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Mine through an alien planet’s caves, scan ruins, and automate a growing underground factory while pursuing a campaign mystery.
Released 07 Nov 2024
Dig Through Caves
Automate Conveyor Lines
Scan Ruins for Tech
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.
Developed by Fire Hose Games · Published by Fire Hose Games
You play as a Groundbreaker on Calyx, an alien world whose underground expedition has gone wrong. As you explore its caves and facilities, you encounter clues to what happened and communicate with cubic companions.
Mine ore, gather materials, and process them through specialized machines. Build conveyor belts and inserters to connect production lines, and expand your factory by carving space out of the surrounding terrain.
Explore for artifacts, resources, and technologies that unlock equipment and upgrades. Research, production goals, and campaign tasks advance your capabilities; the game can be played solo or in co-op for up to four players.
Some players enjoy building and optimizing underground factories, and praise the distinctive setting, visuals, and story-led exploration. Reviews also highlight interesting automation and progression ideas. Recurring criticisms include performance problems, especially later in play and in co-op, bugs, unclear recipes or progression, and a late game that many describe as grind-heavy; many reviewers also express disappointment about development stopping.
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.
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.
| Platforms | Windows |
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| Achievements | 24 |
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| Controller support | Xbox |
| Controller required | No |
| DLC / extras | 1 listed on Steam |
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| Website | Official website |
