Factorio vs Satisfactory

[Sinnik]

Now that this game is officially released. Is this better than Factorio?

[Rotanen]

The Factorio developer is a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ so I boycott that game.

[Yoelrick]

Satisfactory : new 3D UE5
Factorio : old 2D Pixels with love

Both are great games.

I prefer Satisfactory in general.
In Factorio is easiest to manage massive factories with perfect 90° due to aerial view and zoom scale.

[Goblin]

Originally posted by Goblin:

For the most part, comparing different factory games is like comparing apples and oranges:
Satisfactory is for people who like theme parks and going at their own pace. Pretty world, infinite resource stream, build pretty things if you want, not focused on making big builds easy to make at all but way more on letting you do things your way.

Shapez 2 is for people who like engineering and re-engineering things. You have to rebuild things regularly, but it makes that at painless as possible because you can area-delete and build blueprints instantly. Only resource involved (optionally at that) is blueprint points. Eventual goal is to first have blueprinted "machines" that mass-perform operations, and later on build a massive machine that automates any based on what the game requests output (referred to by fans as a MAM) which is not entirely dissimilar to building a computer. As an aside, if you want that I recommend the game Turing Complete. But that's not related to factories so I digress.

Foundry is like a mix between Factorio, Minecraft, and Satisfactory, minus all combat. First person, resources start off finite, lategame you can get infinite ones and build some awesome looking stuff, infinite voxel world, etc.

Mindustry goes hard on the combat instead, testing your ability to build supply lines under pressure and defending against increasingly difficult waves on smaller maps, level based.

Captain of Industry is more like a Dwarf Fortress of factory builders, where you can run out of resources and/or screw yourself over, and with complex supply chains. Plus it has some city management aspects, if you're into that.

Dyson Sphere program is Factorio, but most would argue it's way prettier and it costs significantly less. The only downside is it doesn't have the mods Factorio has. Speaking of which:

Modded Minecraft. There's probably more factory progression modpacks than you have time in your life to complete them. You can pick how difficult you want it to be, from entry level to Gregtech-offspring, or even if you want magic themes or tech. Arguably the best value purchase you could make, if you had to pick one. Plus you get a normal mining and crafting game for free :P

Just realized I forgot a game: Techtonica. Not that I've played that one, so I only know surface level things about it. AFAIK it has infinite resource nodes and no enemies. And it has world deformation and mostly procedurally generated worlds. So it's somewhere between Satisfactory and Foundry, probably?

Anyone know any other factory games to add to the list?

[Anna]

No, they can't implement ctrl-c + ctrl-v in a factory building game for gods sake. I bet satisfactory devs never play their own game without cheats to begin with.

Factorio is a factory building game with hardcore automation, design and smooth progression.

Satisfactory is a game about placing cubes representing factories in a floating island of concrete above a beautiful landscape and connecting them according to a simple rules.

[Princeso Riku]

Both are great, Both have their own strengths. One of the thinks i like of factorio is the pve is better than this game, the constant menace and the "tower defense" mini-system is actually fun to me. On the other side of the coin i do enjoy the first person of satisfactory, this includes the visuals of my complete factory on vertical, the backgrounds and the complexity of a 3d world in terms of implementing a better factory.

Anyway, you can even set up a list of pros and cons, differences between them, but i have enough hours on both of them to say each one is unique and fun to play, try both yourself and have fun with it, dont let anyone tell you which one is better

[Anna]

Originally posted by MrM07:

The hell were you expecting? Its a building sandbox first and foremost. Always has been, CS has ALWAYS said this.

They promised Factorio in 3d with a story. They cut the story and can't implement the most basic features of Factorio.
Their integration with 3D sucks massevly. The factory is always disconnected from terrain apart from few redditors who play "connect concrete to terrain game" after beating the game instead of "factory building game". There are no tools to build in 3D without cheats or endgame stuff. Every beautiful factory is result of cheats or external tools, but usualy both.

They failed every single promice except for the big handcrafted 3D world. This part is great, their worldbuilding team is awesome, but all factory related stuff is garbage.

[Shahadem]

Originally posted by Anna:

No, they can't implement ctrl-c + ctrl-v in a factory building game for gods sake. I bet satisfactory devs never play their own game without cheats to begin with.

Factorio is a factory building game with hardcore automation, design and smooth progression.

Satisfactory is a game about placing cubes representing factories in a floating island of concrete above a beautiful landscape and connecting them according to a simple rules.

Factorio is also all about connecting objects based on SIMPLE RULES.

[cardzy]

Originally posted by Anna:

Originally posted by MrM07:

The hell were you expecting? Its a building sandbox first and foremost. Always has been, CS has ALWAYS said this.

They promised Factorio in 3d with a story. They cut the story and can't implement the most basic features of Factorio.
Their integration with 3D sucks massevly. The factory is always disconnected from terrain apart from few redditors who play "connect concrete to terrain game" after beating the game instead of "factory building game". There are no tools to build in 3D without cheats or endgame stuff. Every beautiful factory is result of cheats or external tools, but usualy both.

They failed every single promice except for the big handcrafted 3D world. This part is great, their worldbuilding team is awesome, but all factory related stuff is garbage.

Funny as I found the world the weakest part of the game. I'm curious though, how many hours do you have in the game? Also, where did they make this promise to be Factorio in 3d with a story? Would love to read that.

[mackster]

Two different games, IMO. Satisfactory is a factory game (its in the name). However, I almost think its in a genre on its own. I tried factorio and it just didn't get the bug there. Tho this game I am well over 1k hours now and its still like a new game (prior to 1.0).

I find it hard to pick a genre for this game, its a factory game, yes. Its also an exploration game, its a little bit of survival as you have to survive encounters with some of the beasts and gas clouds (not forgetting nuclear, which is what you make yourself) and its also a little RPG like too. Minecraft-ish as well?

I don't think it needs a genre - yeah open world 3d factory game is a title, but this is something else, a lot of something else. If I read the description and didnt own the game, I would think nah, thats not for me. Playing it makes me think how did I live without it

[ShelLuser]

Originally posted by Sinnik:

Now that this game is officially released. Is this better than Factorio?

Depends on who you're asking and where your priorities lie.

Factorio... 2D game for E 32,- with a E 7,- soundtrack DLC.

Satisfactory... 3D game for E39,- (rounded up, not taking discounts into mind either) and with a E 7,79 soundtrack DLC.

So... considering that this game is more expensive it also must be better, right? ;)

Seriously though... I tried Factorio once and I didn't like it one bit. I got into Satisfactory a few years ago and have been playing ever since. But a Steam friend of mine has the exact opposite experience.

Here's what I'd advice... check out the Satisfactory trailer, and then compare this to the Factorio trailer. Each to their own but the latter - to me - is just the same thing over and over and over again. I also doubt it has a toilet (= very important!) nor a package manager game.

You know... a video game which you can play while waiting for your factory to do stuff? Don't tell me you never played video games in your videogame? ;)

[MetalSpaceDust]

Love both. But enjoy Satisfactory more.

I also love Captain of industry.

[Froptus]

Both are great. Play both. DSP is excellent as is COI.

[Anna]

Originally posted by Shahadem:

Factorio is also all about connecting objects based on SIMPLE RULES.

Last game of Factorio I designed automated trading station that received trains from my side of the map, and exchange the goods to the goods from my friends side of the map based on the prices that we could set on our bases using combinators aftter both parties agreed. My supply lines always use one conveyor to deliver all 15 things that is required unless I want to go with the trains. In the new version I would be able to use the same pipe to deliver different liquids based on the rules and requirements. You could design a dosen of train network versions. Such class of things are impossible in Satisfactory.

It would be fine if they would make their key feature work. But you can't build in 3D in Satisfactory. I did a very good modular vertical factory layers in Satisfactory it was terrible, but I did it. It could even fit into blueprint designer, but then what? Connect tall vertical buildings manually? From the ladder? This is ugly inconvinient and the game give you no tools to do it enjoyable or at least tolerable way.

[Anna]

Originally posted by cardzy:

Funny as I found the world the weakest part of the game. I'm curious though, how many hours do you have in the game? Also, where did they make this promise to be Factorio in 3d with a story? Would love to read that.

I have about 250hours in Satisfactory.

About the promise to do Factorio in 3D - when you start a 3D factory building game EA right after THE factory building game just created this genre it's implied that unless you state it explicitly - you are doing a similar product.
They didn't say it in the beginning, but in one video their first community manager (probably speaking about constant blueprints requests from community) admitted that they always knew people expect 3D Factorio from them and that it is what they implied.

And they talked a lot about the story, frankly it was one of the selling points for me.

[Scorps75]

ones first person one isnt, they are not comparable really. same genre but different scope.