Techtonica is a new factory-building game on a terrifying (and beautiful) rogue planet

It’s difficult to understand the appeal of setting up a factory if you’ve never fallen down that particular genre hole before. But few things in gaming are as satisfying as connecting together several interdependent machines into a massive supersystem. Developer Fire Hose Games knows the joys of that, which is why the studio is making the new first-person factory builder, Techtonica.

Early in the pandemic, Fire Hose president Eitan Glinert and his team played a lot of these kinds of games. Factorio and Satisfactory were especially influential to what would eventually become Techtonica. So expect to spend a lot of time gathering resources and then piecing together conveyor belts and pneumatic tubes. But with its game, Fire Hose saw an opportunity to fill in a gap left behind by other major entries in the genre.