TerraTech
- August 9, 2018
- Payload Studios
- 49h median play time
At the core of TerraTech is an extensive mechanical construction kit that presents an interesting canvas for creative players. However, the Switch’s significant UI shortcomings, a cumbersome console control scheme, and a limited-feeling campaign will ensure that only persistent players stick around long enough to find the fun.
Get on Steam
Get on Xbox Games Store"Terratech is an open-world, sandbox adventure game with a good story, excellent mechanics, and sensational music. Create and customize your own vehicles in a mix of crafting, combat, and discovery, and play solo, co-op, or PvP. With a variety of blocks, guns, wheels, and wings from different mining corporations, design and build your own combat vehicles for survival and glory."
Mac OS
Nintendo Switch
PC
Playstation 4
Playstation 5
Windows
Xbox One
Xbox Series X|S
Linux
PlayStation
Xbox
Reviews
- story1,831 mentions
- 15 % positive mentions
- 77 % neutral mentions
- 8 % negative mentions
- gameplay1,024 mentions
- 36 % positive mentions
- 57 % neutral mentions
- 7 % negative mentions
- graphics423 mentions
- 44 % positive mentions
- 53 % neutral mentions
- 3 % negative mentions
- grinding348 mentions
- 2 % positive mentions
- 9 % neutral mentions
- 89 % negative mentions
- stability348 mentions
- 4 % positive mentions
- 0 % neutral mentions
- 96 % negative mentions
Critic Reviews
TerraTech Review
At the core of TerraTech is an extensive mechanical construction kit that presents an interesting canvas for creative players. However, the Switch’s significant UI shortcomings, a cumbersome console control scheme, and a limited-feeling campaign will ensure that only persistent players stick around long enough to find the fun.
60%TerraTech Review
TerraTech is by no means bad, and there's a lot to like and have fun with in it. The car creation aspect is wonderfully creative, and it's a lot of fun building up the car (or weird shambling monstrosity) of your dreams. A lot of effort went into this creation element, but it seems like nothing else was thought out in nearly as much detail. Creation is every bit as enjoyable as you think, but this never really gets around to having anything interesting to do with it. This emptiness, and a somewhat shoddy control scheme, are going to keep this just shy of great. But if you are just looking to get creative (and don't mind getting stuck in a rock every once in a while), TerraTech is a great way to kill some time.
70%TerraTech Review
Building LEGO-like vehicles, and having them explore a vast world, do quests, and shoot at other, similar tanks or planes, might sound like a fine idea for a construction sandbox, but TerraTech isn't really that good at what it does, for the simple reason that this just isn't fun to play, especially since the transition to the Nintendo Switch has you doing all that building and rebuilding with controls that feel out of place.
50%
