Satisfactory
BANGER · Strategy · 2024
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $39.99.
- Length
- 107.2h
- Value
- $0.37/hr
- Reviews
- 97% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, 20 GB of storage. Windows only.
Satisfactory is a first-person open-world factory building game with a dash of exploration and combat. Play alone or with friends, explore an alien planet, create multi-story factories, and enter conveyor belt heaven!
What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
March 2024 is where it bottomed out, at $14.99. Its cuts run 30 percent off as a rule. There have been 47 in the 6 years tracked, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 10 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 6 weeks.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 1 percent on value. It is pricier than 99 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. The nearest things to it, Hydroneer ($14.99, scores 71) and Factorio ($35.00, scores 97), are both worse buys on this math.
Steam's global achievement data says about 6 percent of players ever finish it. On a 107.2-hour game, that is a lot of paid-for hours most people never see. Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 11 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written February 2026 to September 2026. That is fewer refunded reviewers than 8 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 2,864 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 2,457 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 75 percent of the 3,947 reviews written there were positive, against 97 percent overall, and those are 2 percent of everything written about it.
107.2 hours to finish it, 222 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 2.1 times the campaign.
278,903 people have reviewed it, which is a big enough crowd to settle the number.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating, which is the one that means it just works.
The drop-off
56% start to 6% finishMost players never reach the end. On a 107.2-hour game, that's a lot you pay for and may never use. Steam global achievements
Players
12.6K players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
This game is a corporate hostage situation disguised as a factory builder. I bought it thinking I would casually build a few machines. It is now 4:00 AM, I haven't blinked in two hours, and my caffeine intake is legally concerning. Why You Will Lose Your Job and Marriage The FICSIT Corporation: They do not care about your health. They only care about productivity. You are an unpaid intern on an alien planet, and you...
Come home from work and settle down for another 8 hours of work. This game is mentally addictive, bring in your friends and start a slave labour work force eventually you might please the Fixit gods
Thought with the name like "Satisfactory" the goal and premise of the game would be creating a satisfying factory. HOWEVER- Game seems to deliberately make decisions to make your experience as unsatisfying as possible Issue 1 - The combining tree : I was not really a fan of the resource tree and how it functions. Resources require other resources that require other resources. Some need to go through the processor 5...
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Satisfactory scores 98/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/526870/satisfactoryThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 4, price as of Sep 24.
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