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Satisfactory hits 5.5m sales after five years of early access, 1.0 due "this year"


As acclaimed first-person automation sim Satisfactory inches closer to the fifth anniversary of its early access launch…

As acclaimed first-person automation sim Satisfactory inches closer to the fifth anniversary of its early access launch, developer Coffee Stain Studios has revealed it's eyeing up a version 1.0 release "this year", and that the game has now sold over 5.5m copies. Satisfactory released into early access back in March 2019 - initially as an Epic Games Store exclusive before making the jump to Steam the following year - and it quickly made a splash thanks its co-operative, open-world spin on the automated resource exploitation loop popularised by deeloper Wube Software's much-loved Factorio. Coffee Stain teases that Satisfactory's version 1.0 will include a "never-seen-before narrative alongside a factory-load of new features", and says development "will not end once the game leaves early access".

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