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  "path": "/a-former-rockstar-dev-is-making-a-satisfactory-style-survival-game-about-doomed-expeditions-on-a-strange-planet",
  "publishedAt": "2026-02-09T16:48:37.000Z",
  "site": "https://www.rockpapershotgun.com",
  "tags": [
    "Action Adventure",
    "Indie",
    "PC",
    "Survival & Crafting",
    "Exploration",
    "Single Player",
    "Story Rich",
    "Aethus",
    "Bird view / Isometric",
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  "textContent": "Aethus is a crafty new sci-fi survival game in which one woman and her flying drone pal excavate a layered underground world on behalf of a galactic megacorp. You’ll create a surface base from holographic modules, gather evidence about a doomed science expedition, research a wacky new element, and unearth the dirty secrets of your employer.\n\nIt sounds a lot like Coffee Stain’s Satisfactory, with opportunities for automation later on, but it’s viewed from an elevated third-person perspective, and appears more narrative-driven. Satisfactory through the eyes of Diablo? I can - as we space miners like to say – 'dig it', though I’m quite weary of games about being the lonely stooge of some breezily villainous extraction racket. This particular seam of satire has long since been gutted. I am ready for games in which we go to other planets for Nice reasons. I feel like that ought to be possible. Anyway, here’s a trailer.\n\nRead more",
  "title": "A former Rockstar dev is making a Satisfactory-style survival game about doomed expeditions on a strange planet"
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