Last year's addictive co-op building game, Satisfactory, is 30% off in Humble's Cyber Monday sale

There are few joys quite like turning an alien planet which was doing just fine without us into a beautifully organised industrial nightmare… and Satisfactory, one of the best building games of last year, remains the king of that oddly meditative fantasy. Thanks to the Humbl Store's Black Friday / Cyber Monday sale dropping the price by 30%, now is a perfect time to dive into one of PC gaming's most hypnotic factory-building sandboxes.

For the uninitiated, Satisfactory is one more addition to a long list of factory-building games, a trend you can trace back to Factorio. You're dropped onto a colourful extraterrestrial landscape and tasked with building, optimizing, and expanding an enormous automated production network. It sounds dry, and then suddenly you're awake at 3am, redesigning your conveyor belts because the iron plates aren't flowing elegantly enough. It grabs you gently by the hand and then quietly steals your entire weekend. This is normal. This is the way.

This game is all about automation: you gather resources, move them from one place to another, and refine them into more and more complex items. This allows you to explore, build vehicles, and create fancy tools. Objectives take the form of complex constructions, which lead you to unlock the next series of things to build. You get the gist. There are quests but really the game is designed around building - people call it an "Amazon warehouse simulator" for a reason.

You can be as organised and messy as you want. It's easy to get lost in it because once you discover a bottleneck, you can spend hours figuring out how to prevent that from happening again. You can build vertically, horizontally, chaotically, or with military-level symmetry. The game doesn't judge, it simply encourages your spiralling ambitions with bigger challenges and shinier machines. Its first-person perspective also makes factory building feel surprisingly tactile. When you lay down a new power grid or watch a perfectly calculated production line spring to life, you feel it in your bones.

There's also a lot of fun to be had wreaking industrial havoc with your friends. Satisfactory's co-op mode turns the experience into a kind of collaborative fever dream. ("Please stop rerouting the copper. I'm begging you.")

If you had been longing for a mix between Minecraft and Factorio with better graphics, you have it. You can get it on Humble for $27.99  / £23.45 instead of $39.99 / £33.50. This deal is only available until Thursday, December 4th, 2025, so make sure you get it before then if you're interested.

Beyond Satisfactory, Humble's Black Friday / Cyber Monday sale includes plenty of other juicy discounts across strategy, survival, and sim games - but really, this is the crown jewel for anyone who loves systems, structure, or the intoxicating hum of machinery behaving exactly as it should. Hey, each to their own.