Techtonica

Enjoyed the game when it was in early development and one big world. Later release that split the game up into regions made it more awkward. And with the 1.0 release, it's officially abandoned. Yet another lesson learned getting early access games.

I thought I couldn’t lose much. It was six bucks. Well, I lost a lot of time. I kept waiting for that “finally, automation” moment you get in Factorio when power clicks, or in Satisfactory when coal power makes your factory self-sufficient for the first time.”. It never came. Instead I spent 35 hours miserable, clearing terrain over and over, because the recipes don’t land on sane ratios and the pacing feels unbalanced. The farming is the worst part: it forces overflow management immediately because you need plant outputs for fuel, but the game gives you none of the basic tools to handle it cleanly, like priority or overflow splitters. So you’re stuck doing janky workarounds instead of building. If you like busywork and constant friction, maybe. If you want a factory game that respects your time, skip it.

It's a good game and interesting story that really needed more QoL and performance updates than it got. Especially performance. By the end of the game I had ~10-20fps, whereas I can run something like Satisfactory at 60 fps. It would also save everyone so much time to have a blueprint system in place, and the copy/paste stuff they have is super buggy. Given that the performance by the end of the game is just awful, I really can't recommend this game to anyone but the most stubborn gamers...I really wanted to 100% this game, and eventually I did, but it was such a slog. The story is good, and that kept me interested, so, there's that.

A real shame, was a great game in the making, huge open map, decent story, interesting road map of future plans, then bam they go full release and change how the whole game works, get negative feed back in the discord, put out on console and it appears to have closed shop. it breaks my heart, i rarely leave a review of a game, and even rarer a bad one, but it feels like a betrayal and in the end a money grab and run. at least they could do was revert it back to open world with many maps and open up the code for modders to turn it back into a great game.

This game is super similar to satisfactory. I enjoyed the new challenges with managing the transfer of different items using the inserter system. It felt a little rough around the edges when it comes to the math and i did not like that the resource nodes are finite. meaning, you can and will run out of them over time. i'm very sad to find that the studio has shut down and no further updates will occur.

Performance is abysmal. I'm a new player so I can't say I have the same complaints regarding the changes that a lot of other people have. But the performance alone is enough to justify a negative review.

game is abandoned by the Devs , not finished barely playable