Creative vehicle building freedom
Mentioned in ~1 in 3 positive reviews
“the freedom to build anything you imagine makes it worth it”
Steam review · 296.9 h played ↗
TerraTech
Worth buying? What 300 Steam reviews say.Worth buying? Here’s what 300 Steam reviews actually say.
Very Positive · 93%Very Positive · 93%Payload Studios2018Sandbox · Open World Survival Craft · Action
$24.99
Open on Steam ↗US Steam price, checked 6 h ago
The verdict
TerraTech is a creative vehicle-building sandbox with satisfying block combat and strong mods. It's held back by clunky building, bugs, weak co-op and abandoned updates, so skip it if you want polish.
Great for
Creative builders who like Lego-style vehicles, big guns, light factory play and mods
Main risk
Clunky building, bugs and lost bases or saves, plus limited co-op, in a game no longer updated
What players love
Nostalgic and highly replayable
Mentioned in ~1 in 4 positive reviews
“How I ended up spending 500 hours on this game I have no clue. But it's a cool concept with great execution.”
Steam review · 544.1 h played ↗
Satisfying combat and big weapons
Mentioned in ~1 in 7 positive reviews
“My tech weighs 80 tons, turns like a continent and has enough guns to invade a small country.”
Steam review · 157.8 h played ↗
Fun with friends in multiplayer
Mentioned in ~1 in 13 positive reviews
“Very funny to play with friends.”
Steam review · 967.6 h played ↗
Runs on low-end PCs
Mentioned in ~1 in 17 positive reviews
“I'm impressed it natively ran on an old 4 gb ram integrated graphics laptop with linux on lowest settings with almost no lag”
Steam review · 36.7 h played ↗
Great modding community
Mentioned in ~1 in 21 positive reviews
“one of the most fun games to mod, allows you to add progression/bosses to the game even if you don't like sandbox games”
Steam review · 4.1 h played ↗
What players complain about
Bugs, softlocks and lost saves or bases
Mentioned in ~1 in 3 negative reviews
“one day my base just disappeared. i then find out this is a bug that's been known about for years, there is no fix”
Steam review · 39.8 h played ↗
Co-op is limited and broken
Mentioned in ~1 in 4 negative reviews
“It's a great game in single-player. What they don't tell you is that co-op is missing half the features single-player has.”
Steam review · 72.5 h played ↗
Constant enemy spawns and weak AI
Mentioned in ~1 in 7 negative reviews
“constantly be sieged by random enemies that just won't stop coming no matter how many I destroy”
Steam review · 405 h played ↗
Clunky building and block rotation
Mentioned in ~1 in 8 negative reviews
“rotating something couldnt be made any more difficult for a game about building stuff.”
Steam review · 5.8 h played ↗
Abandoned by devs for spin-offs
Mentioned in ~1 in 9 negative reviews
“If the devs didn't try to turn the game into a franchise, left their primary game alone, and tried to develop other "Terratech" themed games.”
Steam review · 173.9 h played ↗
Epic Online Services forced on Steam version
Mentioned in ~1 in 17 negative reviews
“EVERY SINGLE TIME I OPEN THIS GAME, IT OPENS MY WEB BROWSER TO THE EPIC GAME STORE ASKING TO LINK MY ACCOUNT”
Steam review · 0.8 h played ↗
System requirements
From the Steam store page
Steam Deck: Playable1 GB
Minimum
OSWindows 7 64-bit
ProcessorIntel Core2 Duo T7600 @ 2.33GHz or AMD Athlon 64 FX-60 Dual Core
Memory4 GB RAM
GraphicsnVidia GeForce 520M or Intel HD 4000
Storage1 GB available space
Recommended
OSWindows 7 64-bit or newer
ProcessorIntel Core i5 750 @ 2.67GHz or AMD Phenom II X4 945
Memory6 GB RAM
GraphicsnVidia GeForce GTX 260 or ATI Radeon HD 5670
Storage2 GB available space
OSWindows 7 64-bit
ProcessorIntel Core2 Duo T7600 @ 2.33GHz or AMD Athlon 64 FX-60 Dual Core
Memory4 GB RAM
GraphicsnVidia GeForce 520M or Intel HD 4000
Storage1 GB available space
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