Satisfactory is an open-world factory building game created by Swedish video game developer Coffee Stain Studios. It is a first-person open world that also involves exploration and combat. This game can be downloaded on PC through Humble Bundle, Games Store, Steam, and Epic. Explore an alien planet and create multi-story factories as you enter the conveyor belt heaven with your friends or alone! But is Satisfactory actually good? Let’s find out through this game review.
What is Satisfactory Game about?
The brief story of Satisfactory is simple and ends pretty much as soon as you set foot on Earth. For FICSIT Incorporated, an interplanetary industry with a focus on industrial materials and obtaining resources, you are a Pioneer. It is your responsibility to take this planet. Use its natural resources, build factories, automate production, explore its wide terrain, and make money for FICSIT and its stockholders.
The FICSIT Employee’s Goal
One of the FICSIT Employee’s duties is to exploit and use the resources you’ve planted on Massage-2(AB)b. Other than taking care of the resources, you must build your own establishments around the area, wherever you like and whenever you want. Satisfaction offers an expansive open-world experience on the alien planet Massage-2(AB)b, boasting a vast 30km2 area filled with unique fauna and creatures to discover. You can build your factory alone or join friends in co-op mode.
The game plays from a first person perspective as you build, automate and optimize your factory to perfection. There are tons of customisation options to help you design your ideal factory setup – be it high above sea level or sprawling across vast plains. To get around this far off land, the game features jump pads, factory carts, jetpacks, hypertubes, trucks and trains – so you can travel in style while running your ever-expanding industrial empire.
Pros and Cons in Playing Satisfactory
The game’s open-world allows players to delve into an immersive gameplay and enjoy the views and sights in-game. In addition to solo exploration, the game features co-op gameplay that let you invite or join other player’s world. One more thing that can add up to the “immersive” feel that the game provides is that it takes on a first-person perspective. In addition to that, the game features a progression system, letting you explore deeper and unlock a serious of goals. Lastly, the players have the freedom on however they desire to layout and design their facilities or factories.
There are many reasons for other players to easily get tired of a game and that is because of the repetition of tasks. Yes there are enemies, but defeating this said “enemies” doesn’t quite meet the “satisfaction” of a player and it almost feels like it is underdeveloped. Another consequence that has a quite similar feeling to the first given consequence is that the process of building efficient factories requires time.
CONCLUSION: Demise on the planet
If you are one of the players who enjoys lighthearted simulation games, you should definitely check out Satisfaction. The graphics and cinematography are pleasing but the gameplay isn’t just for everyone but has a specific target audience.
In the end, Satisfactory‘s positive and negative aspects are balanced. Although complex and lacking due to its restricted focus it offers deep meaningful experience. The game is an enjoyable, niche title that manages to please its target audience without being too aware of its limitations; it is neither an original masterpiece nor a disappointment.
