I’m coming up on three hundred hours into my current solo Satisfactory save with a couple factory builds yet to complete before I can “save humanity” or whatever.

But only a couple. I’m surprisingly close to done. Now that I’m most of the way through the “new” phase of the game (from an Early Access player’s perspective) I can consider how well the developers balanced the need to introduce further complications with each new milestone versus the need to not overwhelm the average player.

(Am I “the average player”? Good question.)

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