Reviewer Rating: 10/10
Price: NZ$ 49.99
Age Rating: 9+
Satisfactory is a first-person factory building game set on an alien planet. Players take on the role of an engineer working for FICSIT Incorporated, tasked with constructing massive, automated factories to harvest resources, manufacture goods, and expand their operations. With its immersive 3D world, players explore diverse biomes, uncovering hidden treasures and encountering indigenous wildlife along the way. The game emphasizes automation and efficiency, allowing players to design intricate production lines using conveyor belts, machines, and drones. As players progress, they unlock new technologies and upgrades, enabling them to optimize their factories and tackle more complex challenges. With its engaging gameplay, satisfying progression, and cooperative multiplayer support, Satisfactory offers endless opportunities for creativity and exploration as players strive to build the ultimate industrial empire on an alien world.
Addictive. If you're a perfectionist or like seeing things running smoothly this game is literally what you need. You control every little aspect of this game, resources rates, modes of transport, ratios. You can take a wacky wild approach and just hope you have enough of what you need and eventually run your factory into the ground - or you can be smart and plan everything out like I did. Calculate every move. How much of this resource do I need to create this amount of those at this rate, and how can I transfer this material to get to there as fast as I can. Do this for every single resource and you have entered this realm of diverse and complicated systems all running and you are the conductor. And you may be thinking, "oh with such a addictive game style the graphics must be lacking." You'd be wrong. The graphics in this game make the real world look like my Nintendo DS. Hand sculpture environment. Stunning views. Every single acre of land is accessible for your ruthless industrialization habits.
The developers care. Huge plus. They post weekly updates on what they are working on, whilst also keeping some things as a surprise. They listen to their players and what people with thousands of hours wish the game had, and then they make it. Soon to be released fully and not on early access which means we also get access to a story that will prolong your save. Co-OP. Want to make friends... or burn some bridges, this is a great way to do that. Get another brain to double check your math, but make sure they're on same level as you otherwise someone will end up agitated - or just get the weapons and explosives and see how high you can blow up a member of the ecosystem. The music is another reason to play this game, so seamlessly effective and I personally listen to it whilst mowing the lawns. Every aspect of this game is phenomenal and every cent of the purchase was well worth it. Don't be afraid of its price.
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