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Space Engineers
Developer Keen Software House
Space Engineers is a voxel-based sandbox game, developed and published by Czech independent developer Keen Software House. In 2013, the initial developmental release of the game joined the Steam early access program. During the following years of active development, Space Engineers sold over one million units. As of 2024, the game has sold over 5 million copies. From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
457 reactions from 4 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky, Mastodon, Lemmy) · newest Nov 5, 2026 · last updated Nov 5, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
72
Fresh
252 positive · 98 negative
95% range 67–76%
| Source | + | − | = |
|---|---|---|---|
| Steam reviews | 252 | 98 | 0 |
| Bluesky * | 30 | 4 | 53 |
| Mastodon * | 4 | 1 | 12 |
| Lemmy * | 0 | 0 | 3 |
* shown, not counted in the score (label accuracy below our 85% bar or not yet audited).
Steam's own rating
Very Positive
77,973 of 87,697 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What players are saying
69% recommend · 177 yes, 80 no
Counted from the reviewers’ own thumbs up/down on the 257 English Steam reviews we collected, not by the AI. Valve’s all-language rating: Very Positive (119,481 of 134,538 positive).
Players praise the game's creative freedom and depth, comparing it to Lego or Minecraft for adults. [1][2][3] Many complain about aggressive DLC paywalling, with most build menu items grayed out unless purchased. [4][5][6] Some note a steep learning curve and poor tutorials, but say the game rewards persistence. [1][7][8]
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Representative posts
- [4]
500hrs+ and I would love to recommend this game. The game itself is fun but in recent years it has become plagued by the DLC. I'm not even against the DLCs even despite the fact this game is slowly becoming The Sims 4. Its the fact that if you choose not to buy them the game will still try to shove them down your throat in a pretty scummy way. Normally in most games if you do not own the DLC you play the game …
- [5]
game is great, IF YOU HAVE 100 ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ DOLLARS TO EXPEND ON DLCs otherwise, it's the most barebones experience where you are kept away from building anything close to pretty, but constantly being teased by the blocks paywalled to you. i have most DLCs, at a time i had most, worst thing is how they divide them: want all TABLES? that is 4 DLCs, 4-5 bucks each. want all storage? another 4 DLCs they divide the blocks …
- [1]
I've played just a bit. This game has a hard learning curve. If you are new, go through all the tutorials, it'll help a ton, and look over the controls, as that'll help a lot as well. If you're looking for a reason to play the game, there is no other game where you can stretch your imagination like this. Build anything and everything, make it functional or silly or both. If you've hit a creative wall, start looking …
- [13]
It’s like Minecraft crashed into No Man’s Sky, where ship designs follow the Minmatar school of engineering (EVE Online: duct tape, prayers, and WD-40), the new player experience demands a physics master’s degree, the difficulty level sits slightly above a casual day in Dark Souls, and the learning curve feels like it was written by H. P. Lovecraft during a breakdown. The modding scene, the community, and the …
- [2]
This is a game for people who enjoy engineering creative solutions for it's own sake. There is almost endless possibility for the active mind. I didn't have the mental fortitude to make it that far on my initial playthrough, but I hope to one day build a a mobile space base in which smaller functional vessels can dock. A giant space whale containing everything from fighters to transports. I would name it Purrgil. I …
Summarised from 34 of the 337 public posts collected about this game; every point cites the posts behind it ([n] opens the post) and the split is counted from the posts’ own ratings. Updated Oct 11, 2026. How summaries are made
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Space Engineers sits at 72% positive across 350 opinionated reactions from 4 sources. Fresh or rotten — where do you land?
Critics, per Wikipedia
Space Engineers won the "4th best Indie Game of 2013" award from IndieDB, an honorable mention in the "Indie of the Year 2014" and first place in "Indie of the Year 2015".
From the “Reception” section of Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Critic context only — not part of the audience score.
Reactions
60 of 457 · most liked first500hrs+ and I would love to recommend this game. The game itself is fun but in recent years it has become plagued by the DLC. I'm not even against the DLCs even despite the fact this game is slowly becoming The Sims 4. Its the fact that if you choose not to buy them the game will still try to shove them down your throat in a pretty scummy way. Normally in most games if you do not own the DLC you play the game without the extra content, in Space Engineers however that content is still in the…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Titles leaving Game Pass in 2 weeks: -Yakuza 3 & 4 Remastered -Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun -Maneater -GRIS -Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty -Space Engineers -Paw Patrol World
neutral · AI labelView post →Hardest part about this game is finding friends autistic enough to play it with you.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Space Engineers is still a good game, but it's hard not to feel like Keen has spent the last few years turning it into a DLC machine. A lot of the DLC content could have easily been part of the base game instead of being split up and sold separately. What's even harder to understand is that Space Engineers 2 has been out for a while now, and there really hasn't been much to show for it. Updates have been slow, major features are still missing, and progress feels incredibly sluggish. Meanwhile,…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →While they've clearly hit something compelling here, it's a bit of a 7 Days to Die situation where an incompetent studio walked assbackwards into a good game idea, unable to bring it to fruition. The codebase is godawful resulting in terrible performance and bugs, and mods are doing the heavy lifting for a game that despite being years out of early access still feels like an early access tech demo in terms of design, performance, bugs, and aesthetic. Add to that the fact that the CEO of Keen…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Great game, but honestly, no I wouldn't recommend it. It's more of an engine for what COULD be a game that never was. There's nothing to do, most the mods require DLCs, and they expect all the actual effort to come from the community while they shovel a copy+paste game as a "second" edition.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →AstraX is a space exploration game inspired by the likes of KSP, Rimworld, Freelancer and Space Engineers. Create your own spacecraft, explore an infinite galaxy and mine for resources! #PitchYaGame
neutral · AI labelView post →One of my DIG-BOI arms broke off and I didn't want to rebuild/re-customize it. So, I reattached it via the refueling crane. (Space Engineers is a hell of a game.)
positive · AI labelView post →Rules to play. Start game Try to build awesome spaceship. Realise you don't know how to do that. Wander around for a awhile. You see something in the distance. Three people building a large space ship. Ask to join them. Shot in the face Theres only one thing left to do. Revenge You track them down,watching,waiting for a whole hour. When finally they leave their ship for a resource run. Fly into their ship and take control. Fly away as the enemy takes chase screaming that I'm a ♥♥♥ and a dead…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Hiya, just updating my portfolios for the sandbox game Space Engineers! You can see the rest on my Artstation #spaceengineers #space #hardsurface #dennelart
neutral · AI labelView post →game is great, IF YOU HAVE 100 ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ DOLLARS TO EXPEND ON DLCs otherwise, it's the most barebones experience where you are kept away from building anything close to pretty, but constantly being teased by the blocks paywalled to you. i have most DLCs, at a time i had most, worst thing is how they divide them: want all TABLES? that is 4 DLCs, 4-5 bucks each. want all storage? another 4 DLCs they divide the blocks between DLCs, even when that separetesthem in an impractical way, it's…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →There is a good game buried somewhere deep inside, but it's way overshadowed by developer's greed. The game gives you some basic tools to start building, but upon very first opening of the build menu you see that 90% of it is permanently grayed out, because it's all DLC content. Okay, I check in the store and turns out the total cost of DLCs as of the time of writing this reviews is 4x (FOUR TIMES) the price of the base game. This is some Paradoxical levels of greed The game has been in…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →feel like the first game to combine Satisfactory and Kerbal Space Program will make kajillions Dyson Space Program and Space Engineers are two halves of a picture that has yet to be assembled
neutral · AI labelView post →Really thought I could like this game, but couldn't get past even the basic parts of them. Coming from a background of steep learning curve games, this one didn't feel like I wanted to invest any time in, because I had lookup multiple things that should be obvious in a game like this. Basically, the user experience is not intuitive, so you end up searching for things that you shouldn't be searching for and should have been easily discovered in the game. Plus the latency is quite bad in…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Yeah I'm gonna come back some time in the future to try this game, definitely after watching a tutorial on youtube. I'm pretty sure this game has one of the absolute worst built-in tutorials.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Very scummy and annoying (at least for a beginner) when half the items in the creative inventory are greyed out to advertise the DLC they're from with no way to turn them off. Didn't make me want to buy the DLC at all (or the second game which I was considering buying), made me want to refund the game instead if I hadn't already spent more than 2 hours on it.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It would be fun if more than half of the stuff wouldn't be locked behind a paywall. Like a mobile game you need to pay to unlock all the options. But then why do I need to pay for the basegame?
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →i had lots of fun making a base, a big drill attached to my base, a big car thing to drill ores, a spaceship and stuff... but the biggest flaw is that there is no goal or challenge or quest to make you build vehicles around them, the fun screeches to a halt once you build a spaceship and leave the planet because you have nothing else to really do
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Are you looking to be hired by Keen to work on Space Engineers DLC?
neutral · AI labelView post →3061 hours and I still have much to learn I have tried to get my friends to play it One thing I can say is that this is not a game for everyone, oh no no no... not at all... but when the game finds you oh.. mama mia...
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Games leaving Game Pass on March 1st: - Yakuza 3 and 4 - Gris - Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty - Paw Patrol World - Maneater - F1 2022 - Space Engineers - Warhammer 40K: Boltgun
neutral · AI labelView post →After the latest update on May 4th, 2026 the game crashes just after launching it. It's unplayable.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I've played just a bit. This game has a hard learning curve. If you are new, go through all the tutorials, it'll help a ton, and look over the controls, as that'll help a lot as well. If you're looking for a reason to play the game, there is no other game where you can stretch your imagination like this. Build anything and everything, make it functional or silly or both. If you've hit a creative wall, start looking through blueprints on the workshop. I've put in almost 1500 hours on PC, and…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →"Greetings, I am Josh, your Digger's Onboard Assistive AI" Learned how to put images on screens in Space Engineers, using a program to convert them into text. Text that appears as an image when displayed on a screen in-game. So of course I put Josh in the Giga-Dwarf
positive · AI labelView post →---{ Graphics }--- ☐ You forget what reality is ☐ Beautiful ☑ Good ☐ Decent ☐ Bad ☐ Don‘t look too long at it ☐ MS-DOS ---{ Gameplay }--- ☑ Very good ☐ Good ☐ It's just gameplay ☐ Mehh ☐ Watch paint dry instead ☐ Just don't ---{ Audio }--- ☐ Eargasm ☐ Very good ☑ Good ☐ Not too bad ☐ Bad ☐ I'm now deaf ---{ Audience }--- ☐ Kids ☑ Teens ☑ Adults ☐ Grandma ---{ PC Requirements }--- ☐ Check if you can run paint ☐ Potato ☑ Decent ☐ Fast ☐ Rich boi ☐ Ask NASA…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Game devs are too lazy to fix their bugs aka features (years now)... Multiplayer is soo broken, enjoy the klang and sim speed oh and DONT do PvP! Every thing is client side and is easily hacked, again poor coding... Any playable server is 90% mods and 10% game, its the only way to make it playable and the mod world is poorly managed, expect crashes and sim speed issues.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Keen Software House Space Engineers / AI People. Not disclosed, Keen Software is pro-gen AI and allows google to test ai models with their games and has a sister company called GoodAi. www.keenswh.com/space-engine... www.keenswh.com/ai-people-al... blog.marekrosa.org/2024/08/ai-p...
neutral · AI labelView post →First game is fun, I gave a dislike because Keen is scum and added a "Off topic review" star for people calling out your CONSTANT payed DLC. Calling your community that is mad at you "Irrelevant." While axing M.E for Space Engineers 2 and still having the gull to release ANOTHER paid part pack. Don't be like Warthunder and take the heat or stop being scum!
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I see why people love this game. It's complex and rewards your time once you learned the systems. But I spent more time watching YT tutorials than playing. I think the QoL with the menus and craft-queueing needs a massive overhaul which is a problem since the entire premise of the game is crafting items. As a new player, when I want to put something from my inventory onto the toolbar (a simple and normal task), I shouldn't have to search a list of every item in the game to find it. I don't…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is a game for people who enjoy engineering creative solutions for it's own sake. There is almost endless possibility for the active mind. I didn't have the mental fortitude to make it that far on my initial playthrough, but I hope to one day build a a mobile space base in which smaller functional vessels can dock. A giant space whale containing everything from fighters to transports. I would name it Purrgil. I think of it as a game for all the kids that loved playing with Lego as kids.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I love this game and ran a dedicated server for a long time and brought many new people to the game, including buying people copies so they can play. However, there is one game breaking bug that significantly affects the gameplay so much that I can't recommend the game until it is fixed. There is a bug that causes spaces to depressurize for no reason, even when you have completely sufficient resources. This is a well documented bug that has existed for years and you can simply google it - there…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Started at Pertam after survival update. I'm dying 10-15 times per day, Zeus annihilating my wind turbines every freaking dust storm, spider meat are so tasty because these god forsaken spiders have intense diet of 1 irradiated engineer per hour. I have no bullets left! I'm using ♥♥♥♥♥♥ flying bikes as a projectiles to defend my sand cave base from 8+ ai factions mods i installed. I've spend 250+ hours in sand! SPACE engineers?! What space!? i'm busy defending my precious sand cave by…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →always way after the fact when i realize games where better back before devs stole modes and gate kept fun"Look at Space Engineers. Look at the train sims. The creative sandbox bracket is entirely broken. Developers are no longer creating games; they are building bare-bones digital storefronts disguised as engines. They bait us in with early access, watch what the community creates for free to make their empty game playable, and then copy and monetize those exact ideas while killing off our…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I play it for more then 2years and i must say its one of the best game i played (i played many games) for starters i will say that you need to give it a chance more then 1h you need to give it like 10h and i recomend watching some youtube videos where people play from start alone you can learn how to do things and later you will know how to do many things. So what i want say its , Its very good game when you like space wars or building bases and space ships :). Majchyn
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Factorio devs spent a decade optimizing their game so well it could run on a potato. Space Engineers devs apparently spent that same time...just making content packs, I guess? Because this game's optimization is pretty bad. I've got a reasonably beefy computer. I crank everything up to maximum, photo mode for the options that support it, just the most graphically impressive settings, and I get 60 FPS with VSync. Nice! Until BAM, five second frame time for no discernible reason. Turn…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →super interesting gameplay, like minecraft for adults
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It’s like Minecraft crashed into No Man’s Sky, where ship designs follow the Minmatar school of engineering (EVE Online: duct tape, prayers, and WD-40), the new player experience demands a physics master’s degree, the difficulty level sits slightly above a casual day in Dark Souls, and the learning curve feels like it was written by H. P. Lovecraft during a breakdown. The modding scene, the community, and the overall quality are Skyrim squared, then multiplied by ten—at minimum. When…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is one of the best games that I have ever played. You have complete control over how you want to play a specific game, from a wide-open creative one to a very challenging survival mode. Dozens of options are available to tune the game to your preferences.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Disclaimer no honestly I don't have 3,846 hours in SE a lot of those are mod managing, loading, and passing out after too many drinks. SE I have owned since 2015 and while it had its rough areas growing up here it is. So heres the bottom line yes I recommend it if you want a game where it feels like anything is possible. Also I highly recommend viewing the workshop at times several actually the devs made mods part of the base game. Great community feedback in my opinion. Now if you want a…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Well, I figure at this point, 3000+ hours into the game I should probably leave a review. I have been playing SE since it was originally released on Early Access. It has been a roller coaster of ups and downs, primarily on stability of multiplayer. It's finally at a point where it's stable 99% of the time. Sure there are still quirks here and there, but nothing a simple F5-Reconnect won't resolve. Many times these "issues" aren't game issues, but players not knowing what they are doing.…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Space Engineers is a genuinely good game with excellent mechanics and a very interesting concept. The building system, engineering mechanics, and overall freedom the game offers are very well designed, and the concept itself is something I really enjoy. There is a lot of potential here, and when the game works, it can be incredibly fun. However, there is one major issue that seriously hurts the experience: the game feels extremely empty in terms of content. The core mechanics are polished and…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Absurd amount of dlcs, base game is empty, while the having all the dlc is not worth it lol
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Do you like building spaceships? Do you like looking at those spaceships? then this is the game for you! Do you like flying spaceships? do you like engaging in dogfights and raiding enemy strongholds? You should probably look for another game. Space engineers sadly is another indie game made popular not because the developer made a good game, but because the community that surrounds it is amazing. The amount of mods for this game is great and they're the sole reason this game is…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →If anyone is playing Space Engineers, I'd love it if you would give the Gremlin MK-VI a try in the workshop! It's cute and can reach space from a planet surface and I'm very proud of it (after crashing several prototypes)...
positive · AI labelView post →No doubt one of the best space sims out there! I don't see the any problem with tutorials as people say, I think people are just getting too lazy, cause this one is one the simplest and most intuitive of the genre I've played so far. You can create your own solar system to play if you want, and it has no loading screen unlike some garbage "triple A" games. Buy it you wont regret (unless you are a lazy person who denies to activate more than two brain cells), and now it also has survival…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →On Tutorialising... Game seems fun when my wife plays it, and I think about it based off of her experience and the enjoyment ive seen her get out of it. However what i just experienced was genuinely one of the worst tutorial sequences I think I have in a game. It started with having me try to get oxygen from a generator, i'm aware that there were alternative things to start with but given that it was a largely unguided experience and my oxygen was depleeting it felt like the right start. I…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Over the years from just being a physics simulation with no real content or survival, just ship building and destruction to becoming one of the best experience i have had in a space game in years. Even before the DLCs with the huge modding community and the support of Keen to keep the game in line with majority of the community's desire from the engine. In 2025 this is a very fun experience either solo, or even better with friends. Fun PVE content as well as full PVP support. Runs very well on…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Once you download the addon that removes all of the DLC icons, you realize how little this game actually comes with. The game constantly reminds you of all the DLC content via advertisments on the main menu, pause screen, outposts and stations and landing pods that are primarily blocks that look as though they should belong in the base game but dont. Great game, fun to play with friends, but the DLC advertising is turning me off playing rather than enticing me to purchase them, or the Dev's…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →In its current state, the base game easily delivers around 400 hours of pure enjoyment. However, the modding community unlocks literally thousands of hours of extra playtime (some people have tens of thousands). I have 2,708 hours so far, and the game still feels as fresh and exciting as day one. For almost 2 years now on our dedicated server, we run a model(ish!) of the solar system where it takes a ship ~14 real-life days to travel the diameter of the solar system and we so far we have…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →this game is fun, but i tell you all new players. please take your time build and dont rush your builds and if you do not know how to make things work, well just dont worry about that first, just build the shell first like in away you do in minecraft, then add the important stuff later, after you get done with what you would wanted, then add power or the core to give your ship power so you no your ship has power, the lights will come online. also never start Survival mode first start creative…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Been playing this game for a long time and this is one of the truly limitless sandboxes. ive pushed this game beyond what its built to do and have yet to find a limit. If you want something you can truly explore and feel progress playing space engineers is it.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →After selling thousands of copies and years of success, the devs decided to put advertisments in the game that you cannot disabled, integrated into the UI so you cannot avoid them. This is not excusable. Avoid this game, and avoid this developer.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I've played 2800 hours of this game. I had a lot of fun. I always hoped that after each update the game would develop. For so many years, updates with a few new elements were just released each time and somehow the game remained empty. With the last update, I was hoping to see something new, some life and direction in this game. There are hundreds of people who make mods and improve the game so that it is more diverse and complete. Somehow the creators of the game did not want to improve…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The game is great, but a lot of the blocks/features are locked behind a paywall which is annoying when you are trying to make complex builds
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Until now I used a 3D model of the Rocinante which is ofc not allowed due to copyright. So I asked a ship designer from the game Space Engineers to design a ship for me, which I can use as a reference to model a new ship. Heres my current progress on it #indiedev #gamedev #space #scifi #TheExpanse
neutral · AI labelView post →My Favourite, -Rocket: Nova -Engine: J-2 -Spacecraft: Tenacity -Space probe: MRO -Rover: Perseverance -Space company: RocketLab, Stoke Space -Planet: Jupiter -Space game: Space Engineers -Future mission: MSR
positive · AI labelView post →Great game, you should buy it i would in a heart beat if i was you especially if your friends play it, it's a great game over all to mechanics and just straight out surviving the game. Thanks for reading my review.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Space Engineers 2 is out in Alpha so I got that but then decided to get the first one so I could play the full game and now I have no idea what I’m doing, I just wanna build pretty ships 🤣
neutral · AI labelView post →Space Engineers 2 has been announced which does remind me of that time the Havok physics license lapsed so for a day the game just didn't have any physics
neutral · AI labelView post →Dont get me wrong. The game is fun if you overlook the bugs. But i cant give it a thumbs up because of these. Some bugs are very old like 10+ years and some are brand new. Like ore detection is still giving false results. Or battery consumption is not showing correct/all values. Like it says i will be charged in x-amount of time but in real its draining. Kinda game breaking for online servers.
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