Satisfactory

Fans and critics alike complain about pipes. They describe pipes that stop flowing for no visible reason, fluid "sloshing," junctions that will not snap, a 600-per-minute cap that forces endgame builds into many parallel lines, and no easy way to dispose of excess fluids. "conveyors from heaven and pipes from hell 9/10," one reviewer summed up. Several say the game never explains how fluids behave, with one player who gave up at oil saying "you need a damn doctorate in fluid dynamics to understand what is going on." Some veterans note workarounds, such as pre-filling pipes or packaging fluids, and a few report that 1.2 improved things.

A smaller group reports problems that grow with the factory: crashes during autosave, saves that become too large to load, frame drops near dense builds, and DirectX 12 or Vulkan launch crashes that only a switch to DirectX 11 fixed. One player who calls it a favorite game wrote that once the factory gets large and complex, "it then it just crashes and crashes and crashes." After 1.2, several reviewers report the game no longer launches on Linux through Proton or on the Steam Deck, and one Linux player said the update "made the game unusable on Linux, even though it worked before." Others report lower frame rates after the move to Unreal Engine 5 and blur from upscaling, and some ask for a way to stay on an older version, especially for mods.

Players who build at scale say blueprints are too small and too fussy. "6x6 should not be end-game and they are too small still," one wrote, and a recurring complaint is that you must rebuild a design inside the blueprint designer: "You can't just select something you've already built and save it." Reviewers also mention blueprints not auto-connecting belts, flipping orientation when chained, being stored locally rather than with the save, and the 50-item limit on mass dismantling. Related building gripes include no curved foundations or roads, finicky snapping of belts to splitters, and the first-person view making large layouts hard to see until the hoverpack.

Hand-crafting, feeding biomass burners by hand and blowing fuses before coal power make the opening hours the hardest stretch for several reviewers. "the second you unlock coal power everything will be better," one advised. A smaller group of critics say the game explains too little about power, belts, fluids and trains, and that they learned through trial and error or YouTube. One detailed negative review asked the game to "teach me its grammar so that I can use that grammar creatively." Other fans say the tutorial and pacing eased them in well.

Clients get the worst of it, according to players who report co-op bugs: "Non-host players frequently experience severe lag or get kicked from the server." Other reports include desync, invisible structures after blueprinting, lost inventories on joining, a hoverpack that keeps rising, crashes when a friend joins, and dedicated servers that are hard to set up or keep stable. Some reviewers say solo play avoids most of these issues.

Trains are loved once they work, but signals confuse some players, and a few report that updates broke working networks or merged signal blocks. One reviewer said players will see the message "Next stop is unreachable" a lot, "without any idea what went wrong." Players also ask for alarms, better remote management, and clearer machine status lights.

A handful of players lost everything to falling out of bounds or dying while recovering an earlier death crate. "if you die recovering your loot box from a previous death, you lose that original loot box," one wrote, and others complain that the death crate's delete-all button has no confirmation.

Some players bought expecting PC and console crossplay and found it missing, with one player whose dad had bought it on PS5 writing that it "can't crossplay across ps5 to pc and it's called a cross play game." A few report the game will not run without an internet connection, and Mac players ask for a native version.

Long-time players want more: new maps or a procedurally generated option, more creature types, curved foundations, more decoration pieces, a male body option in character customization, and an end-of-game goal beyond the final phase. These come from players who like the game and want more of it.

A few reviewers think the price is high for what it offers or complain about regional pricing, and some reacted badly to what reviewers describe as an announced paid DLC: "paid dlc for already expensive game, no thanks." Others say they are looking forward to the DLC, and more reviewers call the game worth the price than complain about it.