Techtonica
Skip · Strategy · 2024
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 15, under the fair line, at $29.99.
- Length
- 39.3h
- Value
- $0.76/hr
- Reviews
- 65% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, GeForce GTX 1650 4GB VRAM (or equivalent) / AMD RX 560 4GB VRAM (or equivalent), 15 GB of storage. Windows only.
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 drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
The value story
December 2025 is where it bottomed out, at $4.79. 35 discounts in the 3 years on record. They run about 50 percent off, roughly 5 weeks apart.
It is pricier than 96 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 87 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Good Company ($24.99, scores 23) beats it on value, while it beats Automation Empire ($29.99, scores 11).
8 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written November 2024 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 39 percent of the 297 reviews written there were positive, against 65 percent overall, and those are 10 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
80% start to 1% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
27 players online when we last checked, on Sep 29, 02:47 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
It's better than Satisfactory and I'm mad about it. Got this on a whim and it opened a hunger in me for conveyor-belt-games that was nowhere near satisfied by the functional end of this game. I've thus, out of necessity, gone on to try a string of other similar games but nothing hits the same and no matter how many hours in whatever I put in I keep finding myself thinking about how Techtonica did it better in...
This is not the most polished game. It has some performance issues and some clunkiness in the second half, but overall it's a very solid factory game. Considering the price, if you like automation games, you'll probably not regret playing this one
Abandonné et laissé pour mort. À sa sortie Techtonica démontrait déjà quelques inconsistances et de très gros problèmes d'optimisation. Aujourd'hui les dernières mises à jours qui ont été effectuées (il y a longtemps) montrent que le studio n'a pas su bien prioriser les fonctionnalités importantes. Dans l'idée Techtonica est une tentative de mélange de Subnautica et automatisation, le tout remasterisé à la sauce...
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Techtonica scores 15/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1457320/techtonicaReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 26, price as of Oct 1.
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