My most-played game of the last 5 years is 30% off on Steam right now, alongside a ton of other factory games that can absolutely devour your life

This news story is as much a warning as it is a recommendation: The winner of PC Gamer's 2024 Best Sandbox award, Satisfactory, is currently 30% off as part of a new Steam sale following hot on the heels of the bigger summer sale.

I give Satisfactory my highest recommendation: as I wrote in our awards celebration last year, it "has the same endlessness as Minecraft, only trading the RPG-esque mechanics for the compulsive satisfaction of arranging conveyor belts at perfect 90 degree angles...