As employees of FICSIT Inc. enterprising space Pioneers are tasked with charting and exploiting a vast and diverse alien planet to construct and automate intricate multi-story factories for a mysterious unknown purpose. Players must also defend themselves against hostile alien lifeforms, automate vehicles and research new technologies to keep improving their constructs.

Satisfactory lands today with three different biomes on a vast handcrafted world (30km2) full of varyingly hostile alien creatures and six tiers of milestones that unlock machines, resources and equipment. The Early Access launch also offers multiplayer and vehicles with automation capabilities. The live development roadmap already outlines two new updates scheduled for the end of April and May that will bring new milestone tiers, research chains for sulfur and quarts, and a train to transfer your resources between outposts.

Over the festive period, Coffee Stain Studios announced that Satisfactory has now sold over 5 million copies of the game globally.

The Swedish team posted on the 24th December, they announced this incredible new milestone and teased new content soon for the hit-factory building simulator.

This news comes after the games recently released Update 8 which made the game one of the first indie titles to upgrade to Unreal Engine 5, heralding a new era of visual and performance enhancements to the game.

The shift to a new version of the Unreal Engine enables a range of performance and visual upgrades which will continue to be fine-tuned overtime. Players can enable Unreal Engine 5’s global illumination lighting, better known as Lumen, for stunning lighting quality. This new feature uses sophisticated techniques to provide more accurate and realistic lighting.

Satisfactory is currently available in Early Access through the Epic Games Store and Steam Early Access for $29.95/€29.99.