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E3 2018: Satisfactory gets a 7 out of 10 for its name alone

by: Randy -
More On: Satisfactory

This looks fun. If you, like me, work in supply and logistics as your day job, then Satisfactory looks a lot more like work than fun. But it's the kind of jobby-game I imagine my ideal self enjoying. Also, the name Satisfactory is perfectly, dryly humorous, there's a "lizard doggo" serving as a cute little mascot, and the game is made by the folks that made Goat Simulator. I know. Weird.

Satisfactory appears to be Factorio setting up shop in No Man's Sky. It's a first-person open-world factory building sim. Your job is to build a massive machine for a mysterious purpose. You conquer nature (yes, there's combat), build multi-level factories, and revel in the automation your hands have wrought. And even though I mentioned No Man's Sky, I just meant the alien environment. Satisfactory doesn't take place on 18 quintillion planets. It takes place on one planet. Actually, on one 30-square-kilometer patch of handcrafted ground. I mean, yay. Satisfactory will officially support one to four players, but Coffee Stain seems okay with letting players break the game by trying for more? They're working on it, it seems. Please do read their FAQ. It's actually a funny read, which is contradictory to what FAQs usually represent.

Satisfactory is planning on going into paid-for Steam Early Access sometime this year. I might try it out, but I also might have to change jobs in real life first. Ah, who cares: conveyor belts are neat.