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Techtonica

Techtonica is a first-person factory building game set beneath the surface of an alien planet. Work alone or in co-op to build factories, gather resources, research new technologies, mold the destructible terrain, establish a base of operations, and uncover long-forgotten secrets.

Storyline

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. 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 go further and deeper.

Screenshots

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24 Steam reviews

Review History

Reviews

24 total

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Steam User 4799STEAMNot recommended

It had so much potential and then they botched it up and abandoned it immediately after

Mar 17, 2026·12h·Verified

Steam User 6789STEAMNot recommended

leider keine feinde in der welt was ich dann doch für langweilig empfinde -.-
darum habe ich es wieder abgegeben . da es keine herausvorderungen bietet tiefer zu graben

Mar 16, 2026·3·Verified

Steam User 8680STEAMRecommended

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 conveyor belts. The story was pretty cool too, even though I didn't make it to the end. I'm looking forward to trying again when it fully releases!

Mar 12, 2026·31h·Verified

Steam User 4007STEAMRecommended

норм

Mar 9, 2026·14h·Verified

Steam User 2791STEAMRecommended

Nice game good factory concepts little number problem with the smelters

Mar 9, 2026·25h·Verified

Steam User 6383STEAMNot recommended

dead game the devs left unfinished and broken

Mar 7, 2026·4h·3·Verified

Steam User 9255STEAMRecommended

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, doing some online research, it seems they spent a lot of time on worthless additions such as laser tag and the "elevator system" essentially squandering what money they had. It is a bit disappointing that its not even on life support, has great potential IMO. Also odd that its still on Steam even though abandoned.

If you like factory games, and this happens to be on sale, I'd say go for it.

Mar 6, 2026·28h·Verified

Steam User 0485STEAMRecommended

Its a great experience and conveys the potential of a perfect mix of Factorio and Satisfactory. So i can recommend to experience the game and story, BUT:

- the Game is not optimized very good. SO the late endgame becomes unplayable in Performance no matter how good your Hardware is. Its a bit sad, you can feel that the game was rushed in the end and feels a bit unfinished, ....so BE WARE!.
-the game is missing a better storage System or customizable Signs and also a better overview over all alternative recepies to plan your Factory

But its still worth the experience for a couple of bucks.

Mar 3, 2026·118h·Verified

Steam User 3086STEAMNot recommended

Abandonware.

Mar 3, 2026·38h·1·Verified

Steam User 9713STEAMRecommended

Liked the game.
3d simpler satisfactory without combat, but with minecraft terrain editing.
The final tiers seem to be re-done fit current resources instead of adding new ones for the higher tiers, but from the sounds of it, this was a time-crunch quick-fix due to budget cuts. But it did work out in the end.
There's a small area that's completely confusing that if you wandered off on the map you could discover it.
Neat thing was it was for multiplayers somehow? but it was half-implimented it feels like, like a project idea that was dropped mid-way through. But it's neat to play around with anyways.

The Elevator shaft was a neat idea that I really liked, and discovered it was a last-minute change of some sort? But it did combine all the maps to help with their optimization of belts (split your factory over multiple floors so the game doesn't struggle on one floor)

IF you find it on sale, it's definitely worth it, more fun if you have a buddy to help build things with.
But do go in mind, This game is done, it is as-is. The devs have moved on, the publisher has absorbed the company, and or it's not financially viable to get the final polish on this gem.
On the other hand, it has a define ending and it's not super-long to get to like other factory games so it's a great intro to factories type with a 3d feel.

Mar 3, 2026·66h·Verified

Steam User 6352STEAMRecommended

Not sure if i should give tumbs up or down on this one. It has such potantial with an amazing storry now when it's released. Bit enoying that they remade the game so much from early acces and like other ppl said it's enoying that you have to restart after every update. But then again they dont seem to care about the game anymore so prolly no more updates.

My big reason for not wanting to give it a tumbs up is cus i dispise the controlls. If u played other base builders before it's going to take you a while to get into it and to me that kinda feel strange that you dont just follow the meta and forces button presses for everything instead.
With that said the storry makes up for it in my mind but i would not recomend buying it on full price, it's on sale alot and above 10€ it's most def not worth it.

Mar 2, 2026·68h·Verified

Steam User 8965STEAMRecommended

good

Mar 1, 2026·64h·Verified

Steam User 3383STEAMNot recommended

Agora depois de tanto tempo se queixam de não ter dinheiro para continuar o desenvolvimento, mas quando socaram a mecanica de lasertag, QUE NINGUEM PEDIU E TODO MUNDO ODIOU, ainda tinham? Mudaram completamente a ideia central do jogo enfiando um elevador central e vai sendo concertado e nem pra fazer um final foram capazes, são claramente um bando de sangue suga que quiseram sugar infinitamente o publico.

Feb 26, 2026·97h·Verified

Steam User 1232STEAMRecommended

Another one I wish was on going because ...............................

Feb 26, 2026·73h·Verified

Steam User 0535STEAMRecommended

Depuis la sortie de la 1.0 , Le jeu s'est encore amélioré . J'aime beaucoup le "Lore" et l'impression d'etre sous terre est bien présente , les recettes sont très nombreuses . de longues heures a construire les usines .

Feb 26, 2026·344h·1·Verified

Steam User 7081STEAMRecommended

I wish there was more, not because there isn't much, but because I enjoyed all that there was

Feb 25, 2026·146h·Verified

Steam User 4681STEAMRecommended

nice

Feb 25, 2026·15h·Verified

Steam User 1276STEAMNot recommended

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

Feb 23, 2026·29h·Verified

Steam User 6219STEAMRecommended

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 hours on the game, not knowing where the time went. This is one of the many factory building games I've played and so far this one is the best.

Feb 22, 2026·23h·Verified

Steam User 6165STEAMNot recommended

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 wanting to return was the sense of real value in exploration; you could dig a big, long tunnel to try to locate a far-off signal you'd uncovered. It really felt like you were trapped under the surface of a strange and beautiful world, trying to get out. It made me want to advance up the tech tree to unlock rail systems or high-voltage power to feed my factory across an expansive underground world.
Fast forward to 2026: I load up again, thinking 1.0 has been out for a while, and I bet there is so much crazy-cool stuff to explore.
I load up a new game and quickly encounter the “new” freight elevator, which, after completing the tutorial section, quickly dumps you out onto the second “region”…one of the first things you encounter is the “edge of the map” wall. Nothing has destroyed my will to play and explore more than that painfully obvious boundary wall. A little bit of exploration later, and I discovered what used to be an expansive feeling world is now chopped up into constrained feeling chunks, with the freight elevator serving as a loading screen to go between them. Don’t get me wrong, I'm not mad at the resource sink of feeding materials into some black box; it can be an excellent way to get players to build bigger to unlock the next level of tech (i.e. Satisfactory). Hell, even this game had it with feeding the terminals; I am disappointed by the decision to chop up what was a beautiful world into 2000s-era levels separated by a loading-screen elevator. It honestly felt like, in 2024, I somehow played a more advanced version of the game than the “full-release” version.
In terms of bugs and glitches, I did encounter a few minor ones, including buildings not accepting resources from my inventory, which was fixed by just closing and re-opening the building menu. Not game-breaking, but not a great sign either.
People are saying the devs have abandoned the game, and given there's been no activity in a few years, I would say that checks out.
Honestly, the game feels like one of the old factories you come across on the maps, something promising, abandoned, half-built to decay into obscurity.
Do yourself a favour and skip this one. If you want a good first-person factory building experience, play Satisfactory instead. I know I will be.

TLDR – It had promise once upon a time, but it is worse now than pre-1.0. Skip this one; there are too many good factory games out there now to bother with this one.

Feb 21, 2026·15h·11·Verified

Steam User 7856STEAMRecommended

Seems fine to me.

Feb 20, 2026·78h·Verified

Steam User 8082STEAMNot recommended

0.5版开始玩的，1.0存档爆破后就没动了，最近鼓起勇气重新吃完这份
所谓为了优化分割关卡根本就是扯淡，上了14层还没怎么提高产能已经开始卡的飞起了，0.5的时候物体数量远超现在这个存档都没这么卡，联机时沙井统计数据异常根本没法确定落点，后期没玩两下就完全无法和各种机器交互了
如果没在EAP玩过加上单人游戏的话那体验应该相当于一个奇怪一点的工厂游戏，但对于抢先体验玩家就是一场赛博仙人跳
最后大概是因为1.0改动导致的差评循环触发斩杀了，留了一地鸡毛和各种没修复的联机bug

Feb 20, 2026·103h·Verified

Steam User 3515STEAMNot recommended

IT WAS A GOOD GAME BEFORE THE STARTING POINT PICKAXE GOT REMOVED SOMEHOW NOW ITS UNPLAYABLE. ON THE COMPUTER VERSION ANYWAY

Feb 15, 2026·17h·3·Verified

Steam User 2427STEAMNot recommended

Öncelikle belirtmek isterim ki olumsuz oyum tamamen Türkçe dil desteği olmadığı içindir.

Türünü seven arkadaşlar bunu da sevecektir.

Benim hoşuma giden kısımları diyaloglar yardımcı seslerin çok güzel işlenmesi örneğin başlangıç noktasına geri döndüğümüzde diyaloglar çok değişik oluyor her ses duruma göre tepki veriyor ve konuşuyorlar aralarında oldukça hoşuma gitti.
Üretim ve amelelik haliyle çok ama elde üretimden çok makineleşmek için uğraşmak daha mantıkla çünkü kademesi artıkça üretim daha karlı oluyor aynı kaynağa daha fazla yani.
Keşif minimum düzeyde önemli ama sandıkları kesinlikle bulun çok faydalı şeyler çıkıyor ve taranacak şeyleri tarayın karlı olacaktır.
Grafikler de ve optimizede sorun oldukça az 1050ti ekran ve 16 gb ramle orta ayarda oynuyorum 60 fps alınıyor.

Beğenmediğim kısımsa 1. şahıs kamera açısı çok hızlı hareket halindeyken baş dönmesi olabiliyor.
En önemli beğenmeme durumu dil desteği tabi ki.

Feb 15, 2026·35h·1·Verified

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