Epic Games store exclusive Satisfactory hits Steam on Monday 8th June.

Coffee Stain Studios' first-person factory building sim launches on Steam then in Early Access form.

In the video below, Coffee Stain programmer and community manager Jace Valetti explains why it has been hard for the studio to announce a concrete release date for Satisfactory until now, saying it was in part about avoiding crunch.

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Epic Games store exclusive Satisfactory is a massive sales success with over 500,000 units sold.

To be exact, 507,374 copies of the superb sci-fi factory sim have been sold since it launched on 19th March.

In a video, programmer and community manager Jace Valetti said Satisfactory is the best launch ever from developer Coffee Stain, which is behind Goat Simulator.

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Hands up how many of you used to pick spiders off their webs, and from dark corners in sheds, and plonk them overnight in a Millennium Falcon toy - with removable roof - so in the morning you could see which one emerged triumphant?

Come on, own up!

Don't be shy!

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Hands up how many of you used to pick spiders off their webs, and from dark corners in sheds, and plonk them overnight in a Millennium Falcon toy - with removable roof - so in the morning you could see which one emerged triumphant?

Come on, own up!

Don't be shy!

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The absolute last thing I want to do when landing on a beautifully unspoilt, lush and exotic alien planet is build a clunking, grey, smog-spewing factory. But that's what Satisfactory makes you do, that's what it's about, and it's both horrid and inspired.

You work for a company called FICSIT but you don't know much about it. All you really know are your orders: land in your drop pod, disassemble it using a kind of futuristic supermarket barcode scanner, then begin building your factory. No questions thank you. Do as you're told. And you will. You will because it's the game and you want to succeed at it.

You find your copper vein and mine it, then cobble together the other materials you need to build your all-important hub. It's a bit like your crafting bench in Minecraft (but there are other benches for parts and equipment). It takes no time at all. It takes no time at all to do much in Satisfactory. Harvesting and production are streamlined and unfussy. It's very satisfying - very, um, satisfactory.

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Satisfactory, the new game by Goat Simulator developer Coffee Stain Studios, will launch in early access 19th March, exclusively on the Epic Games Store (it is exclusive for 12 months - Coffee Stain has done a very nice Q&A video discussing the decision).

It's very different to Goat Simulator. Satisfactory is a bigger game about building epic factories across lush and exotic alien planets, you absolute monster. It's like a cross between No Man's Sky and Factorio, and the viewpoint being first-person really hammers home the scale of your creations - they're enormous!

You'll explore the planets to find new resources, including local wildlife and plantlife - which aren't always very friendly - and you can invite your friends in (up to four) if you so wish.

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