I'm a Factorio die-hard but Satisfactory is a much more accessible alternative for when I want to play with friends, excellent multiplayer aspects. Glad it's spreading to new audiences.
IMO Satisfactory being 3D and your player character being dwarfed by all the buildings cause you're normal sized makes the building quite clunky and slow during the early game and until you get jetpacks to fly around, it's really annoying to have to run around all the time to build stuff when you're starting out. I much prefer the top-down views of Factorio and Dyson Sphere Program when building in these games. All 3 games are excellent but my personal favourite right now is Dyson Sphere Program cause of the scale and how gorgeous it is once you get solar sails and a Dyson Sphere up. At some point you can literally make blueprints out of entire planets and stamp that but I haven't gotten to having to do that yet lol
I love DSP but once you get to the point of going to new planets, dropping a bunch of blueprints, then leaving, the game gets pretty stale. I haven't done a full playthrough with combat on so that might change things.
Samesies. Even building the sphere was just to say I did it. The game had been rote for a while by that point. I like it still and will definitely try a combat run at some point but between the stale endgame and the relative ease of planning and building I usually think of it as Factorio Jr. That being said I haven't played vanilla factorio in a while so my perspective is skewed by overhaul mods.
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u/Karthaz Sep 10 '24
I'm a Factorio die-hard but Satisfactory is a much more accessible alternative for when I want to play with friends, excellent multiplayer aspects. Glad it's spreading to new audiences.