Satisfactory review
A first-person industrialism sim that sees you wrestling with machinery on an alien planet to create the perfect factory.
- Developer: Coffee Stain Studios
- Publisher: Coffee Stain Publishing
- Release: Out now
- On: Windows
- From: Steam, Epic
- Price: £27/€30/$30
There it is, the trans-planetary pipeline. One long tube of metal scarring a rural alien planet. It brings coal and water to my power stations, and electricity to my factories. It has taken a day of planning, construction and pumping. Now, the pipeline stands before me, a snaking behemoth of energy consumption. Suddenly, a thought comes. Why didn’t I just build coal stations next to the vein? I could have stretched a cheap wire across the planet, instead of a kilometre-long death pipe.
This is Satisfactory, a cracking first-person factory-builder that’s been in early access on Epic for a while. It’s coming to Steam today, so RPS management dispatched me to inspect the game’s machinery and ruin the extraterrestrial idyll with smog and incompetence. They sent the right person.