-sake, tech is unlocked by first building, then placing ugly round energy crates physically in the world, and machines were level-locked to the floor I was on, as they had to be scanned first.
---{Graphics / Grafik}--- ☐ You forget what reality is / Du vergisst, was Realität ist ☑ Beautiful / Wunderschön ☐ Good / Gut ☐ Decent / Solide ☐ Bad / Schlecht ☐ Don't look too long at it / Schau es dir nicht zu lange an ☐ Paint.exe / Paint.exe ---{Optimization / Optimierung}--- ☐ Poorly optimized / Schlecht optimiert ☐ It could have been done better / Hätte besser optimiert werden können ☐ Average / Durchschnittlich ☑ Optimized well / Gut optimiert ☐ Perfectly optimized / Perfekt optimiert ---{Gameplay / Spielspaß}--- ☑ Very good / Sehr gut ☐ Good / Gut ☐ It's just gameplay / Ist eben Gameplay ☐ Mehh / Meh ☐ Staring at walls is better / Gegen Wände starren ist besser ☐ Just don't / Einfach nicht spielen ---{Audio / Sound}--- ☐ Eargasm / Ein Ohrenschmaus ☑ Very good / Sehr gut ☐ Good / Gut ☐ Not too bad / Gar nicht schlecht ☐ Bad / Schlecht ☐ Earrape / Grauenhafter Sound ---{Audience / Zielgruppe}--- ☐ Kids / Kinder ☑ Teens / Jugendliche ☑ Adults / Erwachsene ☐ Human / Menschen ☐ Lizards / Echsenmenschen ---{PC Requirements / PC-Anforderungen}--- ☐ Check if you can run Paint / Prüfe, ob dein PC Paint schafft ☐ Potato / Kartoffel-PC reicht ☑ Decent / Durchschnittlicher PC ☐ Fast / Schneller PC ☐ Rich boiiiiii / Teurer High-End-PC ☐ Ask NASA if they haben einen Ersatz-PC ---{Difficulty / Schwierigkeitsgrad}--- ☐ Just press 'A' / Drück einfach nur „A“ ☐ Easy / Einfach ☑ Significant brain usage / Man muss schon nachdenken ☐ Easy to learn / Hard to master / Leicht zu lernen / Schwer zu meistern ☐ Difficult / Schwierig ☐ Dark Souls / Dark Souls ---{Grind / Grind-Aufwand}--- ☐ Nothing to grind / Kein Grind ☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks / Nur für Ranglisten wichtig ☐ Isn't necessary to progress / Nicht nötig, um voranzukommen ☑ Average grind level / Durchschnittlicher Grind ☐ Too much grind / Zu viel Grind ☐ You'll need a second life for grinding / Du brauchst ein zweites Leben dafür ---{Story / Story}--- ☐ Story? / Story? ☐ Text or Audio floating around / Nur etwas Text oder Audio ☐ Average / Durchschnittlich ☑ Good / Gut ☐ Lovely / Wunderschön ☐ It'll replace your life / Sie wird dein Leben ersetzen ---{Game Time / Spielzeit}--- ☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee / Reicht für einen Kaffee ☐ Short / Kurz ☐ Average / Durchschnittlich ☑ Long / Lang ☐ To infinity and beyond / Bis in alle Ewigkeit ---{Price / Preis}--- ☐ It's free! / Kostenlos! ☑ Worth the price / Den Preis wert ☐ If u have some spare money left / Wenn du etwas Geld übrig hast ☐ Not recommended / Nicht empfehlenswert ☐ You could also just burn your money / Du könntest dein Geld auch verbrennen ---{Bugs / Fehler}--- ☐ Never heard of / Praktisch keine ☑ Minor bugs / Kleinere Bugs ☐ Can get annoying / Können nervig werden ☐ ARK: Survival Evolved / So viele Bugs wie ARK ☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs / Das Spiel ist ein einziges Bug-Terrarium ---{Replayability / Wiederspielwert}--- ☐ Excellent / Hervorragend ☑ Replayable / Gut wiederspielbar ☐ Sometimes / Manchmal ☐ If you try hard enough / Nur wenn du dich bemühst ☐ Absolutely not / Absolut nicht ---{Personal Vote / Persönliche Wertung}--- ☐ 1 ☐ 2 ☐ 3 ☐ 4 ☐ 5 ☐ 6 ☐ 7 ☐ 8 ☑ 9 ☐ 10 ☐ 10+
fun game, addicting asf but gets boring if you arent good
El juego está hecho con las patas
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Engagement
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Audience
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