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Space Engineers

Keen Software House · Keen Software House · Feb 28, 2019
Space Sandbox Building Open World Survival Craft Multiplayer Survival
Fresh observation Observed
3,451
Players now
5,061
All-time peak
▲ 8.8%
Δ 24h
Player count updated

Space Engineers - Player Count & Price Tracker

Space Engineers has 3,451 current players with active ongoing development. Currently priced at $9.99, it represents green value compared to similar Action games.

Total Players
3.5K
— Active
Price
$9.99
Genre
Action
Developer
Keen Software House

Space Engineers player count and price summary

Current players
3,451
All-time peak
5,061
24-hour player change
+8.8%
Current US price
$9.99

Player count observed . Values marked unavailable are not estimated.

Players Now

3.5K
▲ 8.8% (24h)

All-Time Peak

5.1K
Feb 2026

Estimated Owners

2,000,000 .. 5,000,000
Estimate via SteamSpy

Game Insights

Buy Verdict

Buy — $9.99.

Excellent deal! This matches the historical low price with 50% off.

▲ ~51 days until next sale

Multiplayer Viability

Healthy — 3.2K CCU.

Strong player base for matchmaking.

▬ Stable population

Update Momentum

Actively Updated — 3 patches in last 30 days.

25 patches and 27 news items in last 180 days. Latest patch effect size: 0.00.

▲ 3 patches this month

Value Score

Great Value — 89th percentile.

Price-to-player ratio ranks in the 89th percentile.

▲ Market pricing tier

Genre Benchmarks

Player Count Top 7%
Value Ratio Top 11%

Early Access Active

Time in EA
230 days
Updates
64
Current Players
2,992
Player count

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Price History

Lowest Price
$9.99
Jul 2026 across all regions
Current Price
$9.99
US region
Price history across regions (last 30 days)

Can I Play This?

Steam declarations and Valve's Steam Deck compatibility result. Missing data is shown as unknown, never unsupported.

Sources fresh
Native Steam builds
Windows: unknown
macOS: unknown
Linux: unknown
Steam Deck
unsupported
Valve compatibility test
Input
Controller support: unknown
Structured language support (16)
LanguageInterfaceFull audioSubtitles
EnglishYesNoNo
GermanYesNoNo
Spanish - SpainYesNoNo
CzechYesNoNo
DanishYesNoNo
DutchYesNoNo
PolishYesNoNo
FrenchYesNoNo
ItalianYesNoNo
FinnishYesNoNo
HungarianYesNoNo
NorwegianYesNoNo
Portuguese - BrazilYesNoNo
SwedishYesNoNo
RussianYesNoNo
Simplified ChineseYesNoNo

Third-party requirements shown by Steam

Requires agreement to a 3rd-party EULA Space Engineers EULA
Steam store page fresh · checked 2026-10-03 PCGamingWiki technical notes External link only; SteamIQHQ does not ingest PCGamingWiki content.

System Requirements

Platform Support
Windows
Windows Requirements
Minimum:
Minimum:
  • OS: Microsoft Windows 10 (latest SP) 64-bit
  • Processor: Intel i5 @ 3.0 GHz or higher (or AMD equivalent)
  • Memory: 8 GB RAM
  • Graphics: Geforce 750/Radeon R9 270X or higher
  • DirectX: Version 11
  • Storage: 35 GB available space
  • Sound Card: DirectX® compatible on-board
  • Additional Notes: No internet connection needed for single player, but for multiplayer we recommend 5Mbit/s or more
Recommended:
Recommended:
  • OS: Microsoft Windows 10 (latest SP) 64-bit
  • Processor: Intel Quad Core i7 @ 4.5 GHz or higher (or AMD equivalent)
  • Memory: 16 GB RAM
  • Graphics: Geforce 1070 GTX / Radeon RX Vega 56 or higher
  • DirectX: Version 11
  • Storage: 35 GB available space
  • Sound Card: DirectX® compatible on-board
  • Additional Notes: No internet connection needed for single player, but for multiplayer we recommend 5Mbit/s or more
Pricing
Paid Game
Sale: 50% off
$19.99 $9.99

Additional Information

Categories
Single-player Multi-player PvP Online PvP Co-op Cross-Platform Multiplayer Steam Achievements Steam Workshop Partial Controller Support Steam Cloud Includes level editor Family Sharing
Tags
Space Sandbox Building Open World Survival Craft Multiplayer Survival Simulation Open World Physics Crafting +10 more
Supported Languages
English, German, Spanish - Spain, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Polish, French, Italian, Finnish, Hungarian, Norwegian, Portuguese - Brazil, Swedish, Russian, Simplified Chinese

Player-to-Price Ratio

345.45
7-day avg players per $1 spent

Current Pricing

🏷️
50% OFF SALE!
$19.99 $9.99

Additional Information

🏆 Achievements
30
total achievements
Featured:
Crayon Box
Declare War
👍 Recommendations
102.7K
positive reviews
🇧🇷 DEJUS Rating
14
Brazilian rating
🇩🇪 Steam Germany
16
German classification
📦 DLC Available
20
downloadable content
🆘 Support
🎁 Purchase Options
1
package options

Developer Analytics

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About This Game

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.

Detailed Description

DELUXE EDITION

The Deluxe Edition includes the standard Space Engineers game, an exclusive "Golden" skin set for your character and tools, the first Space Engineers build from 2013, all tracks from the original soundtrack, over 200 unpublished digital concept images and never seen videos and a special badge!


About the Game

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

  • Survival – 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

About the Game

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

  • Survival – 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

Frequently Asked Questions

Is Space Engineers worth buying right now?
Buy — $9.99. Excellent deal! This matches the historical low price with 50% off.
When does Space Engineers go on sale?
Excellent deal! This matches the historical low price with 50% off.
Is Space Engineers multiplayer dead?
Healthy — 3.2K CCU. Strong player base for matchmaking.
Is Space Engineers still getting updates?
Actively Updated — 3 patches in last 30 days. 25 patches and 27 news items in last 180 days. Latest patch effect size: 0.00.
How many players are currently playing Space Engineers?
3.5K players are currently in-game on Steam.
Is Space Engineers free to play?
Space Engineers costs $9.99 on Steam.
What genre is Space Engineers?
Space Engineers is a Action, Indie, Simulation, Strategy game.
Who developed Space Engineers?
Space Engineers was developed by Keen Software House and published by Keen Software House.
What platforms does Space Engineers support?
Available on Steam for Windows.

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