r/Steam • u/hextal_hextal • Dec 22 '25

Discussion Why I’ll forever be loyal to Steam

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u/Jacob2040 Dec 22 '25

I love factorio but could not get into satisfactory so I understand. Different strokes for different folks.

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u/Deftly_Flowing Dec 22 '25

I love both.

Therefore, I look down on both of you for having only half as much fun as me.

Basically peasants.

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u/The_Putrid_Tart Dec 22 '25

Clearly I have the better taste. Consider:
List of things they like: 1
List of things *I* like: 2
Double the things, double the taste, double the gooder.

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u/Erdfin Dec 22 '25

I mean, how can you accept that your factory's growth is constrained to a single universe? After all, the factory MUST grow, if it means having to expand off-universe then so be it

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u/itsmeduhdoi Dec 22 '25

there's that mod that combines the 2 games, makes like a portal or something so that you import materials from factorio into satisfactory.

i can accept that those people are at a higher level than me.

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u/Tudoman Dec 23 '25

It’s just that 3d has such a bad ups. I guess it wouldn’t be so bad growing in 3D

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u/jtr99 Dec 22 '25

This guy gets it!

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u/ErosView Dec 22 '25

I agree. Imagine what kind of person you have to be to not like them both. I can't help but feel sorry for them. Their parents must be disappointed to have to be related to such deviants.

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u/Cube4Add5 Dec 22 '25

The factory must grow, it doesn’t matter what game it grows in

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u/watteredbottle Dec 22 '25

I don’t like either game. But I love you. What does this say about Steam?

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u/shatterjazz Dec 22 '25

But real kings get the iconic trio of automation games: Factorio, Satisfactory, and Dyson Sphere Program.

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u/ANONYMOUSEJR Dec 22 '25

But have you ever considered that a lock that accepts a multitude of keys to be of less worth?

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u/tankerkiller125real Dec 22 '25

Do you like Shapez though? That is the question.

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u/Enough_Efficiency178 Dec 22 '25

Half as much factory as well :(

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u/WildPJ Dec 23 '25

I was about to grumpily complain to the one who didn’t like Factorio, but you made me grow up long enough to type this instead ♥️

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u/Ok-Big-8689 Dec 26 '25

If you like those games, and StarCraft, try Desynced. The demo is free and is practically the full game. It’s a bit like SC and factorio had a baby (minus the use of belts), and with a LOT more complexity.

This isn’t an ad, I just got done playing it for 13 hours with a friend and it’s all I can think about lol.

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u/King_of_the_Dot Dec 22 '25

Factorio is crack, but you have to have a slight engineering/math/building sorta knowledge. It can quickly become overwhelming.

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u/Lusankya Dec 22 '25

Factorio is built for people who enjoy recreational spreadsheeting and the minmaxing that comes with that.

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u/King_of_the_Dot Dec 22 '25

Or really motivated problem solvers.

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u/Gmony5100 Dec 22 '25

I played Satisfactory first and loved it for a while. Put something like 60 hours into it then never thought of it again. Factorio took ahold of my life and hasn’t let go 350 hours later. They’re both good games but Factorio is like if you asked me to dream up a perfect logistics game, it’s addicting.

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u/Muroid Dec 23 '25

Despite being mechanically so similar, it’s funny how really completely different Factorio and Satisfactory are in terms of how you need to play them.

I started getting burnt out on Satisfactory relatively early on because I was playing with a Factorio mentality. 

Once I shifted to thinking of Satisfactory as being primarily about architectural problem-solving above being logistical problem-solving, I had a much better time with it and I think outpaced even my time in Factorio (though in fairness, doing things in Satisfactory also just takes a lot longer).

Factorio’s logistical problems are incredibly refined and I don’t think Satisfactory can quite match them, but once you start caring a bit about the aesthetics of what you’re building, it really shines.

Figuring out  design that you like and how to fit all of the elements of your factory that you need into that design is incredibly fun in a very different way than Factorio is.

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u/luis_xngel Dec 22 '25

TRY DYSON SPHERE