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PC Gamer
Wes Fenlon

The best-named game of all time nearly could've been called something else because some of its developers hated the pun

Character in space suit looking at a bright light.

If you're here ready to debate my declaration of "the best-named game of all time," I'm going to suggest you've never played Satisfactory, because it embodies its name perfectly. It's the kind of pun you write on a white board to cause an entire room to spontaneously groan, because everyone wants to roll their eyes but also knows they'll never better it. When the developers at Coffee Stain were first working on Satisfactory, though, they weren't all in agreement that the name was destined. In fact, it was a bit of a fight.

"This was before I worked at Coffee Stain, but I know the story," community manager Snutt Treptow said in a recent interview with PC Gamer. "When we were brainstorming we had a bunch of ideas, a bunch of different names. Satisfactory ended up being one of the names that stuck with some people. And some people really hated this name."

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