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Photo by Richard Rodriguez/Getty ImagesI don’t know why factory building games tickle my brain so much, but they do. Something about making all the virtual little machines work efficiently to make a number go up just does something for me. Which means for the last week my brain has been consumed by the 1.0 release of Satisfactory.

Satisfactory is a factory building game developed and published by Coffee Stain Studios. The goal of the game is to slowly construct increasingly elaborate factories to produce advanced construction parts that are delivered to a space elevator for the purpose of “saving the day,” or so you are told. It differs from the flagship game in the factory genre, Factorio,…