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On The Revolutionary Potential of Automation Games (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
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[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

In Factorio, the plot seems to be "you have crashed your space ship on an alien planet infested with giant dangerous insect like creatures. Build a rocket." The gigantic factory you end up building has two purposes: 1, to gather and produce the materials needed to make itself, and 2, to build parts for the rocket. You don't launch any goods into space to a hungry megacorp.

In Satisfactory, you do work for what appears to be a megacorp, except there's a little bit of what might be a twist ending, it's slightly ambiguous. At the beginning they say you're part of Operation Save The Day, Earth is in peril and you are part of an effort to save it. It rapidly becomes apparent that this isn't the (whole) truth, and it feels like a cheap, barely thought out reason to get you to obey.

spoilerTurns out, "Project Assembly" is to build a ship that will launch to some other planet elsewhere with clones aboard to do what you have done. So are we "saving the day" or are we just consuming all of creation like locusts?