Hey! Maybe limiting FPS could help here 🤔
You could find it in Settings> Graphics> Target FPS. It can be set to Unlimited as default - I turned it down, and it worked for me. Let me know if that helps!

It helped a little bit, I had to go down to 60 FPS to bring the temperature below 90. Still peaked at 87 and all 12 of my cores are heating up. Why is this more demanding than running a Megabase in Factorio or something like Hellblade?

I'm glad it helped at least a little. I think it depends on the optimization — our developers did their best to optimize the game, but at the end of the day, it will run differently on every computer :/

It's a AMD Ryzen 9 5900X 12-Core Processor if that helps. Thanks for quick replies, though, on steam no less :)

Originally posted by puschit:

It's a AMD Ryzen 9 5900X 12-Core Processor if that helps. Thanks for quick replies, though, on steam no less :)

My computer isn't even close to your and I have absolutely zero heating issues.

That's why I am puzzled, it's only this game where I ever got over 90. Until then I did barely every hear the cooling fans.

I can definitely guarantee that the game is not running anything suspicious such as mining. I also have an 5900X and with CPU set to 140W limit (default) max I'm seeing is around 100W power consumption and in my case temperatures are around 60-65 degrees Celsius max. It's true that my rig is GPU bound in this case so maybe a better GPU will not limit the CPU and maybe it can run the game at maximum but even so 90 degrees is quite much. I mean, by default the game is set with v-sync off and thus will run the game with all the hardware resources it get to provide the maximum FPS but even so with good cooling that CPU should never get to 90 degrees.
Make sure you set vSync to on to limit the frame-rate to what your monitor can deliver but more than that, completely ignoring the game, any app that runs your CPU to the max should get that temperature out of it or even more and I would suggest you check if the cooling works as it should because those are clearly not very good temperatures for the CPU unless you unlocked PBO and everything on the CPU and let it free to consume over 140W. Ryzen Master allows you to control the max power of the CPU so you can check there what actually happens in terms of power consumption, temperature while testing the CPU limits.

my ♥♥♥♥ is hot as well

It's all about Unreal Engine. I mean whatever game you have it will always make the pc run at certain speed cuz your system is always active even when pressed esc or did alt tab. In Zoria if you do alt tab that makes a difference your system won't work at full which is nice. You just cant leave your pc running any with any UE engine assembled game cuz your pc will still run at full even in the esc menu.