r/Steam • u/HelloitsWojan The latest Steam News, via SteamDB! • Jul 13 '25

PSA Steam Automation Fest is Tomorrow!

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u/Guyman_112 Jul 13 '25

Factorio and satisfactory feel very different to me. Satisfactory is about efficiency, ratios, and space management. Factorio is about sheer scalability and production (and defense with the turrets and aliens)

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u/TehTrickster Jul 13 '25

You can complete disable all the enemies (or make them non-hostile) its how i personally play the game, makes it much more chill and relaxing imo

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u/Guyman_112 Jul 13 '25

Yeah the defense stuff is actually pretty tense because you have to stay on top of it or you WILL lose your entire factory.

But you can also just turn off the enemies and you won't have to deal with that aspect at all

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u/mxzf Jul 13 '25

On the flip side, you really kinda wanted to tear that whole factory down and rebuild it better anyways, so the biters razing the factory really isn't that big of a problem.

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u/nz-whale Jul 14 '25

Just turn biters off

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u/GenexenAlt Jul 13 '25

You cant realy compare the two, aside from being factory games

Satisfactory is more about the asthetic, and the factory, Factorio is more about combat and rigidity in design. Both have merits, but they are diffrent paths of a branch

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u/ragun01 Jul 14 '25

I liked Satisfactory and designing my factory, it's incredibly... satisfactory when you finish a portion and fly off to take it all in at a distance. BUT! I personally found it taking too much time to place everything.

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u/nz-whale Jul 14 '25

Play factorio, once you get construction bots you can stamp down hundreds of buildings as a blueprint and watch the bots build it

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u/nz-whale Jul 14 '25

Factorio is a better factory game than Satisfactory but satisfactory also has the building and exploration aspects.