Satisfactory is a first-person open-world factory building game with a dash of exploration and combat. Play alone or with friends, explore an alien planet, create multi-story factories, and enter conveyor belt heaven!
I've avoided looking into it much...if I got it for a friend, is a dedicated server worth it? I did not love the Palworld dedicated server experience because sometimes we'd go days without playing and our pals starved (until we reduced the hunger rate)
if you plan on only playing together, you can just play peer to peer easily. (similar to palworld)
this works just fine
if you want to play seperately alone on the same world, then yeah, server up. but one probably just end up getting super ahead in the game and leaves the other buddy behind and confused/overwhelmed. The learning curve needs to be experienced in its entirety to maximise fun.
if all participants are experienced players, then a server makes sense