Satisfactory tips: How to make your factory way better than satisfactory | Gaming

I’m going to open this article with a controversial tip: Don’t play Satisfactory unless you have a surplus of free time, because it could plausibly derail your life. I mean it! One minute you think you’ll build some fun assembly lines, the next you’re 100 hours in thinking about erasing the last dozen hours of progress so you can add, like, one more notch of space between each building just to make your masterwork 5% more aesthetically pleasing. It’s a curse!

Okay, that’s out of the way—if you’re still here, you should absolutely play Satisfactory. As we said in our 90% review, it’s “the new titan in building and crafting games,” a mix of light survival with an incredibly powerful building toolset that rewards creativity just as much as math and optimization. There’s satisfaction to…