Action · February 28, 2019

Space Engineers (2019)

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Space Engineers is an open world sandbox game about designing, building and testing your own space machines. Construct ships, stations and planetary bases in a fully destructible environment, then explore planets and space, mine resources, survive hazards and engage in combat alone or with friends in Creative or Survival modes. Play solo or in multiplayer, from small co-op outposts to huge community servers. Start with a simple lander, grow into a mining and industrial empire, or focus on warships and planetary fortresses – the game gives you the tools and physics, you decide what to build. Space Engineers uses a volumetric physics engine: every block and voxel has mass, inertia and damage. Ships break apart, stations crumble and terrain can be drilled, carved and reshaped, so your engineering choices really matter. Space Engineers is grounded in real engineering and hard science fiction, driven by realism and plausible near-future technology. Think modern space programs extrapolated into the future: realistic ships, stations, tools and systems where everything is built and simulated block by block. It’s about the machinery you build, not about magic or scripted set-pieces. Why play Space Engineers (SE1) now? 10+ years of active development with many free updates every year – and still ongoing Huge Steam Workshop with thousands of ships, bases, mods, scripts and scenarios Stable, feature-rich sandbox ideal for long-term saves and big community servers All DLC is cosmetic-only – everyone plays with the same gameplay Active player base, dedicated servers and modding community Core features Build anything Design and pilot small and large ships, asteroid stations and planetary bases Over 200 functional blocks: thrusters, rotors, pistons, turrets, conveyors, production blocks and more First- and third-person building, symmetry tools and blueprints for fast large-scale construction Manual building in Survival: weld to assemble blocks, grind to disassemble and reuse components Fully destructible world Voxel planets, moons and asteroids with atmospheres, gravity and climate zones Drill, cut and blast terrain; carve tunnels, craters and underground bases Ships and structures take block-by-block damage and can break into pieces Deformable and destructible objects with real mass, storage capacity and integrity Play your way Creative – unlimited resources, instant building, no death Surviva – manual assembly, resource and power management, death/respawn Singleplayer or multiplayer (co-op or competitive) with privacy settings and dedicated servers Scenarios, Workshop worlds and custom worlds so you can start in exactly the kind of universe you want Endless replayability Super-large worlds with procedural asteroids and exploration encounters Exploration systems that add ships and stations to discover, capture and conquer Visual Script Editor to create your own missions, game modes and campaigns Cargo ships, factions and AI-controlled threats to interact with – or defend against   Modding & scripting Deep Steam Workshop integration for worlds, blueprints, mods and scripts Modding API in C# to change game behaviour and add new systems Programmable block for in-game automation and custom logic Support for custom textures, models and many other mod types Systems & survival Electricity, power grids and generators powering your entire base or ship Oxygen and hydrogen for life support and thrusters Weapons and combat blocks for ship-to-ship battles and base defense GPS, remote control, voxel hands, controller support and more quality-of-life tools Extensive language support with official and community localizations

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192 Action titles launched in 2019 — top 6 by review volume.

Position in Action

MetricThis titleGenre position
Review volume132.3k Steam reviewsTop 5% in Action
Positive rating89% positiveGenre average: 83% — this title sits in top 41%
Concurrent peak4.2k playersTop 4% in Action by live player count
Engagement hours99 h averageTop 3% for session depth among Action

Community Tag Signals

Tag weights reflect how many Steam users voted each descriptor — larger pills = stronger consensus.

  • Space · 3.7k
  • Sandbox · 3.1k
  • Building · 2.8k
  • Open World Survival Craft · 2.4k
  • Multiplayer · 2.4k
  • Survival · 1.9k
  • Simulation · 1.9k
  • Open World · 1.8k
  • Physics · 1.6k
  • Crafting · 1.5k
  • Destruction · 1.3k
  • Co-op · 1.2k
  • Futuristic · 1.1k
  • Sci-fi · 1.1k
  • Indie · 1.1k

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Features & Capabilities

Multiplayer

  • Multi-player
  • PvP
  • Online PvP
  • Co-op
  • Cross-Platform Multiplayer

Community

  • Steam Achievements
  • Steam Workshop
  • Steam Cloud

Input & Comfort

  • Partial Controller Support

Other

  • Single-player
  • Includes level editor
  • Family Sharing

Localization Coverage

Interface / Subtitles (12)

  • English
  • German
  • Spanish - Spain
  • Czech
  • Danish
  • Dutch
  • Polish
  • French
  • Italian
  • Finnish
  • Hungarian
  • Norwegian

Press Quotes

“Space Engineers bring you back to your childhood when you were fighting with your LEGO ships.” 9/10 – SCORE “Space Engineers makes welding, joining and glazing seem like the best jobs in the world. It looks superb.” Rock Paper Shotgun “Buy, unless you are bereft of even the slightest shred of creativity” PCGamesN

Reception Metrics

Steam community

89%Very Positive · 132.3k reviews

117.8k positive · 14.6k negative

Curator recommendations

101.0k

Peak concurrent players

4.2k

Engagement Profile

All-time avg

99h

substantial (40–100 hours)

Median

16h

Typical completion time

2-week avg

14h

Current engagement

Achievements

30

Steam unlocks available

Release & Availability

Release dateFeb 28, 2019
DeveloperKeen Software House
Base price$9.99 -50%
DLC / Add-ons18 released
PlatformsWindows
Estimated owners1M–10M
External linksOfficial site · Support · [email protected]

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