Satisfactory
A factory simulation game set on an alien planet.
Satisfactory is a first-person factory-building game with cooperative multiplayer, played from the perspective of a FICSIT Pioneer on a resource-rich planet.[1] The game received "universal acclaim" from critics according to Metacritic and won PC Game of the Year at the 2024 Golden Joystick Awards.[2][3] A FICSIT Pioneer, the player character, is sent to a resource-rich planet to gather and process materials, constructing automated factories and infrastructure to produce large quantities of Project Assembly components for delivery via a space elevator.[1]
Quick Facts
- Developer
- Coffee Stain Studios
- Publisher
- Coffee Stain Publishing
- Director
- Mark Hofma, Oscar Jilsén
- Designer
- Mark Hofma
- Oscar Jilsén
- Conrad Stroebel
- Programmer
- Gustav Lofstedt, Stefan Hanna
- Artist
- Torsten Gunst, Joakim Sjöö
- Writer
- Hannah Beuger, Mata Haggis
- Composer
- Dennis Filatov
- Inez Kontio
- Jannik Reuterberg
Facts from the source article.
Making and release
Satisfactory was first announced at E3 2018 and entered closed alpha testing in mid-2018 before early access release on 19 March 2019.[4][5] The early access release initially had a year-long exclusivity period on the Epic Games Store.[4] Coffee Stain Studios built the game using Unreal Engine 4, drawing on their experience from Sanctum and Goat Simulator.[4] By November 2023, the studio migrated the game to Unreal Engine 5, which brought improved performance, a new lighting system, and vehicle and sound overhauls.[4]
The game's map is composed of manually designed biomes, not procedurally generated terrain, and its total area is estimated at 30 km².[4] The 1.0 version introduced changes such as altered positions for resource nodes, different recipe costs, and enhancements to game performance and multiplayer server stability.[6] More than 500,000 copies were sold within the first three months of early access, and by January 2024, total sales had climbed to 5.5 million.[7]
What the cited sources add
A PC Gamer article from March 2021 reported that Update 4 added many new parts for players to build and process through machines.[8] The same article noted that Coffee Stain was still deciding how to round out Satisfactory's development before exiting Early Access.[8] The article also mentioned that Update 4 was released on the experimental branch of the game on Steam and Epic.[8] A developer mentioned that a potential future tier, which would be the ninth, is intended to "round off the story and finalize everything with your project assembly setup".[8]
References
- Wikipedia, "Satisfactory" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Evans-Thirlwell, "Planet-smelting sim Satisfactory is now satisfactory enough to leave early access", Rock Paper Shotgun, September 10, 2024 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Satisfactory" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Satisfactory", Metacritic (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Satisfactory" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Jones, "Here are all the Golden Joystick Awards 2024 winners", GamesRadar (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Satisfactory" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: O'Connor, "Satisfactory looks a lot like first-person Factorio", Rock Paper Shotgun, June 12, 2018; Meer, "Mega-building game Satisfactory is shaping up to be far, far more than satisfactory", Rock Paper Shotgun, March 12, 2019; Purchase, "Goat Simulator dev's promising new game Satisfactory hits early access very soon", Eurogamer, March 9, 2019; "Making it in Unreal: the smooth science behind Satisfactory", PCGamesN, September 9, 2019; Nightengale, "Satisfactory upgrades to Unreal Engine 5", Eurogamer, November 14, 2023 (original not read en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Satisfactory" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Wales, "Satisfactory hits 5.5m sales after five years of early access, 1.0 due "this year"", Eurogamer, 2 February 2024; Romano, "Satisfactory launches September 10", Gematsu, 5 July 2024; "PC mega-hit Satisfactory is coming to Xbox Series X S this year", TrueAchievements, 2025-08-22 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Satisfactory" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Ebanez, "Satisfactory 1.0: Release window, new narratives, and more", Destructoid, 2024-07-05 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Satisfactory" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Bailey, "Epic exclusive Satisfactory has sold 500,000 copies in under three months", PCGamesN, June 7, 2019; MacGregor, "Here's how many copies Satisfactory has sold on Steam and Epic", PC Gamer, July 5, 2020; Wales, "Satisfactory hits 5.5m sales after five years of early access, 1.0 due "this year"", Eurogamer, 2 February 2024; Chalk, "Only one of Epic's 'first wave' of exclusives made money, and it wasn't Metro", PC Gamer, August 5, 2021 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Fenlon, "Satisfactory may get a final tech tier in a future update to wrap up its endgame", PC Gamer, March 16, 2021. facts only, no text reused. pcgamer.com
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