TerraTech
Worth it · Action · 2018
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $24.99.
- Length
- 17.5h
- Value
- $1.43/hr
- Reviews
- 91% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, nVidia GeForce 520M or Intel HD 4000, 1 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
TerraTech is an open-world, sandbox adventure game, where you design and build your own creations through a mix of crafting, combat and discovery. Design vehicles from a huge library of blocks. Scavenge, craft and buy new parts to survive and become the ultimate planetary prospector.
What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
February 2024 is where it bottomed out, at $4.99. 79 discounts in the 12 years on record. They run about 40 percent off, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 4 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 6 weeks.
Value puts it in the top 2 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 96 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 97 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Space Engineers ($19.99, scores 79) beats it on value, while it beats Green Hell ($24.99, scores 60).
8 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written August 2022 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 59 percent of the 778 reviews written there were positive, against 91 percent overall, and those are 4 percent of everything written about it. It sells extras on top of the sticker price (cosmetic); the score docks it lightly for that.
The main story runs 17.5 hours. Doing everything runs 50, 2.8 times as long.
The drop-off
69% 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
261 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
Amazing game. Originally saw SSundee play this back in 2015 together with other youtubers like Jacksepticeye. Still lives up to the game I used to aspire to play back then.
this is my brother favorite game i love watching him play it and making mech's very good game i recommend you playing it and not to give up love you all
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
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TerraTech scores 71/100 on the BANG Score (worth it). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/285920/terratechThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 16, price as of Sep 24.
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