Satisfactory

So listen. I don’t pay for games. Like ever. If it ain’t free or on some sketchy site with 47 ads and one tiny “Download” button (that’s never the real one), I ain’t playing it.

Then i saw Satisfactory

At first, I was like “lemme just test it,” so I pirated an old version just to try it. Bro. I played for 15 minutes and suddenly I was knee-deep in conveyor belts and smelters like I work night shift at some alien IKEA factory.

Game had me hooked. I started crawling all over the internet trying to find the latest version, but every download came with 3 viruses, a Trojan Horse , and my antivirus yelling at me like it caught me doing a crime. After a few hours of clicking “No” on 15 different popups and STILL not finding a working version, I just got tired man…

So I did the unthinkable. I actually bought it. Me. Paying for a game. That’s when I knew this wasn’t just a game this was something else.

No cap is definitely worth it. This game is like a drug for people who like building stuff and being efficient but also somehow making everything a mess. You start with one belt and 3 hours later your whole screen is just wires, smoke, machines, and you’re like “why is my power dying again???”

Easy 10/10. I paid money. That should tell you enough.

This game man... What a piece of love. Even after 650+ hours I still find myself playing and enjoying every bit of it. The content updates help a ton with that. There's always something that gets added where you either want a fresh start if its been a while since your first world or just to re-engineer your existing factory with the new content. Its also so much fun with friends because I feel there is a little bit in this for everyone. With the exploring for hard drives, collectables and rare items to the designing, building and refining Satisfying Factories! I cant recommend this game enough or vouch for the AMAZING team at Coffee Stain for all the passion this game clearly represents!!! I love it so much I had to buy the mug IRL, and my buddy has the vinyl ordered!

Tier 4 and beyond is what killed my enthusiasm for this game. Two parts in particular being Uranium in general and then the next 'stage' of complexity and the 'be ready to rebuild everything you've done so far for the 4th time minimum.' If there was a 'Complete Tier 3 and then finish the game or go into Sandbox mode' that would be something of a perfect compromise.

There's scaling up, and then there is 'if you haven't used a guide then you haven't got a chance.' Tier 4 leans into the latter, so I can only imagine tier 5 is then even worse.

Don't get me wrong, I like the game mechanics, I like building my own little factories and connecting things around the map. If you can spend 1000 + hours without actually finishing the game or losing your mind it is probably the most cost-effective game on the market...

But if you want to actually feel you are achieving things in that time, or if you like to complete games then I would definitely recommend something else.

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I tried it, just can't get into it. Still, Let's Game it Out has fun with it, so that's worth something. I can't fault the game. Just I can't seem to get into the groove.

This game is currently getting me through a weird breakup I am going through. I am putting all of my pent up frustration and sadness into creating factories that are terrible for the enviroment. Great game!!!

It is so easy to get lost in this game (in a good way!). Lots of different kinds of tasks to do: search and collect things, build a base, craft objects, fight creatures, etc. Really enjoying it :)

It's the best game I've ever played - if you like base building this is the game for you. I love it, maybe too much, PROBABLY too much, HEEELLLLLPPPP

Comparisons to Factorio are unavoidable... but unwarranted. Satisfactory and Factorio have almost nothing in common. It is much better compared to Subnautica.
Subnautica was an exploration game, with base-building tacked on. It was dominated by exploration.
Satisfactory seems like an exploration game with base-building tacked on. It is dominated by base-building.
Both games require you to mine ore patches to progress through a mandatory tech tree, tied to the main story line.
Both games also have an optional tech tree, which you progress through via exploration (searching ruins for new blueprints).
Both games also have janky combat and a predetermined map.

Satisfactory, however, has no story. You explore only to see the pretty landscapes, and maybe to search for entirely optional blueprints in ruins. There is a narrator who alternates between humorous, Dilbert-style corporate satire; and - frankly - a boring, repetitive and incoherent code-speak that never gets to the point.
On the main menu, the game asks you what world you want: grasslands, rocky desert, mountains or sandy desert. It doesn't make it clear that these are not different planets - they are merely different spawn points on the same gigantic map.

This is the type of factory-game in which ore patches are infinite. You are only limited by the mining rate of the single extractor you may place on them. As mentioned before - the map is gigantic. Ore patches, often, are literally miles away from each other. Unfortunately, long-range transport is unlocked surprisingly late in the game, and most players are likely to build multiple-kilometre conveyor belts that clip through terrain.
Regarding conveyor belts, another problem is that "smart" splitters and mergers are unlocked shockingly late in the game. Effectively, for the entire game it will be impossible to put more than one resource type on one belt! The only way to manage it would be to maintain a perfect ratio at 100% uptime - else you will clog your machines and have to manually deconstruct the belt every time. It will also be impossible to load more than one type of resource onto a vehicle - let alone unload and sort them. Want to bring extra fuel in the cargo? Tough luck.

Where I think the game shines is on scale. A basic crafting machine in Satisfactory is roughly the size of... 2x2x4 metres? This is one of the smallest machines in the game - and you will need hundreds of them! The impossible to avoid conveyor spaghetti and staggering scale of even a noob factory in the endgame is a sight to behold. I love seeing screenshots of random people's factories upon beating the game. They are all different, have some of their creator's personality, and are always too big to fit on multiple screenshots.

The problem with scale, though, is that Satisfactory can't handle large-scale building. You must build these gigantic factories one small piece at a time. Blueprints have to be unlocked, and you only get the small ones. The big blueprint is unlocked around the same time that the game ends. But the worst part by far is building train tracks. You can only build them in what feels like 50 metres at a time - yet the map is almost 10 kilometres across.

I hate to say this about a game that entered early access 6 years ago (as of 2025), but I think it still has potential to grow. No idea whether the devs are planning to expand on the QoL, and the equally tedious, faux-story narrator bollocks that doesn't go anywhere.

That said... Satisfactory has a lot of charm. It has humour, it has personality. It's janky and tedious... and yet I liked it a lot. Enough, even, to want to play through it a second time. Maybe one day I'll have an extra 80 hours lying around.

Satisfactory

---{ Graphics }---

☑ You forget what reality is
☐ Beautiful
☐ Good
☐ Decent
☐ Bad
☐ Don‘t look too long at it
☐ MS-DOS

---{ Gameplay }---

☑ Very good
☐ Good
☐ It's just gameplay
☐ Mehh
☐ Watch paint dry instead
☐ Just don't

---{ Audio }---

☐ Eargasm
☑ Very good
☐ Good
☐ Not too bad
☐ Bad
☐ I'm now deaf

---{ Audience }---

☐ Kids
☑ Teens
☑ Adults
☐ Grandma

---{ PC Requirements }---

☐ Check if you can run paint
☐ Potato
☑ Decent
☐ Fast
☐ Rich boi
☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer

---{ Game Size }---

☐ Floppy Disk
☐ Old Fashioned
☑ Workable
☐ Big
☐ Will eat 15% of your 1TB hard drive
☐ You will want an entire hard drive to hold it
☐ You will need to invest in a black hole to hold all the data

---{ Difficulty }---

☐ Just press 'W'
☐ Easy
☐ Easy to learn / Hard to master
☑ Significant brain usage
☐ Difficult
☐ Dark Souls

---{ Grind }---

☐ Nothing to grind
☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks
☐ Isn't necessary to progress
☐ Average grind level
☐ Too much grind
☑ You'll need a second life for grinding

---{ Story }---

☐ No Story
☐ Some lore
☐ Average
☐ Good
☑ Lovely
☐ It'll replace your life

---{ Game Time }---

☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee
☐ Short
☐ Average
☐ Long
☑ To infinity and beyond

---{ Price }---

☐ It's free!
☑ Worth the price
☐ If it's on sale
☐ If u have some spare money left
☐ Not recommended
☐ You could also just burn your money

---{ Bugs }---

☐ Never heard of
☑ Minor bugs
☐ Can get annoying
☐ ARK: Survival Evolved
☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs

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Servers still need some work but the game is lots of fun. Quite easy to loose track of time while playing. Thankfully there is the time played alerts.

This game is a massive, massive time sink. If you happen to be someone who dislikes long games, give this one a miss.

Some may look at Satisfcatory just as a "factory simulator" from the outside but tbh thats pretty wrong - the game has beautiful handcrafted world as well with many places to discover and explore (even more so after 1.0 update)

For me it is a great combination of Subnautica (exploration/base building/handcrafted beautiful world) and Factorio (factory building/automatisation/ways to increase efficiency)

Had an absolute blast playing it, highly recommend:)

A game crafted by a team that has built a strong and proactive relationship with its userbase. This connection, among other things, has helped Satisfactory become the amazing game it is today. Now almost bug-free, with stunning graphics and a complete storyline.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3472066416

This game is very addictive. You will find yourself wondering where the time went. Once you start a project you'll not want to stop until it's finished.

Игра ахуенная
Начиналось все с пиратки, зашли поиграли, погравилось , купили. С тех пор я стал любителем БДСМ в промышленном масштабе ведь мне надо именно 8 компьютеров в минуту а не 7,9 и ради этого я готов очко порвать и это относится в целом ко всему прохождению игры, отыграл 200 часов и это только начало чтобы достичь полного удовлетворения необходимо потратить пару тысяч часов вашей никому не нужной жизни, о том что вы не очень важный сотрудник вам регулярно будет напоминать ADA

Satisfactory is a fantastic factory-building game that will appeal to any fan of the genre.
The game offers hundreds of hours of gameplay, and if you ever get tired of the base content, it’s fully moddable. While it still lacks a few key mechanics that you might find in similar titles, it still delivers a full and satisfying experience—whether you're playing solo or with friends.

Pros:

- Great visuals
- Diverse map
- Good optimization
- Tons of ways to build factories using your creativity
- A solid choice for newcomers to the genre – not too simple, but not overly complex either

Cons:

- The final milestones can feel quite grindy. If that’s not your thing, it’s definitely worth investing in a hosted server, where progress continues even while you’re offline.

Overall rating: 8,5/10

Amazing product, hours of endless fun, from an amazing studio of devs that still care about games!

this game is amazing, and is the best way to start on factory games in general. 100% recommend it

if you have OCD max efficiency tism then you'll like it

get a tv show running in 2nd monitor for optimal enjoyment. fun with friends.

ps. get a friend to help figure things out early or watch a yt guide. I rage quit for not understanding game for 8months until I gave it a 2nd try

Quite repetitive after a while. Just constantly expanding your crafting set ups, the same way over and over.

The thing that makes Satisfactory fun when I find similar games like Factorio and Dyson Sphere Project tedious and frustrating is the lack of fail state or loss of progress. All resources are unlimited, there's no pollution or invasion mechanic, so long as you keep your power grid strong enough to support everything the only limit is what your computer can handle. Because it's in first-person 3D it is much less tedious to organize and connect everything because you aren't limited to a single plane. Letting you have fun and play around instead of having to strictly optimize from the get-go in the name of survival is such a good choice! The constant babbling of the Glados knockoff and the Borderlands AI knockoff can be switched off, as can the pretty uninteresting combat against the ambient native fauna, and the strong modding support means almost any bit for friction can be sanded off in a few clicks.

Started This Game In Update 5 with a very closed mind and decided it wasn't for me, oh how wrong I was. After update 7, I really started getting into it and now that it has fully released into 1.0 and 1.1 Experimental, It has become the most stable, Optimized, and creative game I have ever played. Thank you CSS for all the frequent updates!

my brain has been melted because the game is too confusing for my mush brain. oh yeah very good.

I do genuinely marvel over how slowly this game can ease complexity onto you, only to be forcing you to create utter logistical behemoths that strain the mind to plan out. This is absolutely a game for people that love spreadsheets and I love that about it.

the new updates are great. does need more opened lands but still there is alot to explore

I haven't felt this way about a game since I first played Minecraft years ago. Hours will feel like minutes while playing. There's always "just one more thing" that you need to do before getting off which makes this game so addicting.

Love the game as a whole. i only wish for more maps and challenges.

---{ Graphics }---
☐ You forget what reality is
☑ Beautiful
☐ Good
☐ Decent
☐ Bad
☐ Don‘t look too long at it
☐ MS-DOS

---{ Gameplay }---
☐ Very good
☑ Good
☐ It's just gameplay
☐ Mehh
☐ Watch paint dry instead
☐ Just don't

---{ Audio }---
☐ Eargasm
☑ Very good
☐ Good
☐ Not too bad
☐ Bad
☐ I'm now deaf

---{ Audience }---
☐ Kids
☑ Teens
☑ Adults
☐ Grandma

---{ PC Requirements }---
☐ Check if you can run paint
☐ Potato
☐ Decent
☑ Fast
☐ Rich boi
☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer

---{ Game Size }---
☐ Floppy Disk
☐ Old Fashioned
☑ Workable
☐ Big
☐ Will eat 10% of your 1TB hard drive
☐ You will want an entire hard drive to hold it
☐ You will need to invest in a black hole to hold all the data

---{ Difficulty }---
☐ Just press 'W'
☐ Easy
☐ Easy to learn / Hard to master
☑ Significant brain usage
☐ Difficult
☐ Dark Souls

---{ Grind }---
☐ Nothing to grind
☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks
☐ Isn't necessary to progress
☐ Average grind level
☐ Too much grind
☑ You'll need a second life for grinding

---{ Story }---
☐ No Story
☐ Some lore
☐ Average
☐ Good
☐ Lovely
☑ It'll replace your life

---{ Game Time }---
☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee
☐ Short
☐ Average
☐Long
☑ To infinity and beyond

---{ Price }---
☐ It's free!
☑ Worth the price
☐ If it's on sale
☐ If u have some spare money left
☐ Not recommended
☐ You could also just burn your money

---{ Bugs }---
☐ Never heard of
☑ Minor bugs
☐ Can get annoying
☐ FIFA
☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs

---{ ? / 10 }---
☐ 1
☐ 2
☐ 3
☐ 4
☐ 5
☐ 6
☐ 7
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☑ 10

This game is good, there are dogs, and guns, and bombs, and efficiency...

What more could you ever want?

I once played 200 hours in 2 weeks. Only play this game of you have absolutely nothing to do and either love mess and chaos or symmetry and organisation.

Satisfactory is a masterclass in factory automation, exploration, and sheer engineering euphoria. If you enjoy turning chaos into order and love seeing production chains hum like a well-oiled machine, this is the game for you.

Some minor gripes:
1. Trains can be a bit fussy, though deeply rewarding when mastered
2. Needs a bit more endgame content for post-space elevator players, but that’s what mods are for
3. Power management (especially nuclear) can be difficult and a grindy hurdle for newer players

If you think your factory is efficient, wait until you rebuild it for the third time with alternate recipes and a bus system. That’s when the real addiction kicks in.

Highly recommended for engineers at heart, perfectionists, and those who feel most alive watching iron rods flow like clockwork across hundreds of meters of conveyor belts.

Started playing...Deleted everything and rebuilt, then deleted everything and rebuilt again.Did this like 7 times and enjoyed every second.

Got chased by a giant leaping spider, and I screamed like a little girl.
Didn’t know this was a horror game.

Been playing with my wife. I like building stuff and she just smashes xeno-pigs with xeno-basher stick. 10/10 family experience.

This game focuses on management of resources and designing your factory lines. This can be very addicting and time will pass unknowingly.

For everyone that ever played minecraft with mods, or just loved automating stuff and finding every little way you could make your machines faster, this is the game for you. This is where you get addicted.

This is a game that will make time slip away—if you have any to spare, of course. Similar to Factorio, Satisfactory is a logistics game in which the player explores to acquire materials to build materials needed to construct an orbiting station facility. In short, great game with a lot of value. People who like to play Call of Duty or don't like to think too much while playing games make take issue with Satisfactory.

The game is quite astounding visually and delivers a solid gameplay experience while testing the player's ability to organize and design a factory. It's a little crazy going from the 2D-ish world of Factorio to an open 3D world of Satisfactory. The map itself is quite vast (not painfully vast) and unlike Factorio, doesn't rely on seeds. The map is hand crafted and remains the same no matter what playthrough the player is on. Could be good or bad depending on who is playing. The controls are pretty solid and include a lot of manoeuvres that even I didn't expect. The big one is the ability to press the crouch button and, given enough speed, ability to slide. Extremely useful early game when trying to get down hills or down conveyer belts. Moreover, every action is easy to access and easy to implement given how everything is laid out. The player feels in complete control while fighting, building, exploring, or simply sitting around and thinking.

The game world itself offers quite a bit to the player to check out. There are resources that the player can discover, pickup, and research to further unlock other equipment or abilities. Most mines are accessible, but will require some special equipment to access. There are three main stations (there are more, but for the sake of length): crafting bench, equipment bench, and a MAM (research station). Crafting bench allows the player to make new materials by hand (handy early game before automation), the equipment bench which allows players to make hand held tools and suit modifications, and the MAM allows the player to research new materials or equipment. There is a lot of additional buildings that are unlocked and available as the player progresses through "Tiers". Tiers can be completed by researching with mined or refined materials. When the tiers that are available (tiers appear two at a time) are completed, the player is requested to continue building the Space Elevator. When materials are delivered to the Space Elevator, then new tiers unlock.

The visuals and graphics are actually pretty good. Although I was expecting Unity type graphics and assets, the designers did a good job creating the objects, creatures, and the world itself. The world doesn't change, but a pretty good job was done designing its topography (map) and some of the sights are definitely wonderful to see. When I discovered oil by the sand patches, there was a few times I stopped just to enjoy the view of the horizon (albeit virtual). All the requires animations seem to be there and the game is relatively smooth overall in this domain. The sounds and music was another domain that was well done. The music doesn't feel like generic factory music, and seems to have hints of geographic culture depending on the song playing (some hints of Asian music mixed in with the music they've produced). Most of the sounds are appropriate and give the player a hint of what is going on in their surroundings. There are some sounds (like the crafting sound especially early in the game) that may annoy players, holding the button down for a minute or two to get a good stack of material.

Overall, I would recommend this game on sale. I don't think the full price is worth it, but anyone that plays it can tell that there was a lot of thought put forth into the game connecting the objects, world, environment, and style of play all together. The game is a lot better with friends (and faster) and I feel it has a decent amount of replayability, given you're not tired from trying to connect pieces across the map. The multiplayer aspect is a nice addition and better controller support would perhaps attract more of a player base. Small additions to the game, such as enemies that can attack the player and hidden hard drives that provide upgrades, add an extra layer of excitement to keep players engaged. Good game, but would recommend doing your homework if you're completely new to the automation/building genre.

RATING: 8.4/10

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Love the game and the community

Before getting this, I had not watched a single video on Satisfactory. I had never played the early access. I patiently waited. I set up a dedicated server, so the factory can run even when I am not in game and here's the verdict:

This game is on of the very few that can be considered somewhat of a cure to the sickness that we see in the gaming industry today. It's polished. It works! You can create MASSIVE interconnected systems. Explore, there's a TON to discover. The gameplay feels rewarding. It let's you play how you want, change the rules if you will and make it Harder/Easier, play with friends (4-player co-op is not a hard limit, it can be changed in an .ini file), it doesn't shove propaganda and ideology down your throat, it lets you have fun. It has a great sense of humor! And best of all, it has OFFLINE LAN play. Just like Baldur's Gate 3, Factorio, Mindustry and Minecraft (that I played also on my dedicated server with my kids) :D Of course there are other titles out there that sport all of the above, but I just want to say a massive THANK YOU to Coffee Stain Studios for staying humble and staying true and not taking the route of other companies that take the shareholder pleasing route and then blame their clients when things go wrong!

I will buy this game for my kids and friends in the months to come. Love you for this! Excellent job!

So excited about that game that I played for about 350 hours in the week that followed the release.
Also, great community and communication from Coffee Stain Studios.
At that point, some editors would already have 100$ of shitty DLC, I'm so glad that not every studio take that path.
And there are tons of mods to choose from for a customized experience.

very good game. spent 2 hours designing a Iron Ingot output only to scan a hard drive and get a new iron ingot recipe and having to tear it all down for that extra 3 parts per minute

If you like factory builders this is a must, its clean, refined and mixes in a bit of exploration, a bit of combat, just enough to wait out the builds which is an excellent equation for many hours of fun.

honestly? this is one of the absolute best games i think i've ever played. I don't have any real negative critiques, maybe if they had more/actual decorations but other than that? this game is a logistical nightmare that stretches the bounds of creativity as to how you will accomplish the milestones. while I use the term nightmare, that is a good thing. it will make you rack your brain as to how you are going to get something done, and when you finally figure it out? absolutely magnificent.

431 hrs in Epic and then bought this again to play through also the Steam achievements. So yes, one of my favourite games ever to spend my time on. A good balance of planning, building and some exploration, nasty spiders and inventory management.

I will not talk about the game, it is awesome and many people already talked about it.
I want to talk about the devs:
- They are not greedy like other developers/publishers and sell their game for a reasonable price.
- They care about the player in a way I have never seen in a game before: I received a message ingame that I already played 4 hours and that a break would be good.

Kudos Coffee Stain Studios for being just nice, sensible and caring!

Satisfactory is an addictive factory simulation game where you explore a vast alien world while building complex production chains. With a seamless combination of automation, exploration, and cooperative potential, the game offers an incredible sense of progression and satisfaction as your factory grows from simple conveyor belts to massive industrial networks.
After 12 hours, it’s easy to see why the game is so beloved – every new build and optimization feels like a reward, and there’s always something new to discover or improve. Whether you enjoy optimizing production flows or just enjoying the beautiful game world, Satisfactory is a fantastic experience that will entice you to play for many more hours.

You build factories to automate resources so that you have more resources to build more factories to automate more resources.

Great game with smooth gameplay and lots of content which unlocks throughout progression.

First started the game planning on playing for a 1 hour maybe 2, played 12 and got barely any sleep. Woke up and played some more, worth every single cent.