
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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Each in the currency that store quoted — not converted: the gap between two rows is the publisher's pricing, not an exchange rate.
Every market we collect.
Discounts
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
Build ids and update times come straight from Steam's PICS — the same source SteamDB reads. Patch history grows as we record new builds.
Engagement
Reviews
Themes across 833 recent reviews and how positive each mention is. A keyword signal, not full sentiment analysis.
Reviews
elevator might be the worst thing ever. worst game ever
During EA, I'd have fully recommended Techtonica as an interesting and unique addition to the factorio-like - the addition of a story with its own mysteries to uncover giving new incentives to expand and improve your factory than the usual "reach the next tier and expand" and the vast open world while often confusing and initially hard to navigate gave a real sense of the expanse of exploring a whole new planet. The 1.0 release, the big map is now chopped up into smal pieces gated behind a time sink which is for me a bit to big change between EA and release i excpect core mechanics to remain similair. And the game is appearantly abandoned directly after 1.0 release, no more patch, fixes, no nothing. Release notes contained a long list with known issues....
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For scale, across Steam · Top Sellers · Brazil over the last 30 days: the 22 chart moves that followed a price cut of more than 20% went a median of 9 places towards #1, and the 2,513 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.
Genres
Stats
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
Hours played at review time, across 833 reviews with recorded playtime.
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сначала мне не нравился лифт но потом через много дней я понял что это по истине новый опыт и прикольная усложнёная логистика
The storyline is excellent and the building is a lot of fun!
Steam I just wanted to recommend this game to players. I didn't want to add a written essay about the flippin thing. AND I can't even add emojis. (Insert facepalm emoji here)
Positiv hervorzuheben ist die Story, die Weltgestaltung und die Vielfalt der Möglichkeiten. Ich hätte mir jedoch genauere Anweisungen gewünscht, da aus den Quests nicht immer ersichtlich ist, wie ich mein Ziel erreichen kann. Für erfahrene Spieler sehr gut, für Einsteiger schnell überfordernd und frustrierend.
Trust me. Don't bother. There is a reason this game is abandonware.
Alors le jeu est vraiment cool je l'ai fait avec un pote on s'est bien amusé MAIS au bout d'un moment les problèmes de performances et les désynchro au niveau des étages de sable c'est juste horrible on a essayé de forcer avec les freezes et les 8 fps. Mais quand on a vu l'objectif final... on s'est dit c'est juste pas possible on voulait vraiment finir le jeu mais les performances en fin de jeu sont trop lamentable j'aurais bien mis un pouce recommandé pour les heures passées dessus mais ne pas pouvoir finir le jeu c'est non.
automatizacion godddddddddddddddddddd
This is a hidden gem with a few flaws. This honestly feels like a Russian made Satisfactory, some of the interface is wonky and the elevator really can be confusing because you are supposed to be digging UP but the elevator levels are labeled top to bottom not bottom to top leading to confusion. The game still is great with a wonderful story line however there are some optimization issues that lead to my co-op partner not being able to finish the game. There are many time gates that force you to just sit around twiddling your thumbs, the inserter machines can be a real PITA to learn how to use and anything relying on planters is a slow boggy mess, Th crushers are broken for energy production forcing you to makes HUNDREDS of manual crank generators for late game. DO NOT LEAVE THE GAME RUNNING IT WILL SCREW UP YOUR SAVE FILE AND BRICK IT.
Active players
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Players by region
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Players also reviewed
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