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 developer Wube Software's much-loved Factorio.
In Satisfactory, Factorio's irresistably compulsive formula - in which you mine stuff to craft stuff that'll make mining more stuff easier so you can craft bigger stuff and so on - plays out in first-person across a vibrant, explorable sci-fi open-world, where up to four friends can work together to achieve their goals. It's a twist that's clearly resonated with people too, as Coffee Stain has now revealed Satisfactory has sold over 5.5m copies since early access began.