SpaceEngine

Space, space indeed.

For some advice, the game can take very very long to load up on first load, if you the controls are complicated then you probably accidentally selected aircraft of spacecraft mode, to fix it, go to the bottom left settings bit of the screen, on the right of the settings bit, there are 3 buttons, the leftmost one will fix the control issues and set it to wasd movement and most importantly, this game is not for everyone, the game cycle is;

Step 1; Find cool thing
Step 2: Look at cool thing
Step 3: Repeat

Some may find it boring, I am not one of them, the only thing I would potentially improve about this game is making a setting to get a 2D map of the selected planet in a Mercator of other projection style, like space-engine, also some kind of button to automatically go to the highest or lowest point on a planet, also being able to see the highest point on a planet, not just the lowest below sea level.

But really it is an absolutely amazing game, if you like space or know someone who likes space, go by it for yourself or them.

The game is very cool and fun for space lovers! there are some downsides like surface on planets, but its a amazing game overall. i totally recomend it!

love it, would be absolutely amazing if there were parallel universes aswell

This game is very fun and i've been only playing for 3 days the plus side is that i can zoom in to planets and the details of the planets are amazingly detailed

I love this as a tool to understand what I am looking at while I am stargazing. From everything I can tell the the scale, distance, and timing of everything is shockingly accurate. Also while being very beautiful to look at.

beautiful graphics. surprisingly worked on my non gaming PC with the textures all the way up. it can still run well on pretty low end devices

this was fun but even more fun with mods

This game is absolutely beautiful. If you're looking for a space game where you can just explore at your leisure without distractions, this is it. The game is as faithful a recreation of our observable universe (with some generated content) as it can get. If you know of a specific planet, star, nebula, or even black hole, it's in this game, and you can find it.

There are two modes to explore the universe; Planetarium and Flight Simulator. Planetarium comes with an in-game tutorial that teaches you all the basics of movement and what the interface does, and while Flight Simulator doesn't have a tutorial, there is an Online Manual button you can click that will take you to an unofficial, but recommended, page.

I personally recommend just picking Planetarium, going through the tutorial, and just flying around the universe in Free Mode, as this will give you the best beginner experience. The controls for Free Mode are WASD to move forwards, backwards, and slide left and right. R and F move your camera up and down respectively. Holding down the left mouse button moves your camera to look around. Scrolling up on the mouse wheel increases your movement speed, and scrolling down decreases it.

Clicking on any object in the game will give you its basic information on the left of your screen, and right clicking them will give you some options. You even have the option to land on any planet, star, moon, or asteroid! However, you're just a camera, and while you can zip about on the surface of these objects, you have no avatar to walk around with. There are also no cities on any planets, including Earth, and no aliens to encounter.

The game is massive, and there are literally trillions of stars to explore. However, I strongly urge players to take it slow when playing this game. Many planets will appear similar to others, as do stars and moons. Don't burn yourself out exploring too quickly. The game is best enjoyed at a slow pace.

This might be one of the most fascinating "games" ever made. It would be even better if they added complex randomly generated vegetation on planets with multicellular life, like different types of alien trees. Enough variation that you are unlikely to find the same types of vegetation on two different planets. And make planets with life rarer at the same time so they're harder to find.
Someone should make a mod for this.

8.5/10 game.

Yea it's great, I recommend turning off procedurally generated planets and galaxies to get a sense of how little we know about the universe. There isn't too much stuff to do (vaguely speaking), close-up terrain isn't as great as something like Outerra Anteworld, alas this one is purely focused on Earth. Lots of options and controls to tinker with, Steam Workshop items were underwhelming with some good ones. Gives existential crisis or fear at times, just set up your expectations this is really an overpowered planetarium observatory for chill experiences.

After the year $year-of-the-linux-desktop it surely will serve as an intergalactic map for lost ones in space!

this game is really cool it is a good simulation. there is one problem it does crash a lot but still good game

While most games strive to delight their audience with fast paced game play, this game manages to bring emptiness and existential dread at 1 astronomical unit per second!
4/4!

This is the dream come true for people who wish to explore space in its full glory. A brilliant software unlike any other, crafted like never before.

So far the best and one of the most realistic space simulators I've played. Love how easy it is to navigate to different systems and Love the graphics, also really great with mods!

This game is a space nerd's wet dream. I can also see this being the base for an epic space game similar to elite dangerous or no man's sky (more the former than the latter, visually and realistically).....someone should do that, actually.

Unbelievable. Stunning graphics and and practically a perfect scale of the universe. Billions of light years big

Its a cool game that you can explore the universe ik some of galaxies are generated and nebulaes too but its really good i recommend you to play

This game is probably the greatest space game on steam, the graphics are insanely realistic and the fact you can land on planets is just amazing

really good game with cool graphics but i recently updated my pc and my planetarium planets are gone but still a great game

This is an amazing experience. It is stunningly beautiful and at times mysterious. I recommend it to anyone who wants to experience moving beyond an earth centered view of reality. They did an outstanding job on this and it is still under development. You will not be disappointed.

You think you have an understanding of the scale of the universe, and then you exit the Milky Way. Then you go to a nearby galaxy like Andromeda or Triangulum. Then you fly through the field of galaxies at 200 million light years a second, only to meet a seemingly infinite spread of galaxies.

What an impressive tool to not only explore the known universe that we've charted, but to also get an idea of what might be out there based on scientific procedural generation. Absolutely recommend buying this full price, the developers deserve the support for their work.

This game is incredible its so amazing to see and play.

An absolutely amazing game for anyone with even the slightest interest in astronomy.

It is an awesome game and is totally worth the money. You can do so many things such as land on planets, look at nebula's up close, check out black holes etc. Space Engine is amazing.

I absolutely love it! There’s really not much else to say. It’s a breathtaking experience that captures the sheer vastness of the universe while showcasing the immense power of black holes and neutron stars for example. Space Engine is a truly impressive and solid piece of software/game.

That said, I do have a few wishes for improvement:

- Customizable units and values – It would be great to have more flexibility in displaying data (e.g., temperatures, age, gravity) to make them easier to read and understand.
- Faster development – Progress seems a bit slow, with very few new features in the past two years. For example I would love a Side-by-side object comparison – a feature that allows you to directly compare two celestial objects, like placing Earth next to a black hole to better grasp the size difference and compare their data.

Overall, Space Engine is an incredible experience, but with a few additions, it could be even better!

I really liked how the graphics were when I first got the game, I think this has both style and graphics and realism for people who are interested in space.

If you couldn't see that interesting astronomical event that occurs once every few decades or lifetimes very well, you can set the time and date, look outwards from Earth, and have the game point out the exact object in the sky.
You can explore around and see amazing parts of the universe.
Runs well, no crashes, high quality graphics, great in VR.
Easy recommend!

The game crashes alot on my pc. The game is fun, and simulations are cool.

very cool, great to explore. I have not experienced any thing like this. very fun

This is barely a game. It is more of a digital interstellar gallery than a game.

Gave me a crazy perspective check when I played it.

10/10

I did enjoy this game very much but sadly I was required to refund it because everthing looked messed up im assuming it was just my computer not beign able to run it but I hope to try again.

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really good graphifics in the game

Only get if you really like looking at cool space stuff, because the visuals are indeed simply amazing here. But the "game" part, even if there is any "game" here, is severely lacking: as a spacesim, you won't get anything here beyond orbital mechanics and a simple warp drive.

the atmosphere, (of the entire game), is beautiful and the amount of things you can find is truly fine dining. landing on the planets and getting cool shots is always fun. the only criticism i have is that the game doesn't pull you back into playing it again, until you actually decide to reopen the game. i know the game is literally a simulator and therefore it doesn't have a way to do that, but when i'm choosing a game to play, this one rarely goes on the table. but, this game looks like it is going in a good direction. it is still in early access at the time of this review, so i will edit my review if anything changes.

Space Engine is an absolutely beautiful way to explore our universe, and a fantastic tool for photo and video. My desktop backgrounds for the last couple months have just been different screenshots I've gotten in this game.

I randomly get curious about celestial bodies and this satisfies that curiosity pretty well. If you wanna really experience this game for all its worth: you'll need a decent rig to run it. I have a Ryzen 5 7600 and a GForce RTX 3060 and the graphics card is definitely the bottleneck.

It works on Steam Deck it does get glitchy a bit but it does work! and its a beautiful game i recommend 100%.

Two words. Holy shit. In only 20 hours this has been a truly amazing experience. It allows you to explore our universe with no limits. Every exoplanet, every star system, every galaxy, every single light year. This game has single-handedly given me an immense interest in astronomy I never knew I had. I could not recommend it more.

P.S. the graphics are beautiful

Really cool game 10/10 Just can get a little boring sometimes

Played countless hours of the free version 0.9.7.2, but decided to pick up the Steam version for all the additions over the years and to support the dev. Needless to say, the Steam version is worth it to pick up. These devs know what they’re doing and have continued to update the game since 2014. That’s commitment!

Its definitely a chill game where you can just chill and explore the universe, and you can see some good sights too! it would be better if you could go to cities on earth, but i recommend it! 9/10

good but pls update the water and fix inside the rings of any planet. when i look inside the rings it lags my game cause tons of ice starts randomly flying 3000 miles everywhere which causes lag, unless if its just my game is broken from a mod

fun exploring
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i love going to different stars and plants and etc

Fun game, the whole universe, and even tho i for some reason learned that i hate or am scared to be near big planets, i still enjoy it :)

Want to feel insignificant? Want to be put in your proper place? Want to come closer to grasping how ineffectual your life and everything you believe is? Put away those binders and re-holster that lube, cowboy. This isn't a copy-paste craigslist personals dominatrix ad (sadly, those have been discontinued); this is the universe, bro.

Satisfy your curiosities about the incomprehensible vastness of the space surrounding the tiny little planet you inhabit. This simulator comes about as close as you can get to actually realizing the scale of distance that exists between all known things in the universe - and to those unknown, procedural generation has entered the chat to fill in the blanks.

Start at earth, and pan out to the moon, then to the next few planets in our system, shoot past the sun, and blast your way out of the Milky Way, and onto any star, planet, moon, nebula, nova, asteroid or galaxy you can think of. There is no objective here. This is simply a fascinating exploratory mission rendered with beautiful visuals to anyone curious to experience the absolute vastness of the cosmos. Point and click travel allows you to go literally anywhere and see renderings of celestial objects in stunning photo-realistic detail (until procedural generation fills in the gaps).

If you need objective-oriented, progressive gameplay this is not going to do anything for you. But, if any part of you has a child-like curiosity about the wonders of space, there is no experience like it. The atmospheric soundtrack is on some kinda Interstellar vibe, leaving you with a profoundly enlightening experience as you float around in a world you were born too early to ever experience otherwise.

BTW - I did not to drugs while playing this game, but it would indubitably be magnitudes better blown out of your mind. Js.

Quest 3 controllers don't work properly and you can't freely move using them, so if you bought it for VR you can use it only with keyboard and mouse really. The sim is pretty cool though.

This isn't really a game per say, it's more of an exploration simulator that gives you the entire universe to check out on your own time. You can go literally anywhere in the cosmos that you want to see, and it's all in stunning realistic detail. To me this is what I feel is missing from a lot of modern space exploration games, is the sense of wonder and freedom you have to go out and explore space and all that it has to offer. Most space games I've played so far restrict you to only certain areas, are just loading screens of when you want to land on a planet (Starfield), or they're restrictive to a point where you can't even leave your own ship (Elite Dangerous). This however to me is how I feel it should be done, It isn't so much about finding animals and loot but just seeing the beautiful landscapes and sights on other worlds.
Another thing I really love about Space engine is that it gives you the tools to actually do a bit of your own world building, and since a lot of what you find is procedurally generated, you will come across something new all the time. I've had a lot of fun finding different alien worlds, landing on them to see what they're like, and writing up entire bits of lore regarding said worlds.

Space Engine is absolutely Incredible, If you are someone who loves Astronomy, this is the perfect program for you!

amazing amazing amazing amazing game!!!!!!! so much SPACE fr!! honestly relaxing too!!

I really recommend buying this little space game. I'm a space and astrophysics fan and i have never seen a game from this genre that has been this detailed. This is the best space game for relaxing or just exploring. Nobody can change my mind about that