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Space Engineers

Space Engineers is a sandbox engineering game where you design and build ships, stations, and planetary bases in a fully destructible environment. Explore planets and space, mine resources, survive hazards, and engage in combat alone or with friends in Creative or Survival modes.

Developer
Keen Software House
Publisher
Keen Software House
Franchise
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Release date
Feb 28, 2019
Store page updated
Jul 27, 2026
Price
−50% $19.99 $9.99 · Steam store ↗

Review Analysis Score

77.2/ 100

Based on 438 reviews from the past 1 year

Steam User Rating
Recent 🙂 Mostly Positive 73% of 171
All time 😄 Very Positive 89% of 134,427
“core gameplay is fantastic”

How it holds up

−50+5
Gameplay
+0.78
Freedom +4.01
“freedom to build and create your own designs” (126)

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Story & World
-0.82
World +1.44

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Content Volume
+1.58
Volume +2.80

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Visuals & Sound
+2.40

Not enough data — only 5% of reviews mention this.

Visuals +1.81

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Multiplayer
+2.63
Playing together +2.45
“playing with friend for 15 hours straight, having fun” (18)

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Fairness
-3.24
Monetization -2.08
“DLC blocks locked in base game ships, scummy monetization forcing purchases” (46)

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Tech & Ops
-1.78
Developer support +0.17
“still receiving DLC and updates after 6 years” (14)
コンソール版で出すためにはPCで日本語対応をしてはいけない理由があるのだろうか？ 翻訳ファイルは入っているので簡単に日本語化はできるのだが、日本語入力ができないので結局元に戻しました。 HUDを日本語化するMODを作成しています。未だに動くので旅のお供にどうぞ 6年前のゲームですが、未だにDLC発売とアップデートでシステムが少しだけ新しくなります。 もっと、Space Engineers 2 の方に注力してほしいと思うのは私だけだろうか？ サバイバルモードはあってもサンドボックスゲームなので、ストーリーは有りません。 自分で目標を決めて遊びましょう。 MODを入れると、幅が無限大に広がるのでワークショップを見てみるとよいでしょう。

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Scores are the average of reviews that mention each category (−5 to +5). Fainter bars were mentioned by fewer reviews; grey means too few to trust. Tap a category ▾ to see what drives it.

Steam review activity

% positive over time
since launch, by month · major update
60%70%80%90%100%
Oct 2013Sep 2026
Reviews
per day · 169 reviews, peak 11/day
01020
Aug 19Sep 16

Steam only gives daily counts for the last 30 days; longer ranges are by month. Months with fewer than 10 reviews are left out of % positive. "Show updates" marks major updates and DLC the developer posted on Steam (since about 2020) — hover a column to see % positive the month before and after.

Review languages

Languages of the 438 reviews we analyzed from the past year — not all Steam reviews.

  • English63%
  • Russian15%
  • German4%
  • Spanish4%
  • French3%
  • Portuguese3%
  • Other8%

🔒 Scores broken down by language — how Russian or Chinese players rate each category — are in the paid dashboard.

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