Indie · November 7, 2024

Techtonica (2024)

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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. FEATURES 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.

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Community Tag Signals

Tag weights reflect how many Steam users voted each descriptor — larger pills = stronger consensus.

  • Automation · 297
  • Simulation · 280
  • Building · 268
  • Base-Building · 264
  • Strategy · 249
  • Resource Management · 231
  • Sandbox · 221
  • City Builder · 219
  • Crafting · 214
  • Management · 201
  • Exploration · 192
  • Multiplayer · 186
  • First-Person · 176
  • Immersive Sim · 173
  • Co-op · 164

Position in Indie

MetricThis titleGenre position
Review volume2.8k Steam reviewsTop 74% in Indie
Positive rating67% positiveGenre average: 87% — this title sits in top 95%
Engagement hours36 h averageTop 14% for session depth among Indie

Localization Coverage

Interface / Subtitles (12)

  • English volume_up
  • French
  • German
  • Japanese
  • Polish
  • Portuguese - Brazil
  • Russian
  • Simplified Chinese
  • Spanish - Latin America
  • Traditional Chinese
  • Dutch
  • Korean volume_up

Full audio (2)

  • English
  • Korean

Features & Capabilities

Multiplayer

  • Multi-player
  • Co-op
  • Online Co-op

Community

  • Steam Achievements
  • Steam Cloud

Input & Comfort

  • Full controller support

Other

  • Single-player
  • Family Sharing

Release & Availability

Release dateNov 7, 2024
DeveloperFire Hose Games
Base price$4.79 -84%
DLC / Add-ons1 released
PlatformsWindows
Estimated owners100k–1M
External linksOfficial site · [email protected]

Engagement Profile

All-time avg

36h

moderate (15–40 hours)

Median

11h

Typical completion time

Achievements

24

Steam unlocks available

Reception Metrics

Steam community

67%Mixed · 2.8k reviews

1.9k positive · 935 negative

Curator recommendations

2.9k

Editions & Packages

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