Both celebrate industrialization and the exploitation of the natural world as heroic undertakings without any regard to the value of nature.

Not really much to spoil, but just incase anyone cares: spoilers.

Haven’t played Factorio, but Satisfactory is definitely NOT presented as your character being heroic or glorious. Your character is constantly berated for being too slow to meet expectations, too stupid to understand what’s going on around them, and basically just constantly being treated as a tool. There is a ‘save humanity’ angle but it’s floated as pretty obvious bullshit to try to milk a bit of motivation out of your character that’s basically a slave whose interests the company doesn’t give a single fuck about, by hitting you with over the top messages like “Remember all of Earth is counting on you, to include millions of kittens and/or puppies.” Even when attacked by hostile wildlife, the indicator that you’re taking hits doesn’t even say YOU are taking hits, but makes a little popup notifying you of something akin to ‘unauthorized damage to company property detected’ lol.

I took it as being critical of that hyper-corporatism by depicting it as cranked up to a comical level.

They even slipped in some real world politics by unlocking the “Cyberwagon” in response to doing something stupid in game. It’s a Cybertruck, which is stupid-expensive in game, has only a single inventory slot, handles like shit, has broken windows, and my favorite jab: is literally only capable of turning right. So, if you wanted a good indicator for where the devs’ heads are at, there ya go.

I’d definitely recommend it.