Satisfactory

Item: Satisfactory
Rating: 89
Author: VaporLens

Last updated: 2025-07-04

Summary

Deep factory automation and design
Intuitive design and quality-of-life
Creative problem-solving gameplay
Stunning world and rewarding exploration
Tedious grind and pacing issues
Persistent technical issues and bugs

Emotions

Satisfaction27%Frustration9%Enjoyment8%Addiction7%Joy7%

Reviews (sample size): 2000
Helpful reviews: 76%
Unhelpful reviews: 24%
Protest reviews: 0%

89%
Helpful reviews with positive sentiment
11%
Helpful reviews with negative sentiment

Positive points: 8876
Negative points: 4023
Gameplay points: 6451
Perf. points: 452
Rec. points: 1507
Misc points: 1499

Point	Description	Importance
Intuitive Design & Quality-of-Life Description The game is praised for its user-friendly interface, intuitive controls, and gentle learning curve, making it accessible to newcomers. Numerous quality-of-life features and a forgiving design philosophy enhance the overall player experience. Importance 89%	The game is praised for its user-friendly interface, intuitive controls, and gentle learning curve, making it accessible to newcomers. Numerous quality-of-life features and a forgiving design philosophy enhance the overall player experience.	89%
Creative Problem-Solving Gameplay Description Players highly value the game's core loop, which blends creative design, complex problem-solving, and logistical challenges, fostering a deep sense of engagement and mental stimulation. It offers endless opportunities for experimentation and optimization. Importance 84%	Players highly value the game's core loop, which blends creative design, complex problem-solving, and logistical challenges, fostering a deep sense of engagement and mental stimulation. It offers endless opportunities for experimentation and optimization.	84%
Deep Factory Automation & Design Description The game excels in its intricate factory building and automation mechanics, allowing players to design, optimize, and scale industrial empires. The first-person perspective enhances the visual satisfaction of watching complex production lines operate and grow. Importance 76%	The game excels in its intricate factory building and automation mechanics, allowing players to design, optimize, and scale industrial empires. The first-person perspective enhances the visual satisfaction of watching complex production lines operate and grow.	76%
Stunning World & Rewarding Exploration Description The game features a beautifully hand-crafted open world with diverse and visually stunning biomes. Exploration is highly rewarding, offering valuable resources, hidden secrets, and a welcome break from factory building. Importance 69%	The game features a beautifully hand-crafted open world with diverse and visually stunning biomes. Exploration is highly rewarding, offering valuable resources, hidden secrets, and a welcome break from factory building.	69%
Highly Addictive & Engaging Description Players consistently report the game's extreme addictiveness, leading to hundreds of hours of playtime and a constant desire to return. Its captivating gameplay loop makes time fly by unnoticed. Importance 44%	Players consistently report the game's extreme addictiveness, leading to hundreds of hours of playtime and a constant desire to return. Its captivating gameplay loop makes time fly by unnoticed.	44%
Dedicated Devs, Continuous Updates Description Reviewers commend the developers for their transparency, active community engagement, and consistent delivery of significant updates. This ongoing support, including quality-of-life improvements and new content, has greatly enhanced the game. Importance 32%	Reviewers commend the developers for their transparency, active community engagement, and consistent delivery of significant updates. This ongoing support, including quality-of-life improvements and new content, has greatly enhanced the game.	32%
Aptly Named "Satisfactory" Description Many players feel the game truly lives up to its name, consistently delivering a deeply satisfying and fulfilling experience across its various gameplay elements. Importance 23%	Many players feel the game truly lives up to its name, consistently delivering a deeply satisfying and fulfilling experience across its various gameplay elements.	23%
Strong Sense of Accomplishment Description Players consistently highlight the immense satisfaction derived from seeing their meticulously planned factories and automated systems function flawlessly, providing a powerful sense of achievement and pride. Importance 14%	Players consistently highlight the immense satisfaction derived from seeing their meticulously planned factories and automated systems function flawlessly, providing a powerful sense of achievement and pride.	14%
Balanced Combat & Difficulty Description The game features alien fauna that provides a touch of danger during exploration, but combat is balanced and manageable. Players appreciate the option to adjust creature aggressiveness for a more relaxed experience. Importance 10%	The game features alien fauna that provides a touch of danger during exploration, but combat is balanced and manageable. Players appreciate the option to adjust creature aggressiveness for a more relaxed experience.	10%
Rewarding Progression System Description The game offers a well-paced and highly satisfying progression system, where each unlocked tier, technology, or upgrade feels earned and provides a tangible sense of accomplishment, motivating continuous play. Importance 9%	The game offers a well-paced and highly satisfying progression system, where each unlocked tier, technology, or upgrade feels earned and provides a tangible sense of accomplishment, motivating continuous play.	9%