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Techtonica
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.
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-02 · quoted reviews as of 2026-05-13.
What reviewers agree on
43 of the 70 reviews raise this.
“Played it for a while in early 2024 (pre-1.0); it seemed to have real promise, and I looked forward to coming back to it. It had nice visuals and seemed to have a decent storyline. The main thing I liked that kept me…”
“Techtonica Could have been and was a really good factory game the Elevator gimmick was a interesting spin and added some fun logistic puzzles which is what factory games are all about. All the good was buried by later…”
16 of the 70 reviews raise this.
“Played it for a while in early 2024 (pre-1.0); it seemed to have real promise, and I looked forward to coming back to it. It had nice visuals and seemed to have a decent storyline. The main thing I liked that kept me…”
6 of the 70 reviews raise this.
“I'm comparing this to satisfactory, Techtonica has less waiting around. There's always something that has to get done. You can always work for something in this game. The fule system is really great. Your able to spend…”
5 of the 70 reviews raise this.
“mine ore, make tools, parts, machines, mine weirder ores make weird metals, make more complex machines, run belts left right north south east west vertically or horizontally, learn what happened, break quarantine, pump…”
5 of the 70 reviews raise this.
“Played it for a while in early 2024 (pre-1.0); it seemed to have real promise, and I looked forward to coming back to it. It had nice visuals and seemed to have a decent storyline. The main thing I liked that kept me…”
“I'm not a massive factory game fan , but i found this extremely enjoyable. The environment is really beuatiful, all of the animations on the machines are pretty cool, and i like digging holes to make tunnels for my…”
18 of the 70 reviews raise this · 11 of them still recommend the game.
“dead game the devs left unfinished and broken”
“This game is great! Fun to play, generally easy to understand, GREAT views in game. However I am repeatedly encountering issues where they push out an update and I have to start entirely over. Three times now my massive…”
17 of the 70 reviews raise this · 9 of them still recommend the game.
“dead game the devs left unfinished and broken”
“Abandonware.”
16 of the 70 reviews raise this · 3 of them still recommend the game.
“If I could refund it… I absolutely would, without hesitation. The devs claim the game is “finished” and maybe by EA standards, it technically is. The whole experience is odd at best. It feels slow and strangely padded…”
“Genuine tragedy what they did to this game, I have no clue why they decided to change so much. It felt like a completely different game coming back to it”
“It had so much potential and then they botched it up and abandoned it immediately after”
13 of the 70 reviews raise this · 7 of them still recommend the game.
“If I could refund it… I absolutely would, without hesitation. The devs claim the game is “finished” and maybe by EA standards, it technically is. The whole experience is odd at best. It feels slow and strangely padded…”
“Techtonica Could have been and was a really good factory game the Elevator gimmick was a interesting spin and added some fun logistic puzzles which is what factory games are all about. All the good was buried by later…”
“This game is great! Fun to play, generally easy to understand, GREAT views in game. However I am repeatedly encountering issues where they push out an update and I have to start entirely over. Three times now my massive…”
9 of the 70 reviews raise this · 5 of them still recommend the game.
“Techtonica Could have been and was a really good factory game the Elevator gimmick was a interesting spin and added some fun logistic puzzles which is what factory games are all about. All the good was buried by later…”
“I really love Techtonica but one thing that will never change is how they ruined the 1.0 release, splitting the open world map into levels, tons of bugs that will never get fixed, late game just being sand pump spam to…”
Counted across 70 English reviews, sampled to match this game's 64.8% positive rating · as of 2026-05-13
“Overall a fantastic game. I completed the story for the most part save for the final floor. Think of it as a mix of Satisfactory and Factorio. Fist person like Satisfactory. Conveyor belt system like Factorio. Please note, it does seem like the game is abandoned by the devs,…”
— a player, Steam review · 30 hrs played“Great game. No bugs, nice exploration / story loop Tech tree unlock and factory planning are fun”
— a player, Steam review · 55 hrs played“Game has horrible performance and is abandoned by its devs. I haven't even been able to get it to load into a world in two years on this update. Go play Factorio, Satisfactory, Dyson Sphere Program, w/e else, just not this.”
— a player, Steam review · 67 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live data self-collected from the Steam API · history through 2026-06 via SteamCharts.
Achievement stats
Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-09-19.
Price tracking
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Latest official news
Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.
Techtonica 1.0 ‘Going Up’ Out Today – 34% off for launch week!
Fire Hose Games is excited to announce to Groundbreakers both new and old that Techtonica has launched out of Early Access and is available now in 1.0 for Steam, Xbox Game Pass, and PlayStation 5! To
Creating Dynamic Music in Techtonica
Hey Groundbreakers! My name is Brandon (aka Cityfires) and I've been working as a dedicated (and the only) member of the Audio Team here at Fire Hose Games for several years! Today I wanted to just ch
Techtonica 1.0 Streams on Twitch through November
Groundbreakers – we’re less than a month away from Techtonica 1.0! As we approach our November 7th launch date, we’ll be streaming every Thursday on our Twitch channel (around 1p Eastern) to show off
Techtonica 1.0 Optimization
Hello Groundbreakers! I’m Greco and I’ve been working on optimization for Techtonica since I joined the team in January. I'm going to explain some of the optimization work that has been done in previo
‘Techtonica’ 1.0 Launches November 7th!
We’ve got some big news - we'll be launching Techtonica out of Early Access on Nov 7 for Steam, Xbox Game Pass, and newly announced PlayStation 5! The Going Up update (previously 0.6) has grown and mo
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-13.
| Genres | Indie, Simulation, Strategy |
| Player tags | Automation · Simulation · Building · Base-Building · Strategy · Resource Management · Sandbox · City Builder · Crafting · Management · Exploration · Multiplayer (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Multi-player · Co-op · Online Co-op · Steam Achievements · Full controller support · Steam Cloud · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English * , French, German, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish - Latin America, Traditional Chinese, Dutch, Korean * |
| Controller | Full support |
| Achievements | 24 |
| Official site | https://techtonicagame.com/ |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: OS *: Windows 7 or Later (64-bit) Processor: Intel Core or AMD Ryzen processor (3 GHz or greater / 4 cores or greater) Memory: 8 GB RAM Graphics: GeForce GTX 1650 4GB VRAM (or equivalent) / AMD RX 560 4GB VRAM (or equivalent) Storage: 15 GB available space Additional Notes: Internet connection required for mutliplayer.