Space Engineers

this is the best sandbox space game there is and when you get bored with the vanilla game there are so many mods to keep you playing forever

great and fun and creative

literally a game made out of spaghetti, complete unergonomic hell and horrid survival mechanics that depend on rng or flying around for an hour.
Made a world, no iron for literal miles, unplayable
Made another, no iron for literal miles
I made 6 worlds and still couldn't find iron.
7th, Found silicon, couldn't smelt it because the damn refinery cant connect to power without researching connectors which needs the refinery.
10/10 game design, lock core features behind their dependents

This game looks fun. Too bad I can't play it for some reason. It keeps freezing and minimizes to the desktop. Guess I should have tried Space Engineers 2?

it will be easier creating this game from scratch than it is to play it, nothing works and it is too confusing to make things work......back to the drawing board

I avoided getting this game for years because, well frankly I didn't get it. It's like going to that rich friends house when you were a kid and he has all the cool erector sets and legos that you couldn't afford so you just stared at them lustfully.

Except now, you're an adult. And you can afford them. So you spend 30 hours trying to figure out how to automate a robot. And for a minute, you get to feel like the cool engineer you always wanted to be. And if you really want, you can die on re-entry.

Great game so far, barely made a mining ship, hoping to leave planet soon

With one of the most prolific Workshops and the most avid community on all of Steam, if you ever want to build something cool and then watch it crash spectacularly, Space Engineers provides numerous ways to do that.

it's an engineering game, you find issues and make solutions.

but the game lacks 2 big things, an actual story and proper in-game tutorials that guide you to understand all the systems... as it stands, i had to watch the equivalent of my playtime in tutorial videos, sometimes just leaving the game open while i try to watch a video to understand how something works. (often watching tutorial videos while traveling back-forth from work so i understand how to do something later)

i know the F1 screen has tutorial videos, but they are horrible and pretty much the same as watching better youtube videos.

if you can go over the HUGE learning gap, it's an amazing game full of possibilities and great modding comunity.

The options are endless almost to a fault sometimes it feels

Its a fun sandbox to build almost anything and you can go into space! The learning curve is steep.

Not new player friendly, shoving you to try its new "quick play" and then giving you only a tutorial on how to move. If the first thing i have to do to learn a game is go to YouTube, the Devs did something wrong.

losing sleeps trying to figure out how to power my base. I did not read or watch any tutorial before start the game thinking my engineering knowledge was good. I WAS WRONG.

10/10 would lose sleeps again

buy game

get frustrated learning survival with expansions mods

give up

10 minutes past refund limit

try again without mods

now here i am

10/10

Spawn in.
Gather ore.
Learn to fly.
Slam into ground at Mach Jesus.
Respawn.
Fly around a little slower.
Accidentally turn off dampeners.
Slam into ground at Mach Jesus.
10/10 would slam again.

me personally, i dont like these types of games, but it still was ok and i still had some fun.

i would recommend tho if you are into this type of stuff, my friend wanted to play this with me so i bought it, and it is still entertaining even though its not my style.

It is very polished, and it is complicated but fun to learn and play with others (from any platform :))

Its a really nice and fun game to play online with friends. But it is time for SP2.

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A game that doesn't hold your hand, nor does it guide you to danger. Everything you do is based upon what you want. I've heard complaints over the years about games like Minecraft for not having a 'proper drive'/'clear motive' to get you through the game, but Space Engineers truly takes the cake in this field. It really is a pure sandbox game. That being said, it can be very demotivating to do things in the game without inspiration or ideas to build off of. Taking things straight into survival might not be everyone's cup of tea because of the aforementioned. Thankfully, the game allows you to save Blueprints from any creation made in game, which can be transferred across any save and projected into your worlds to build in survival or paste back in another world. This feature alone cuts out 90% of the tedious trail and error of survival mode and really allows it to shine a bit brighter. If you want to do it the hard way, nothings stopping you! (There will still be a good bit of trial and error in creative mode ;] ) Whether you want to be a scrapper on the outer reaches of space, or a power hungry warmonger, the choice is yours... AND ONLY YOURS! Take your time, and have some patience; the rewards this game can bring are endless.

so fun lots of creative solutions you can build to mine, make your own ships and haulers

This is a great and realistic game that promotes engineering and problem solving with friends across all platforms.

Space Engineers is a game I have dreamed of for years. A space exploration game that allows you to create basically any kind of ship in any design you want. The possibilities are endless and I daresay that the shipbuilding is on par of that of much of Minecrafts building. The vanilla game has some issues with survival progression, however. Outside of colonizing other planets, getting the endgame modules, PVP and occasional PVE encounters, there is not much else. Most of the games appeal comes from creative building. Most of these issues, however, can be fixed by the games library of mods. It's compatibility for mods expands the game by a lot, and there are several quality mods out there and many good developers. Overall, Space Engineers leaves much for its successor to live up to. With updates still rolling out for SE1 and SE2 opening testing, the future is bright for this game.

Very good game with great replayability. Fantastic with friends, and good alone. A little too many DLC's that you'd want though. Looking forward to Space Engineers 2!

It's fun to play i have over 100 hours of breaking ships down and then rebuilding them and i gotta say this is one of the best games i have ever played

My recommendation comes with a caveat - there is a lot to like here, but you will absolutely need to find some tutorial information online outside of the game. It is nearly impossible to figure out how to accomplish much of anything without a minimum of some starter guidance. There is a "First Survival" scenario included, but it is not a whole lot more forthcoming.

However, once you get past the initial Everest sized learning cliff, there is a LOT to like here. As my number of hours played (28 at time of writing this) suggests, I have barely scratched the surface of most of the mechanics of the game, and haven't even touched many others. There are some behavioral quirks that I disagree with (like neither your character nor any ship you build aligning themselves to planetary gravity while flying in atmosphere), but it really is just quirks.

The way that structures are built in this game is absolutely mind blowing, and I look forward to digging in to more of this and playing with what can be done.

Install mods
Make a world
Spawn with a rover
Build a base,build a new rover, build a miner, build a ship,
Go mining
Come back
Take a seat in your base for ores to be refined
Reaver spawns
You're away from your pc
Reaver detected a target, is your base
Chaos started
70% of your base is destroyed
You come back,
See base,
You're mad
Get in the only ship you have with guns that is flyable
You go up with you ship,
15 second later you're crashing down with your ship
Ship gets destroyed,
Reaver is still alive,
You do the only thing to save your base or what is left
With grinder in hand you get control of the reaver,
Park the reaver on the helicoper platform.
Check damages
You hear an explosion
Check the platform
Reaver warhead exploded
You're thinking what you did wrong
You start reparing,
After 2 hours you finish
You build your rovers back
Another reaver spawn smaller one
You get in your new ship, small grid
You destroy the reaver
Fly back to the base
Seat in your chair looking at the base
New reaver (large grid) spawns
Alt F4
Best game, recommending
200 Hours and still playing this game like a new player.

spend hours making s*** on Europa just for me to realize destroying your battery on the drop pod doesnt drop Power cells so i kinda f***** myself on one run and flew up till i ran our of oxygen 10/10 game would recommend

This game is a time sink of ingenuity and creativity. It is a sandbox; however, and you have to make your own paths, stories, etc. There is a newer built in lore, but where it shines the most is when you add in community content to spice up survival playthroughs. I just crossed the 1k hour threshold on steam which is why I finally decided to put in a review. I also have another 200 hours on the xbox version. The devs are steadily improving on the survival side of things and I am looking forwards to what they have in store for the future, even while they work on SE2.

Returning gamer after initial release, a great dev combining space/building/combat/survival. Plenty of dlc's and mods to keep you amused.

good game. this game is fun and challenging enough for beginners and veterans of the game type. and the expansion is new depth. the sequel will only build on this.

This is a delightful sandbox game with hours of enjoyment. It's doesn't have realistic physics, but it's easy to overlook that given the hours of things to try and to discover.

An extremely satisfying time sink. The more you play, the more you learn the more you can do until eventually you are 3d printing cruisers with custom missile bays. It's awesome but takes time to master.

Bok gibi oyun, From the Depths oynamış bir insanım ve onda en azından teker teker bütün sistemleri öğretiyordu. Bu oyun ondan da karmaşık ama hiçbir şey öğretmiyor, hayatsızsanız saatlerce debelenip öğrenirsiniz. Bununla uğraşacağınıza ders falan çalışın bu nedir yahu?

i would recommend this game as a base game its bare use your imagination and craft small rover to towering behemoths or a small skid ship to galaxy destroying gigantic destroyers all you need is your trusty starter rover and a drill .Not to mention the plethora of mods available to make the solar system come alive

lovely game, me and the homies had so much fun with it and it also being able to use tons of stuff we planning to make a super star destroyer

You know its a fun game other than you quite literally need a masters in architecture and engineering to even play this game but other than that its alright

I absolutely love this game - bought it on both console and PC. Bought it for my friend who is now addicted.

Still terrible at making ships that don't look like Bricks. Excityed for SE2 - 100/10 the games just that good.

I have been playing this game for years, and I got to say I love it. It is pretty easy understand and to get started for new players, and yet is still fun and challenging for skilled players. It has both a great survival mode, and a great creative mode. It also offers both easy and hard game modes for survival. If you are a easy survival person this game is for you, and if you are a hard survival person this game is for you. You will have fun in single player, and in multiplayer because there both great. Space engineers is a great game!

---{ 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 if they have a spare computer

---{ Game Size }---
☐ Floppy Disk
☐ Old Fashioned
☐ Workable
☑ Big
☐ Will eat 10% of your 1TB hard drive
☐ You will want an entire hard drive to hold it
☐ You will need to invest in a black hole to hold all the data

---{ Difficulty }---
☐ Just press 'W'
☐ Easy
☐ Easy to learn / Hard to master
☐ Significant brain usage
☑ Difficult
☐ Dark Souls

---{ Grind }---
☐ Nothing to grind
☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks
☐ Isn't necessary to progress
☐ Average grind level
☑ Too much grind
☐ You'll need a second life for grinding

---{ Story }---
☐ No Story
☑ Some lore
☐ Average
☐ Good
☐ Lovely
☐ It'll replace your life

---{ Game Time }---
☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee
☐ Short
☐ Average
☐ Long
☑ To infinity and beyond

---{ Price }---
☐ It's free!
☑ Worth the price
☐ If it's on sale
☐ If u have some spare money left
☐ Not recommended
☐ You could also just burn your money

---{ Bugs }---
☐ Never heard of
☐ Minor bugs
☑ Can get annoying
☐ ARK: Survival Evolved
☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs

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very fun and love the physics, playing with friends makes it 10 times better i highly recommend

i do like this game but its developers are greedy as hell instead of puting out free updates they make you pay for everything they only care about cash

18 hours in playing a scripted mission as a bit of a sandbox (no jetpack sucks!). I've been enjoying figuring out the mechanics and building some simple bases and vehicles. It is a bit like adult erector set, legos, minecraft, and in space. If you are happy to explore building in a varied sandbox with great mods, give it a try.

Truely an amazing game for those who want to just relax and build. An amazing community and plenty of servers for anyone to do what they want

stiff learning curve for combat good game though

Great game, but there is a second version, but you have to have better GPU.

I've been playing this game for years and, though I may take breaks for long periods of time, I always come back and I always love playing. I admittedly prefer playing with friends, and it's hard for me to truly enjoy this game solo, but that's just my personal preference.

I support their pricing and, even though buying the game with all the DLC is going to net you around $100 US you can still get all of the experience by playing the base game for $20 (even cheaper if you can catch it on sale). I appreciate that, even though they've released SE 2, they're still developing and supporting SE 1 as of the writing of this review.

If you're thinking you might want to try this, buy the base game on sale, grab a friend or two, and dive it. I think you'll be pleased with the game overall.

Spent 2 hours building a space ship and when i took off i smashed into my windmills.
Overall very fun game 10/10

I bought this game when it launched.
The game still feels incredibly empty.

Its just a "survival" sandbox game with nothing to keep you interested.
the only thing the game has going for it is the building mechanic. there isn't a reason for the survival mechanics other than an occasional distraction when outside a ship seat. you only need O2 and suit energy.

all the scenarios are half baked spawning you in with no direction. the point of a scenario is to give the player a direction to go on and enjoy the game. this misses the mark by a mile.
i don't remember any player made scenarios that make you feel like you're playing an actual game.
and the multiplayer is still bugged and laggy. im on fiber internet and MP still lags.

now that they're on SE2 and its probably going to feel just as empty. like a game thats forever stuck in apha build.

It took me four tries to get into the game. I had the advantage of not having to grind the stones in survival at first because I joined my sister's game. I just had to wait until she built a rover and could pick me up and deliver to her base.
I got hooked to it though and the most entertaining aspect for me is repairing stuff after something blows up. Out of 5 ships that we have now I had to repair three of them.
I've only seen Triton and some asteroids in space near the planet so I can't say about the rest of the solar system. Gotta finish building the big ship and explore!

This is an excellent sandbox game. Look to youtube for the really detailed instructions on how to play the game. Vanilla can become a little tedious after you get the hang of it. But the mods you can add are virtually endless and give a lot of replayability.