Factorio's concept with Empyrion's graphics: Satisfactory the game

I picked up this early access game a couple of days ago on sale at Humble for $23.99 (USD), a 20% discount. My best description is a first-person Factorio concept with Empyrion or No Man’s Sky graphics/movement.

It’s a very chill, untimed game: there are very few enemies - you mostly encounter one or two hog-type things around resource nodes, but once you dispatch them easily, they don’t seem to respawn. Anything you build can be disassembled without loss of resources, making it painless (cost-wise) to correct a mistake or try different layouts. And apparently the resource nodes (iron, copper, etc) are infinite.

At five hours in I’ve got quite a few things hooked together now, like iron miner → smelter → constructor → storage, which you can configure and change to produce whatever can be made from its input. The conveyor belt system is VERY flexible, intuitive, and accommodating: click the output of machine 1, click the input of machine 2, and swoop! your conveyor is built - even around corners and up/downhill (up to 35 degrees). For more complex layouts, conveyors have supports and escalators/descalators.

Powering all these machines becomes more and more of a task, both in the logistics of laying out the power distribution grid, and finding organic material like leaves and wood to feed the generators.

There is no “survival” aspect to your character: you don’t need to eat or drink, and no animals or aliens will attack your base. It’s all about building!

This video gives a pretty good demonstration of the beginning of the game:

New version 0.4 released
I see my thread never went anywhere, but after a few months off I am now back into Satisfactory (the game), and I’m enjoying it even more. I just unlocked HyperTubes, and now I can zip across several kilometers in about 30 seconds.

It’s a great mix of nice graphics, interesting alien worlds, and pacing: you can’t unlock all progress (technology tree) in 5 hours, but the journey to do so isn’t all that onerous, and encourages you to venture out and up.

I picked this up a little while ago and was really impressed. I played through most of the content that was available at the time, but am waiting for the full release before I start a new game.