
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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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 832 recent reviews and how positive each mention is. A keyword signal, not full sentiment analysis.
Reviews
Pas intéressant. Abandonné faute de financements, ce jeu est à moitié fini, il y a bien quelques aspects intéressants, et de bonnes idées, mais rien n'est vraiment poussé. Depuis la 1.0 rushée, plus aucune nouvelles. Cherchez un jeu qui vous respecte un peu plus que celui ci. Vous pourriez apprécier le début, mais attention à la déception, une fois passées les premières heures.
The game is a lot of fun for the first 4/5 of story. It has interesting lore, and quite a few unique ideas. At a certain point however, the story and gameplay go down quick. Despite those drawbacks, i would still advise you to play it. Maybe quit when it gets too sandy, but the time before that is an absolute marvel.
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For scale, across Steam · Top Sellers · Brazil over the last 30 days: the 26 chart moves that followed a price cut of more than 20% went a median of 7 places towards #1, and the 2,402 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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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 832 reviews with recorded playtime.
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*informative review FP building + dig dig - graphic optimization = Setup a sprawling automatic factory on a alien planet. Explore caves and areas to mine, gather and build various materials. Dig everywhere and anywhere. [h1][url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/35180752-3-point-play/] Follow our curator for similar games [/url][/h1]
ive been excited to play this game for a while. slowly checking back to it over the years. i finally decided to give it a try. all in all, its not very balanced. i only got to about mid game, and im already completely over it. the simple fact that they didn't add in a blueprint mechanic is wildly incoherent. the amount of infrastructure you need to build ends up being really really high. i got to a point where i need to expand my efforts onto another floor. the amount of work i need to do is wild. and unbelievably tedious. a simple blueprint mechanic would do this game wonders. placing everything individually is seriously outdated. but, with the devs out of business. the game is what it is. shame, it really had some possibilities. maybe someone will mod blueprints into it.
Loved playing until the factory gets large then the frame rate PLUMMETS!!! I played for hours and hours with a shockingly low frame rate but could not complete :( POOR OPTIMISATION. FYI I have a i9, 32GB ram, 4090 video card!
Тектоника фабрикостроительная игра. Из плюсов сюжет озвученные диалоги. Лор, увлекательный процесс по началу. Начинал играть в раннем доступе и то что было в начале дико зашло. Была Большая локация (навскидку 5на 5км) и огромный простор по высоте. К релизу игра была переработана в Этажи мини локации по площади, но с большой высотностью. Эндгейм контент с локациями которые постоянно засыпает песком по началу кажется увлекатьным, но начиная со 2й локации насосы без видимых причин перестают выдавать мощность, а песок прибывает все быстрее. Пик наступает на 14м этаже когда насосы почти становятся тыквой, а песок сыплет уже тоннами. Песка на голову геймдизайнера. Бесящий эндгейм контент. Не рекомендую к покупке никому, кроме тех кто любит когда о засыпают песком непрерывно
Game was amazing before initial release, but then they rushed it out and dipped. What we got from that was an insulting mess of late game mechanics and it really feels like someone at the studio said "Hey guys, lets just rush this out so we can go home"
If you ask yourself why I don't recommend this game after playing so much well first off most of my play time happens in the early access version of the game, ok now what wrong with the game the developer changed the game in a way nobody wanted added a laser tag mini game no one care about and finally even if the developer said this game is released in 1.0 the game doesn't have a ending and never will the developer abandon the game because the 1.0 didn't sell enough.
This game was developed and released while games like satisfactory and Hydroneer and such were being highlighted by people like "Lets game it out." These developers Grifted off of the desire of players of this genre to have a new game of that nature to dive into and when they got half way through development they decided to throw it to 1.0 and be done with it. Nothing but a cash grab, don't waste your time.
Решил вернуться поиграть в интересную игру. Внезапно обнаружил что мир изменился. Я видел это в воде, чувствовал в земле и вдыхал с воздухом. Лифт не столько поднимал меня выше, сколько опустил мое мнени о игре на уровень отзывов. Как бы вернуть деньги. (
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