TerraTech

I love this game. By far the best goofy robot/vehicle builder I've come across. It does have some significant flaws, but the core gameplay is easily good enough to make it worth the money.
Pros:
- Very wide variety of weapon, locomotion, processing and utility blocks
- Blocks are divided into distinct 'corporations' each of which has its own style and strengths
- Accessible and simple mechanics and style that evolve naturally into more complex gameplay (certain areas are hurt by this simplicity, see cons)
- The corporation and money systems make for quite a satisfying form of progression in the campaign
- There are moments that the building system provides that you just don't get from other games. Building a massive crawling resource processor, and then challenging yourself to make it a FLYING massive resource processor and succeeding is fucking brilliant
Cons:
- It sometimes feels like the devs sacrificed too much in their pursuit of a simplistic style. This is most apparent in the controls - for some reason they quite significantly limit the customisation you can do in this area. Only a very limited number of keybindings are allowed
- The camera control is awkward. Trying to fly and target an enemy tech at the same time is unnecessarily finicky
- It feels like there is a lot of wasted potential when it comes to the campaign. There's no real exploration value to the world, so reaching a point where you can fly or are super-powerful is an anticlimax
All in all, this is a diamond of a game that could do with a lot of cutting and polishing. My only big worry is that it feels like this is happening at a snail's pace, though this might just be because I'm impatient for more!

Played this a long way back and recently returned and boy is it a better all over game to play! A ton of quality of life additions take out the terror of building and progressing. Now It moves a a pretty good pace throughout and stays well balanced until you hit op status. Even then it plays like a creative world in survival which I still find fun to come back to and challenge myself. It's not deep as far as I can tell, but its a damn fun game to come back to. It's in my top steam games for replayability.

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Terra Tech is no doubt a well loved game by its developers.
It's not the most flashy game out there, but it feels unique in how it handles things.
I love how relaxing this game can be, and equally frustrating while learning to play.
To me this game is like minecraft, not because its blocky, but because I always find myself coming back to it after a while, and enjoying the new content.
I do wish there was more of a use for armour. Its rather pointless.

Fun, but also frustrating
Terratech is a nice game where you build your own vehicle(s) (called "tech") to explore and mine resources. Defend yourself against other (hostile) techs and once you defeat an enemy try to scavenge any parts that they might have dropped which you can then add to your own tech to hopefully improve on the design and make yourself stronger and better than before.
It may take getting used to but it can definitely be a lot of fun.
Though there's unfortunately also a frustrating part....
Campaigning, creative or just messing around...
The game has several game modes which allow you to play it in different ways.
Campaign is the default "survival" mode in which you need to do missions, level up, improve on your tech and try to become the best prospector in the game.
Creative mode is where you can build anything you'd like without any restraints such as a need for money or a specific level to unlock stuff.
R&D. It's roughly the same as creative mode with the difference that you'll also get access to blocks and parts that aren't officially part of the game yet. So keep in mind that things could break ;) Also: this mode is only available through purchase of a DLC (which I shall review later).
The problem though is that the campaign mode isn't really balanced out which can easily leave you frustrated and maybe wanting to quit playing. No rage quits, but simply that feeling that you're not accomplishing anything and are only wasting your time doing pointless chores.
No storage or inventory.... (yet!)
See, you start out as a very small tech (basically your first tech consists of the base block ('cab'), a few default build blocks, some wheels, a drill and a laser cannon) and as you progress through the game you can destroy other hostile tech. If you're lucky they'll drop several items which you can then use for your own build. So far so good...
The problem though is that it won't be too long before you end up with an excess in blocks. Too many wheels to place, no room left for any of those lasers you found, etc. But if you just got rewarded with a whole collection of new blocks then it would be a waste to leave them behind. So sometimes this means that you'll have no other choice but to completely take your tech apart and rebuild it from the ground up. Even if you already took into consideration that you should leave enough room for possible new blocks; you will still run into this situation where there's free connections left so... break down & rebuild! ...again.
That can be fun the first time you do this but it becomes a chore soon enough. Why can't I store my blocks somewhere?!
Well, that's because "inventory blocks" (not their real name) are level restricted. So if you're only level 1 or 2 then you can forget about storing your blocks, which I think is a seriously flaw in the current game design. Sure, there are some ways to get around this. For example: buy a new 'base block' ("cab") and thus build a 2nd tech which you could use as some kind of block collector. The only problem with that is that it's not easy to switch between techs: there's no shortcut button or something, you literally have to double-click on the other tech. So if your other tech is behind a few trees, a hill or too far away then you can also forget about switching.
And as said: that gets frustrating because it's not much fun to have a pile of blocks which you can't use, and once you got hold of your second tech again the blocks could have already despawned. "yaaay...."
Despite its flaws still a lot of fun!
So yah, this game is far from perfect. Annoyances during the campaign, non-existent (official) documentation, etc, etc.
But honestly? If you look past all that then you could easily end up getting sucked right in. Try and collect all that new tech, build bizarre machines which can overpower your enemies and once you got hold of the basic setups get ready to discover even more bizarre techs!
And also never underestimate the things you can learn from experimenting with Creative or even R&D!
In conclusion....
This game takes getting used to. No joke: after having played for half an hour or so I was certain: this isn't for me so I requested a refund. I then re-visited the store page and went through some community posts, looked up the game again on Youtube and then changed my mind: let's try this again.
Well.. now (time of writing) I'm an easy 7 hours into the game. SO they must be doing something right ;)

This is a good game but i hope they make the story/campain longer and has a certain goal
I'm not sure if the new major updates are implemented in old save files cause I don't seem to be getting the missions/blocks of said updates

Truly a fun game. There is a bit of grinding and at times frustrating, but the overall experience is great. You can build a base, a vehicle of any kind, shoot, and drive. Fun fun fun