
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
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
Could have been a really good game if it wasnt abandoned by the devs DO NOT BUY Unless you dont mind no support or further content
The Early Access version was better than "v1.0"... (It was originally supposed to be v0.6) They divided the formerly open world into many small areas. It seems as if they simply removed the Early Access label from the store page and abandoned the game.
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For scale, across Steam · Top Sellers · Brazil over the last 30 days: the 23 chart moves that followed a price cut of more than 20% went a median of 14 places towards #1, and the 2,420 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.
positive critical· bar length = how often the theme comes up
After 12 hours of non stop playing with a duo (Whomst gifted me the game) This is what I've concluded so far Pros: The Beginning pacing is decent. It doesnt feel too rushed to me, and not too slow either. It pushes you to go back and rework your factories and rethink your plans to make things efficent, and use overflow and other means to craft the next component to progress. Early automation feels Extremely Satisfying. Everything is pretty straight forward and explained if you actually pay attention to the Dialogue, which thankfully there is a log book you can go back and read how to do certain things if you overlooked it the first time. The way the machines/Conveyers/Inserters works is great. Overall had a blast so far and its kept me active the entire time while playing it, working my brain to "Min-max" which I think is key to factory games. Cons: The placement of the research orbs is a weird concept to me. Let me craft and use/redeem them instead of having a bunch of items with animation hogging a random spot on the map. Not a huge issue just a strange concept to me. The Hud is horrendous in my opinion. Its very large with no way to scale it down, and as useful as it is, the Q to hide toolbar, along with the multiple toolbars is a very weird concept to get ahold of and it still drives me nuts from time to time. Overall I think this game gets over hated on for no reason. I've had a genuinely good time on it. Ive felt no lack of progression, No "Forced overflow management" Or "Unfinished" game vibes from it. Could it use polishing? Absolutley, as with most games that are on the market. Is it a Bad game? Not at all. Recommend picking it up, especially on sale. Game has a good mixed vibe feel of Subnautica, Satisfactory, with a tiny hint of Factorio.
Schade das Game war im Early Access Mega gut hat echt spass gemacht aber jetzt da 1.0 Rauskam und die Entwickler das Game nichtmal kommplett Fertig gestellt haben ist es nur noch Schmutz der Multiplayer funktioniert garnicht man kann nichtmal Freunde einladen da der Button dafür nicht da ist und die performance ist Absolut Grausam geworden Schade sollte es nochmal einen Fix geben was ich nicht glaube da das Game anscheind aufgegeben und begraben wurde werde ich meine Rezension Ändern R.I.P Techtonica
Before i go into where the devs went, I got this game 90% of for £3.99 and its definailty worth that atleast. Anyone seen star rupture? , I think i know where the devs went 🤣 basically using half of the systems + the dialog is very similar. foundation/blueprint building is the same. transport system is basically the monorail. the first gun is the laser tag. I only watch 10 minutes of a video and saw all these similarities. The game looks awesome though and the premise is unique so definatily going to give it a go.
[h1]Final Verdict: [b]58/100[/b][/h1] [b]Poor: 0-74 (0-74%)[/b] Performance or gameplay falls significantly below the passing mark. Requires substantial improvement and may have critical flaws or issues. Not Recommended - ✘ [h2]Player Opinion Steam Review[/h2] [b]Gameplay Experience (14/25)[/b] [i]Intuitive Controls - Easy to use.[/i] ☐ Very Difficult (+1) ☑ Difficult (+2) ☐ Moderate (+3) ☐ Easy (+4) ☐ Very Easy (+5) [i]Balanced Gameplay - Fair and equal.[/i] ☐ Poorly Balanced (+1) ☐ Somewhat Balanced (+2) ☐ Moderately Balanced (+3) ☑ Well Balanced (+4) ☐ Perfectly Balanced (+5) [i]Player Engagement - Involving and captivating.[/i] ☐ Not at all (+1) ☐ Slightly (+2) ☑ Moderately (+3) ☐ Very (+4) ☐ Extremely (+5) [i]Decision Relevance - Meaningful choices.[/i] ☑ Meaningless (+1) ☐ Not Meaningful (+2) ☐ Somewhat Meaningful (+3) ☐ Quite Meaningful (+4) ☐ Highly Meaningful (+5) [i]Rewarding Progression - Satisfying advancement.[/i] ☐ Very Unsatisfying (+1) ☐ Unsatisfying (+2) ☐ Neutral (+3) ☑ Satisfying (+4) ☐ Very Satisfying (+5) [b]Presentation & Immersion (14/25)[/b] [i]Compelling Storyline - Engaging narrative.[/i] ☐ Not Interesting (+1) ☐ Slightly Interesting (+2) ☑ Moderately Interesting (+3) ☐ Very Interesting (+4) ☐ Extremely Interesting (+5) [i]Immersive Atmosphere - Captivating environment.[/i] ☐ Not Immersive (+1) ☐ Slightly Immersive(+2) ☑ Moderately Immersive (+3) ☐ Very Immersive (+4) ☐ Completely Immersive (+5) [i]Visual Aesthetics - Stunning graphics.[/i] ☐ Not Appealing (+1) ☐ Slightly Appealing (+2) ☑ Moderately Appealing (+3) ☐ Very Appealing (+4) ☐ Extremely Appealing (+5) [i]Audio Quality - High-quality sound.[/i] ☐ Not Engaging (+1) ☐ Slightly Engaging (+2) ☑ Moderately Engaging (+3) ☐ Very Engaging (+4) ☐ Extremely Engaging (+5) [i]Polished HUD - Clean and functional interface.[/i] ☐ Very Unfriendly (+1) ☑ Unfriendly (+2) ☐ Neutral (+3) ☐ Friendly (+4) ☐ Very Friendly (+5) [b]Design & Technical Aspects (13/25)[/b] [i]Game Design - Well-crafted mechanics.[/i] ☐ Poorly Designed (+1) ☐ Somewhat Designed (+2) ☑ Moderately Designed (+3) ☐ Well Designed (+4) ☐ Excellently Designed (+5) [i]Content Quality - Rich and diverse.[/i] ☐ Poor Content (+1) ☐ Limited Content (+2) ☐ Moderate Content (+3) ☑ Extensive Content (+4) ☐ Abundant Content (+5) [i]AI Behavior - Intelligent and realistic.[/i] ☐ Very Poor (+1) ☐ Poor (+2) ☑ Average (+3) ☐ Good (+4) ☐ Excellent (+5) [i]Settings - Flexible and customizable.[/i] ☐ Very Limited (+1) ☑ Limited (+2) ☐ Moderate (+3) ☐ Flexible (+4) ☐ Highly Flexible (+5) [i]Technical Issues - Minimal or no problems.[/i] ☑ Numerous (+1) ☐ Moderate (+2) ☐ Limited (+3) ☐ Minor (+4) ☐ None (+5) [b]Final Considerations (17/25)[/b] [i]Overall Satisfaction - General enjoyment level.[/i] ☐ Very Dissatisfied (+1) ☐ Dissatisfied (+2) ☑ Neutral (+3) ☐ Satisfied (+4) ☐ Very Satisfied (+5) [i]Microtransactions - In-game purchases.[/i] ☐ Extensive (+1) ☐ Substantial (+2) ☐ Moderate (+3) ☐ Minimal (+4) ☑ None (+5) [i]Replay Value - Longevity and replayability.[/i] ☐ Very Low (+1) ☑ Low (+2) ☐ Moderate (+3) ☐ High (+4) ☐ Very High (+5) [i]Cost-to-Play Ratio - Money spent vs hours played.[/i] ☐ Overpriced (+1) ☑ Poor Value (+2) ☐ Fair Value (+3) ☐ Good Value (+4) ☐ Excellent Value (+5) [i]Recommendation.[/i] ☐ No (+0) ☑ Yes (+5) [h2]Generate your review at https://playeropinion.com[/h2]
TECHTONICA приятно удивила атмосферой и ощущением уюта. Это редкий пример фабричной игры, которая не торопит и не давит, а позволяет спокойно думать, исследовать и строить в своём темпе. Очень понравилось, что мир здесь — не препятствие, а материал. Возможность формировать ландшафт под себя, делать ровные тоннели, выравнивать пространство и при необходимости восстанавливать его обратно даёт сильное чувство контроля и продуманности. Здесь не борешься с окружением, а проектируешь его. Многие решения сделаны ненавязчиво, но очень грамотно: строительство длинных участков без лишних ограничений, удобный массовый снос, электричество через фундамент — всё это сильно повышает комфорт и позволяет сосредоточиться на процессе, а не на борьбе с интерфейсом. Отдельное спасибо за музыку и общее звуковое оформление — они идеально поддерживают атмосферу тихого подземного мира и делают игру по-настоящему уютной. Это не про спешку и оптимизацию любой ценой, а про пространство, ритм и ощущение «места». Спасибо разработчикам за этот опыт
this game has no obsticles besides wait time. no action.
Great Game, Terrible Endgame I haven’t played the old version, so I can’t comment on that. The game runs mostly smooth, there are occasional lags and some bugs, but nothing that seriously brakes anything. I’m giving it a positive rating because I enjoyed most of the game. The biggest drawbacks are: Abandonware: No updates, never will. Endgame mechanics: Probably some of the worst I’ve ever seen, literally pumping an ocean dry. It really drags down with stretching over 100 hours of waiting till the "thing" is done just to do it again for like 5 times or so. The story is okay not amazing, not bad, just middle-of-the-road. A fun game overall, but the endgame is extremely disappointing.
amazingly addictive!
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