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TerraTech Worlds

Platform(s): PC
Genre: Action/Adventure
Developer: Payload Studios
Release Date: 2025

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'TerraTech Worlds' Available On Steam Early Access - Trailer

by Rainier on March 22, 2024 @ 11:09 a.m. PDT

TerraTech Worlds is an open-world, PvE survival game set on an uncharted alien planet.

As a freelance Prospector, you’ll explore, mine, build, craft and battle your way through natural hazards and very real enemies, to harness the power of your environment. Play solo or with friends, via 6 player online co-op (PvE), and get ready to adventure across alien frontiers, conquer natural hazards, build epic factory bases and battle AI enemies as you build your way toward planetary mastery.

Surpassing every limitation of the original game, TerraTech Worlds invites players to explore dangerous but beautiful biomes, gather valuable resources, and create unique bases and vehicles to fend off roaming bandits. With fully deformable terrain, water physics, dynamic weather, day and night cycles, factory automation gameplay, and vastly expanded customisation, TerraTech Worlds distils ten years of studio experience into a brand new title.

Built from the ground up in Unreal Engine 5 and optimized for large scale simulation, the sandbox survival-builder is a multiplayer experience that supports up to 6 players via online co-op.

TerraTech Worlds is now available on Steam Early Access for $29.99 / £24.99 / €29.99, and will remain so for about 18 months.

"With TerraTech Worlds we wanted to create a rich, immersive sandbox that drew from our ten years of experience working on its predecessor, TerraTech.” says CEO and Founder, Russ Clarke. “With this ground-up reimagining, we wanted to provide players with a deep, layered experience that brought together immersive and diverse landscapes, expressive base building and automation, spherical planets, oceans and terrain deformation - so fans of games like Satisfactory and Valheim can enjoy those types of experiences, combined with TerraTech's intuitive block-building gameplay.”

“The game is still very much in development. This is not the 'feature complete Beta with some content switched off' style of Early Access release that has become increasingly common. We are still working stuff out. This is how we work, and we've always done our best work this way - ask TerraTech players what they think about that! Right now, there are things that are missing and things that are unfinished. We want to hear what you think about them while there's still time to incorporate feedback. We WILL listen, and we WILL make changes. But make no mistake, this is still a fun game, not a broken bug-fest, and that's how we will keep it throughout this process. The core gameplay is in place, you can play co-op, there will be dedicated server support, and there are already dozens if not hundreds of hours of play in there to enjoy.”

“In a nutshell, at 1.0 the core of the game will feel fully established and polished. Key features and content that we have announced will be in place and will not feel like work in progress. This includes features carried forward or reinterpreted from TerraTech (like airborne travel and creative mode), new signature features in TerraTech Worlds (like terrain modification, water travel, base building and automation, with blueprints), and core content such as world events, boss battles, and the narrative and world-building framework behind them. And yes, there will be multiple worlds in TerraTech Worlds! Our public roadmap will list these key points; we will regularly update this and post in-depth discussion of upcoming areas of development, factoring in the additions and changes in direction that we'll inevitably make through the Early Access process.”

Its public roadmap spans more than 12 months and is set to deliver flight, fresh planets, boss battles and much more.


Key Features:

  • EXPLORE: Explore a 300km² planet with no loading, no streaming and no limits, populated by rich and diverse environment biomes , with a day/night cycle, dynamic weather, dangerous plant life, hostile enemy factions and bases, and more. Venture deep into strange forests, dodge lightning storms, soar high above treacherous terrain and traverse rivers and oceans. The world is yours to explore.
  • DESIGN, CRAFT & BUILD: Create and customise vehicles, bases and factories in a limitless possibility space, to overcome any challenge you encounter, using an intuitive modular building system. Add new Blocks to your ever-expanding collection and unlock more building opportunities. Whether you mine your own resources or steal them from others, you can use them to craft, design, construct and continually upgrade your creations in your own unique style, to take on the huge variety of challenges the harsh wilderness will throw at you.
  • MINE & TERRAFORM: Expand and consolidate your planetary infrastructure by extracting precious resources, transporting them back to base before refining and crafting them into advanced building materials and progressing to automated production lines. Specialise your tech builds for efficient manual resource extraction before upgrading to automated exploitation. Resculpt the landscape to suit your needs with free-form terraforming tools.
  • COMBAT & DEFENSE: Encounter and overcome a diverse range of enemy Techs as you expand your territory, scavenging and researching new blocks to upgrade your combat capability. Experiment with ever-more powerful and specialised combat builds, and team up with your fellow Prospectors to raid enemy bases and push back the frontier.
  • CO-OP PvE: For the best chance of survival on this lawless alien frontier, it pays to build, explore and battle together. Define your role and design a unique build with complete creative freedom to express your own play style by combining block abilities - as part of a team of up to six allied Prospectors. Battle side-by-side to take down the toughest of enemies and work as one to build complex, automated bases.

TerraTech Worlds is coming to PC (Steam) in 2025.


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