A satisfactory result, indeed
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The winner of this year’s PC Game of the Year at the Golden Joystick Awards is none other than Satisfactory.
This year has been one with plenty of momentum for Satisfactory. Following the simulation game’s big 1.0 launch, strong reviews that landed with anaggregate 91 score on Metacriticled to asurge of players.In fact, over on Steam, Satisfactory hit a concurrent player count record over five times larger than its Early Access peak.
“Before this week our highest CCU [concurrent users] on Steam was 34K,” the official Satisfactory Twitter account said at the time. “I can’t tell you how crazy this is to me. Thank you everyone!”
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