A game that should carry an addiction warning — the most satisfying factory-builder on Xbox is pure video game joy

A Pioneer character in an orange jump suit with an orange helmet sits on a piece of factory equipment. The text "Satisfactory 1.0" is on the right side of the image in blocky, stylized font.

There used to be a time when fans of strategy and simulation games were stuck playing exclusively on PC, but in recent years, the genre has really started to grow with fresh support for consoles. In some instances, it has hardware support, like the ability to use mouse and keyboard input on Xbox. In other instances, the ability for a strategy sim to leap to console required a little more effort on the devs' part to create a UI that was controller and big-screen-friendly.

One of the more recent strategy sims to cross over from PC exclusivity to launch on consoles is Satisfactory. This first-person strategy simulator with an open world was incredibly popular on PC during its extremely lengthy Early Access period — racking up over 123,000 reviews that are Overwhelmingly Positive on Steam in the time since its 2019 debut.