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Space Engineers

Keen Software House · 2019-02-28

SteamGOGPlayStation StoreMicrosoft Store

ActionIndieSimulationStrategy

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative · Perspectives: First person, Third person

Releases: Feb 28, 2019 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), May 11, 2023 (PlayStation 5), May 11, 2023 (PlayStation 4), Apr 15, 2020 (Xbox One)

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.

Space Engineers is an Action, Indie, Simulation and Strategy game released in 2019, priced at $19.99, with an estimated 2,000,000 .. 5,000,000 owners and a Very Positive review sentiment (89% of 134,431 reviews).

1,817
playing now
89%
positive of 135k reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
2,000,000–5,000,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
30
twitch viewers (latest)
5.0
viewers/channel (concentration)
80/100
critic score (1 outlets, IGDB)
65/100
IGDB user rating (59 ratings)
60
Nexus mods (28k downloads)
3.45★
PlayStation Store rating (2,996 ratings)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unsupported
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Unsupported
$19.99
steam price (US)

1,817 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 10:00 UTC (census sample)

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. In May 2015, for approximately a year and a half, the game's source code was officially available and maintained by KSH to assist the modding community. On December 15, 2016, the game entered Beta and was later officially released on February 28, 2019.

Trailer

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Health check

Healthy
  • · 1,817 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 1,913 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~239/week).
  • · Review velocity down 39% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 1% of 27,649 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 3.4M–8.1M copies

Review-multiple estimate from 134,566 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

Microsoft Store$19.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $4.99 at Steam (2023-10-26) · bundled 5×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $19.99 · on sale 31 of 56 observed days · $15.00 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
3.7k3.7k20182026Week of 2018-03-01: 225 positiveWeek of 2018-03-01: 89 negativeWeek of 2018-04-01: 209 positiveWeek of 2018-04-01: 59 negativeWeek of 2018-05-01: 161 positiveWeek of 2018-05-01: 69 negativeWeek of 2018-06-01: 194 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 60 negativeWeek of 2018-07-01: 295 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 99 negativeWeek of 2018-08-01: 242 positiveWeek of 2018-08-01: 69 negativeWeek of 2018-09-01: 143 positiveWeek of 2018-09-01: 39 negativeWeek of 2018-10-01: 136 positiveWeek of 2018-10-01: 26 negativeWeek of 2018-11-01: 777 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 45 negativeWeek of 2018-12-01: 230 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 57 negativeWeek of 2019-01-01: 194 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 47 negativeWeek of 2019-02-01: 251 positiveWeek of 2019-02-01: 46 negativeWeek of 2019-03-01: 585 positiveWeek of 2019-03-01: 179 negativeWeek of 2019-04-01: 300 positiveWeek of 2019-04-01: 114 negativeWeek of 2019-05-01: 165 positiveWeek of 2019-05-01: 52 negativeWeek of 2019-06-01: 868 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 87 negativeWeek of 2019-07-01: 1,099 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 91 negativeWeek of 2019-08-01: 221 positiveWeek of 2019-08-01: 56 negativeWeek of 2019-09-01: 237 positiveWeek of 2019-09-01: 87 negativeWeek of 2019-10-01: 511 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 81 negativeWeek of 2019-11-01: 3,657 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 111 negativeWeek of 2019-12-01: 1,841 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 87 negativeWeek of 2020-01-01: 1,768 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 131 negativeWeek of 2020-02-01: 1,061 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 75 negativeWeek of 2020-03-01: 1,308 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 159 negativeWeek of 2020-04-01: 1,324 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 161 negativeWeek of 2020-05-01: 913 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 117 negativeWeek of 2020-06-01: 987 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 145 negativeWeek of 2020-07-01: 869 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 80 negativeWeek of 2020-08-01: 768 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 78 negativeWeek of 2020-09-01: 599 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 56 negativeWeek of 2020-10-01: 755 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 65 negativeWeek of 2020-11-01: 1,201 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 107 negativeWeek of 2020-12-01: 994 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 95 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 905 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 85 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 917 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 124 negativeWeek of 2021-03-01: 657 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 73 negativeWeek of 2021-04-01: 679 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 90 negativeWeek of 2021-05-01: 555 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 81 negativeWeek of 2021-06-01: 462 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 52 negativeWeek of 2021-07-01: 554 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 119 negativeWeek of 2021-08-01: 608 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 92 negativeWeek of 2021-09-01: 472 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 63 negativeWeek of 2021-10-01: 429 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 46 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 591 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 85 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 558 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 69 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 673 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 85 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 884 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 406 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 1,294 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 341 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 598 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 80 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 560 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 71 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 464 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 53 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 473 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 74 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 422 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 44 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 365 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 32 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 352 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 26 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 703 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 103 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 531 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 67 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 569 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 85 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 394 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 55 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 420 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 59 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 514 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 73 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 381 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 38 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 396 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 49 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 543 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 77 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 393 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 46 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 427 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 58 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 462 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 80 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 812 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 75 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 405 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 40 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 431 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 51 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 376 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 46 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 457 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 59 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 388 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 62 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 400 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 86 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 361 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 64 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 377 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 58 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 313 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 40 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 349 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 70 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 534 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 109 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 506 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 49 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 504 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 74 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 433 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 74 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 270 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 37 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 302 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 35 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 263 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 39 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 303 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 60 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 243 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 44 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 269 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 54 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 288 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 68 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 496 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 105 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 283 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 59 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 527 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 50 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 295 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 45 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 251 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 44 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 223 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 25 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 224 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 35 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 174 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 41 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 251 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 50 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 177 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 38 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 196 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 66 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 156 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 55 negativeWeek of 2026-09-01: 163 positiveWeek of 2026-09-01: 39 negativeWeek of 2026-10-01: 60 positiveWeek of 2026-10-01: 8 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

5.1k1.7k2026-09-15 11:00 — 1,900 players2026-09-16 19:00 — 3,381 players2026-09-18 03:00 — 2,095 players2026-09-19 10:00 — 2,567 players2026-09-20 18:00 — 4,640 players2026-09-22 02:00 — 2,349 players2026-09-23 09:00 — 1,660 players2026-09-24 17:00 — 3,191 players2026-09-26 00:00 — 2,803 players2026-09-27 08:00 — 2,504 players2026-09-28 15:00 — 2,936 players2026-09-29 23:00 — 2,740 players2026-10-01 06:00 — 1,709 players2026-10-02 14:00 — 2,569 players2026-10-03 21:00 — 4,485 players2026-10-05 05:00 — 1,994 players2026-10-06 13:00 — 2,386 players2026-10-07 20:00 — 3,438 players2026-10-09 04:00 — 2,119 players2026-10-10 11:00 — 3,121 players2026-10-11 19:00 — 5,131 players2026-10-13 03:00 — 2,437 players2026-10-14 10:00 — 1,817 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
10.0k596Oct 2013Aug 2026Oct 2013 — avg 1,192 · peak 2,089Feb 2014 — avg 1,292 · peak 4,474Jun 2014 — avg 3,726 · peak 13,819Oct 2014 — avg 5,101 · peak 23,867Feb 2015 — avg 5,587 · peak 22,303Jun 2015 — avg 2,692 · peak 4,788Oct 2015 — avg 3,374 · peak 6,434Feb 2016 — avg 3,393 · peak 6,425Jun 2016 — avg 3,109 · peak 6,255Oct 2016 — avg 2,510 · peak 4,760Feb 2017 — avg 2,973 · peak 5,687Jun 2017 — avg 2,726 · peak 5,527Oct 2017 — avg 2,799 · peak 5,319Feb 2018 — avg 3,872 · peak 7,709Jun 2018 — avg 2,504 · peak 4,402Oct 2018 — avg 2,928 · peak 5,946Feb 2019 — avg 3,118 · peak 10,041Jun 2019 — avg 4,645 · peak 8,329Oct 2019 — avg 5,066 · peak 10,261Feb 2020 — avg 6,981 · peak 13,439Jun 2020 — avg 6,649 · peak 11,962Oct 2020 — avg 5,656 · peak 13,163Feb 2021 — avg 7,779 · peak 16,196Jun 2021 — avg 4,367 · peak 7,640Oct 2021 — avg 4,257 · peak 7,384Feb 2022 — avg 8,977 · peak 17,189Jun 2022 — avg 5,179 · peak 9,198Oct 2022 — avg 4,437 · peak 8,054Feb 2023 — avg 5,068 · peak 9,205Jun 2023 — avg 4,778 · peak 8,741Oct 2023 — avg 5,722 · peak 17,737Feb 2024 — avg 4,543 · peak 8,103Jun 2024 — avg 4,539 · peak 8,723Oct 2024 — avg 6,563 · peak 15,859Feb 2025 — avg 4,430 · peak 8,400Jun 2025 — avg 3,944 · peak 7,426Oct 2025 — avg 5,235 · peak 10,629Feb 2026 — avg 3,322 · peak 5,936Jun 2026 — avg 3,339 · peak 6,256Aug 2026 — avg 3,360 · peak 6,168
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Chart history

PositiveNegative
29292026-09-212026-10-142026-09-21: 29 new positive2026-09-21: 10 new negative2026-09-23: 8 new positive2026-09-23: 1 new negative2026-09-27: 7 new positive2026-09-27: 1 new negative2026-09-29: 3 new positive2026-09-29: 1 new negative2026-10-01: 2 new negative2026-10-03: 7 new positive2026-10-03: 3 new negative2026-10-04: 5 new positive2026-10-04: 3 new negative2026-10-05: 6 new positive2026-10-05: 1 new negative2026-10-06: 1 new positive2026-10-06: 1 new negative2026-10-07: 6 new positive2026-10-07: 1 new negative2026-10-08: 2 new positive2026-10-09: 3 new positive2026-10-13: 6 new positive2026-10-13: 2 new negative2026-10-14: 4 new positive2026-10-14: 3 new negative
New Steam reviews per day (census review snapshots). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$24.99$8.492015-01-012026-10-142015-01-01 — best price $9.992015-06-11 — best price $16.242016-01-03 — best price $24.992016-05-23 — best price $24.992017-03-21 — best price $19.992017-11-03 — best price $24.992018-03-19 — best price $12.492018-11-21 — best price $9.992019-03-08 — best price $19.992019-08-12 — best price $13.992019-11-26 — best price $13.992020-01-21 — best price $13.992020-04-10 — best price $10.932020-06-12 — best price $11.892020-08-04 — best price $19.992020-09-16 — best price $17.882020-10-24 — best price $13.992020-12-13 — best price $16.882021-02-06 — best price $17.882021-03-16 — best price $19.992021-04-22 — best price $19.992021-06-01 — best price $19.992021-09-20 — best price $19.992021-12-13 — best price $13.992022-03-21 — best price $13.992022-05-24 — best price $19.992022-09-27 — best price $15.892023-01-09 — best price $19.992023-06-29 — best price $9.992023-12-07 — best price $19.992024-03-25 — best price $11.992024-07-31 — best price $19.992024-12-19 — best price $9.992025-05-20 — best price $19.992025-11-24 — best price $9.992026-05-07 — best price $9.992026-10-14 — best price $19.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

82362026-05-29 — 68 pageviews2026-06-02 — 75 pageviews2026-06-06 — 76 pageviews2026-06-10 — 55 pageviews2026-06-14 — 82 pageviews2026-06-18 — 43 pageviews2026-06-22 — 62 pageviews2026-06-26 — 70 pageviews2026-06-30 — 36 pageviews2026-07-04 — 41 pageviews2026-07-08 — 57 pageviews2026-07-12 — 53 pageviews2026-07-16 — 52 pageviews2026-07-20 — 53 pageviews2026-07-24 — 53 pageviews2026-07-28 — 72 pageviews2026-08-01 — 46 pageviews2026-08-05 — 64 pageviews2026-08-09 — 75 pageviews2026-08-13 — 51 pageviews2026-08-17 — 57 pageviews2026-08-21 — 68 pageviews2026-08-25 — 62 pageviews2026-08-29 — 52 pageviews2026-09-02 — 75 pageviews2026-09-06 — 51 pageviews2026-09-10 — 47 pageviews2026-09-14 — 75 pageviews2026-09-18 — 44 pageviews2026-09-22 — 58 pageviews2026-09-26 — 56 pageviews2026-09-30 — 57 pageviews2026-10-04 — 39 pageviews2026-10-07 — 49 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Twitch viewers

22802026-09-30 21:34 — 39 viewers2026-10-01 06:34 — 10 viewers2026-10-01 15:34 — 137 viewers2026-10-02 00:34 — 6 viewers2026-10-02 09:34 — 18 viewers2026-10-02 18:34 — 29 viewers2026-10-03 03:34 — 19 viewers2026-10-03 12:34 — 7 viewers2026-10-03 21:34 — 42 viewers2026-10-04 06:34 — 13 viewers2026-10-04 15:34 — 21 viewers2026-10-05 00:34 — 5 viewers2026-10-05 09:34 — 5 viewers2026-10-05 18:34 — 43 viewers2026-10-06 03:34 — 6 viewers2026-10-06 12:34 — 6 viewers2026-10-06 21:34 — 16 viewers2026-10-07 06:34 — 18 viewers2026-10-07 15:34 — 17 viewers2026-10-08 00:34 — 29 viewers2026-10-08 09:34 — 3 viewers2026-10-08 18:34 — 82 viewers2026-10-09 03:34 — 13 viewers2026-10-09 12:34 — 17 viewers2026-10-09 21:34 — 46 viewers2026-10-10 06:34 — 52 viewers2026-10-10 15:34 — 11 viewers2026-10-11 00:34 — 29 viewers2026-10-11 09:34 — 23 viewers2026-10-11 18:34 — 43 viewers2026-10-12 03:34 — 6 viewers2026-10-12 12:34 — 16 viewers2026-10-12 21:34 — 48 viewers2026-10-13 06:34 — 14 viewers2026-10-13 15:34 — 143 viewers2026-10-14 00:34 — 16 viewers2026-10-14 09:34 — 14 viewers2026-10-14 18:34 — 30 viewers2026-10-14 20:34 — 30 viewers
Hourly Twitch viewers (census snapshots).

Completion

30
achievements tracked
39.1%
earned "Number 5 Is Alive"
1.4%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerMulti-playerPvPOnline PvPCo-opCross-Platform MultiplayerSteam AchievementsSteam WorkshopPartial Controller SupportSteam Cloud20 DLC

16 supported languages: English, German, Spanish - Spain, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Polish, French, Italian, Finnish, Hungarian, Norwegian…

Post-launch support: 20 DLC released, first 2017-01-04, latest 2026-07-27 (Steam store data)

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)51,4880%30
Xbox One (Xbox)6,4210%30
PS5 (PlayStation)2,2411%31
PS4 (PlayStation)9161%31

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Where its players are

Share of Steam reviews by language (top languages measured) — a proxy for where the player base lives.

Player tags

Co-opIndieSpaceSci-fiPhysicsSandboxBuildingCraftingSurvivalFuturistic

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

Recent updates

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Similarity via IGDB.

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