It's still in early access and just dropped on Steam yesterday, but I've been following it for a long while -- drooling the whole time. I just picked it up last night and after a couple hours with it I can say it scratches the itch wonderfully.

No plot that I can discover (or at best, the thinnest of tissue paper plots). it's just an alien world sandbox that you can plop heavy industrial buildings on and cover with conveyor belts. As one Youtuber put so eloquently: "Watch out, nature, here comes the delicate touch of humanity!"

(To be fair his entire schtick is breaking the games he reviews in the most hilarious ways possible, but Satisfactory does make it particularly entertaining.)

But yeah! Fun times.

One of the aforementioned 'tuber's vids, for reference purposes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2X3wlvoShg

--sofaspud
--there's something strangely fulfilling about whacking that great big red button to send another load of your hard-earned resources off into the void