55 hours into The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy, Too Kyo Games' visual novel turn-based strategy game, I encountered a particularly touching scene. Two characters, who a few days earlier learned something particularly shocking--one of several moments in the game that recontextualizes the whole experience--get up early and end up watching the sun rise together. It's a little moment of tranquility, of two people bonding over natural beauty amid a particularly rough string of days, and it landed beautifully. It felt like the game was tapping into something a little deeper, a little more melancholic, than what I'd seen before.

According to online estimates of the game's total length, at the point I saw this scene, I had another 90-120 hours to go until I could really say that I'd "finished" the game, depending on my speed and patience. The name The Hundred Line refers to the number of days the students of Last Defense Academy have to defend their school for as waves of invaders periodically force them into tactical combat. But the name actually has another meaning that you uncover once those 100 days pass for the first time, about 30 hours into the game: This game has 100 unlockable endings, and to get the full picture, you'll want to see all of them.

The promise of 100 endings feels like the sort of marketing mistruth that pops up in a press release to play up how much the game is shaped by your choices. A game that claims to have 12 endings might actually mean four endings, each with a few minor potential variations. And yes, some of the endings in The Hundred Line are kind of cheating, or are very similar to each other--not every ending is created equal. But there really are 100 of them, consisting of 21 different "routes" that can all end at various different points.

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Saturday Super Day is a point and click exploratory choose your own adventure game that was prototyped in PowerPoint. You play as Bobbi who wakes on a mid 90s Saturday morning with a mission: To reach the computer lab at Scuttlebutt High School and back up an important project before the school servers get wiped for the summer. Embark on a lovingly handcrafted journey through Olympia WA. That's been packed to the brim with explorable content and characters.

On a remote island deep in the South Sea lies a notorious prison, home to the world's most dangerous (and most adorable) criminals. These aren't your average inmates; their crimes were so heinous they warranted maximum security and 24/7 robot surveillance! Unleash the mayhem in Pritto Prisoner, the charming and chaotic 4v2 escape party game where animal inmates use poopie and peepee to outwit robot guards. Choose your side in this hilarious prison break: pick from a diverse lineup of animals, like a gangster rabbit, influencer cat, and a penguin chef, or patrol the halls as no-nonsense robotic wardens equipped with a range of tools and gadgets! The great escape is on...and it smells like chaos!

A Sokoban-style puzzle game featuring 8-bit pixel art, chiptune soundtrack and 100 handcrafted levels. Step into the boots of the newest recruit of the Island Courier Guild and deliver enchanted parcels to seal points scattered across the ocean-touched isles. Play as Kai or Nami, and push, plan, and puzzle your way through a world of clever challenges to prove yourself as the next Master Courier!

I prefer to play my games without mods or console commands to get as close to the intended experience as possible. But sometimes something breaks and you need to reset your character, you have an accessibility need, or maybe you're just 1,000 hours into your game and aren't worried about doing stuff in-engine anymore. That's what console commands are for. Like any big crafting game should, Satisfactory has a variety of console commands available. Continue on for how to use those commands, and what cheats are available.

Before we dive in, cheating in Satisfactory isn't as simple and straightforward as we might hope. There are a variety of console commands available, but most of them pertain to user preferences. To use actual cheats, you'll have to install a mod.

How to use Console Commands

Look at the upper-right corner of your keyboard. You should see a key that has one or more of these characters: ~, `, or §. That last one is pretty standard on a lot of European keyboard layouts. Pressing this will bring up the console.

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The holy grail of Satisfactory is having a perfectly balanced factory, where everything made is used, with your storage emptying at the same rate it's being depleted. But that's not going to happen--you'll have extras. That's what the Awesome Sink is for.

What is the Awesome Sink?The Awesome Sink (with Moody Lighting)

The Awesome Sink is a building that exists to get rid of all of your extra stuff, rewarding you with tickets based on the complexity of the items. This building is entirely optional, but those tickets can be used in the Awesome Shop to buy things like new cosmetic building parts, walkways, vehicles, and more. There's some really useful stuff in there, so you'd be a fool not to put one up. See the official Satisfactory wiki page on the Awesome Shop for a complete list of available items and ticket values.

How does the Awesome Sink Work?

You can dump items into the Awesome Sink as quickly as conveyor belts can supply them, so if you have a production line that's pumping out materials at ultra-high volume just for this purpose, the Awesome Sink is ready. You can build multiple Awesome Sinks around your factory, the points they generate are universal to all Sinks, and you can print out your tickets from any Sink at any time. So it's smart to have a Sink in various areas of your megafactory, taking in extra items and turning them for profit. The higher complexity the item, the more points it will generate toward your next ticket. Further, tickets become more expensive with each one generatedFor example, an Iron Ingot generates just two points, while a Crystal Oscillator generates 3,072. A Thermal Propulsion Rocket will generate over 370,000 points.

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