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Space Engineers

Space Engineers

Released: 4/15/2020

Space Engineers is a sandbox game about engineering, construction and maintenance of space works. Players build space ships and space stations of various sizes and utilization (civil and military), pilot ships and perform asteroid mining. Space Engineers utilizes a realistic volumetric-based physics engine: all objects can be assembled, disassembled, damaged and destroyed. The game comes with two game modes: creative and survival.

Space Engineers is a sandbox game about engineering, construction and maintenance of space works. Players build space ships and space stations of various sizes and utilization (civil and military), pilot ships and perform asteroid mining. Space Engineers utilizes a realistic volumetric-based physics engine: all objects can be assembled, disassembled, damaged and destroyed. The game comes with two game modes: creative and survival.

Space Engineers is a sandbox game about engineering, construction and maintenance of space works. Players build space ships and space stations of various sizes and utilization (civil and military), pilot ships and perform asteroid mining. Space Engineers utilizes a realistic volumetric-based physics engine: all objects can be assembled, disassembled, damaged and destroyed. The game comes with two game modes: creative and survival.

Critics
75
Steam
89
Metacritic
57

Score Breakdown

75.0

Critic Average

5 reviews

89

Steam User Score

133,991 reviews

57

Metacritic User Score

38 reviews

Disparity Breakdown

Steam Disparity
-13.9
Metacritic Disparity
+18.0
Combined Disparity
+2.1

Average of both sources

Review Timing

3 early (60%)0 launch window (0%)2 late (40%)