Oh, yeah, once you break down everything happening in Factorio or Satisfactory, it's pretty quickly apparent that you're the bad guy in this story. I often hum "Paved Paradise, put up a parking lot" while playing them.

Isn't colonialism sucking the between-the-lines premise of Factorio? You arrive on a new planet which already has a local population. You start collecting resources, building factories&shit there, polluting the hell out of the air around you. Locals get pissed and start attacking you, you kill them without ever considering them sentient beings. At some point, you also kinda have to also reduce everything and everyone within the range of your artillery to ashes - even before they become hostile. In the process you keep polluting the air until it is black with soot, destroy entire ecosystems for land or resources, turn water into sludge. The only thing missing to make it more realistic is enslaving the locals to work for you. It's really grim if you think about the gameplay that way.

It's pretty explicit. The local aliens attack you when aggravated by the pollution from your factory.

Slash-and-burn Agriculture