r/Steam • u/dabor11 • 4h ago

Fluff What game surprised you how long it was?

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u/McMillis 3h ago

For me the big “holy shit this isn’t the game I thought it was” was when I was forced to seek out oil for the first time, I didn’t even realize I’d be leaving the grassy plains at that point for the whole playthrough.

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u/John_Rain 2h ago

Yep, when you send ping and thing it is broken, only for it to ping 30s later

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u/McMillis 1h ago

Exactly this, it was oil for me, broke the game wide open in the best way for me

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u/happy-technomancer 2h ago

Yes! And the 4 different "game start" locations are all just different places in a single massive, beautiful map!

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u/xSTSxZerglingOne 50m ago edited 42m ago

I hope spoiler tags work here...for others. Like seriously, don't spoil yourself on this one if you plan on playing the game. If you HAVE played the game to completion or have gotten near the end of the game (at least nuclear power) then go ahead and read what I wrote and try it yourself in case you missed it.

Satisfactory gave me the greatest sense of wonder of any game I've ever played. The reason is not because of the game's literal beauty, but how completely planned everything is. When the game asked me to seek out nitrogen, I took the closest one that showed up. They even go so far as to tell you "hey, this stuff doesn't require pumps." So your first instinct, as you've learned so far in the game, is to build up and take it through the sky like you have been for the past 10-15 hours when you figure out the ground is very hostile. And then you reach this point where you're looking at the tallest mountain in the game (because they knew you'd build your base over there, because they fucking planned it that way) from the ramp you're building up to the sky to transport your new resource through pipes and there's this beautiful echo. There is this plateau between the nitrogen and the tall mountain that has a bunch of the curvy lines going between various areas, and you realize that it's basically a scale model of what you've built so far. I stood there literally 10 minutes in awe. My paths between the resources stretching up high in nearly the same arcs that were shown on the plateau. I am not sure any game will ever instill that level of pure wonder the same way. It was life changing.

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u/McMillis 11m ago

I can relate man, thanks for sharing that and nice use of the spoiler text (worked fine on my end)