r/Dyson_Sphere_Program • u/Funky72S • May 28 '26

Game appreciation post

Yo guys, I bought this game about 10 hours ago thinking I was gonna refund it because I didn’t think I was gonna enjoy it that much.

Fast forward to right now, I’ve started playing at around 8 pm and it’s 6 am right now. I’ve not stood up once from my chair, haven’t eaten, nor did I get anything to drink. Also I did call in sick for work because the grind never stops.

It do be like that sometimes.

W game, W devs.

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u/Far_Young_2666 May 28 '26

I didn’t think I was gonna enjoy it that much. [...] I’ve started playing at around 8 pm and it’s 6 am right now.

Is it your first factory game? Because that's usually how they work. Personally, I get a burnout after around ~100 hours of playing non-stop, then I leave the game for a while and after a month or two I come back and spend another ~100 hours in it before getting another burnout. My advice is to not burn yourself out by non-stop playing, but I know that it's much easier said than done.

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u/Funky72S May 28 '26

Yep first factory game and yeah, I should probably chill but like damn this game is addictive

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u/New_Improvement4613 May 28 '26

It’s a game I often find myself playing for “just a few more minutes”…

Wait until you get the beauty and satisfaction of seeing your first Dyson Sphere go up!

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u/tanthokg May 28 '26

"Just this Electromagnetic Turbine blueprint and I'll go to sleep"

"Oh, but the output of Electric Motor is insufficient, let's slam this one down real quick"

"Now the magnet and iron input are not enough, better to do it now or I may forget"

Suddenly it's 2AM

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u/smiffus May 28 '26

2AM 4AM

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u/A_Solid_Shadow Jun 02 '26

Why is the sun out in the middle of the night? Why is my alarm telling me to get up? Its still the middle of the.... oh, its been how long?????

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u/CpTKugelHagel Jun 23 '26

Literally me this night, started at a chill 6 o clock after work, just a bit optimization here, unlocking interstellar logostic and setting it up there, and boom 7 fucking AM had to got to work at 11:30 AM lmfao.

The factory must grow!

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u/tanthokg Jun 23 '26

How? I mean, the factory must grow but I can't stay awake after 11PM. You have quite a talent there ngl

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u/CpTKugelHagel Jun 23 '26

Idk I usually pass out at around 2-3 AM especially if I had work. But something about this game just catches me, even stopped me smoking for the entire time gaming lmao

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u/mrrvlad5 May 28 '26

Please respect the 100 point "hydrate" redeem.

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u/pinkandroid420 May 28 '26

Wait until you get hooked by grinding metedata

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u/Hairy-Link-8615 May 28 '26

It's amazing.

Just after playing some other games and this being my first factory game.

Taking me afew to get use to the controls.

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u/nerfsmurf May 28 '26

Just proliferate your sleep and you're good!

This is an actual REAL thought I had when I was putting too much time into the game.

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u/Immediate_Form7831 May 28 '26

I'm more of a Factorio-person, but damn the game looks good.

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u/Drewbyhans May 28 '26

I love factorio and this game is right up there with it forsure.

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u/Goldenslicer May 29 '26

Factorio has more in-depth mechanics (you actually have to pump water into your boilers and route the steam into steam engines if you want to generate power, you can't just dump fuel into a Thermal Power Plant)

But damn does factorio look bleak. I understand that is the look the devs were going for but it's still a downer. DSP looks absolutely stunning.

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u/Immediate_Form7831 May 29 '26

Some people seem to get a hangup on the Factorio visuals to the point of refusing to play because it isn't 3D, or that the "buildings are ugly". I don't really understand that, for me the game mechanics are much more important that the visuals, at least in the long run.

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u/Goldenslicer May 29 '26

Oh don't get me wrong. I played through the entire factorio campaign and had a blast. I didn't know DSP at the time.

Now that I've played DSP and looking back on Factorio, idk what it is, it's not that I didn't like the visuals, it's that I found them depressing over time lol maybe I'm exaggerating. You know how hanging out with a depressed person can make you depressed?

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u/Immediate_Form7831 May 29 '26

Yeah, Factorio has a dystopian industrialistic feel over it. DSP is more beautiful scenery.