Space Engineers

Space Engineers is less a game and more a digital canvas for your inner astronaut and engineer. It throws you into the unforgiving expanse of space and hands you the tools to conquer it. Build anything from humble mining shuttles to colossal battleships, sprawling space stations, and even planetary outposts. I truly love this game and, while the unbounded freedom it provides is awesome, the lack of any real opponent in the sandbox diminishes the sense of achievement.
Where it shines:
Limitless Creativity Unleashed: Forget pre-fabricated ships. Space Engineers' voxel-based building system lets you manipulate blocks with incredible precision. Hollow out asteroids to create hidden bases, assemble intricate contraptions with rotors and pistons, or design the sleek starfighter of your dreams. The only limit is your imagination (and maybe your computer's processing power).
Newtonian Physics in Action: This isn't some arcade space shooter. Space Engineers takes physics seriously. Every thrust, collision, and rotation adheres to realistic principles. Meaning? Improperly balanced ships will tumble end over end, and a poorly placed thruster can send your creation spiraling into the void. This adds a layer of depth and challenge, forcing you to truly understand the principles of engineering.
A Galaxy of Gameplay: While the game offers scenarios, they are fairly staid and trivial. True freedom lies in defining your own objectives and with those created by the community.
Which brings us onto modding mania: The Space Engineers community is a powerhouse of creativity, churning out a constant stream of mods. These add everything from new blocks and tools to entirely new gameplay mechanics, weapons, and even planets. Want to build a Star Wars X-Wing? Pilot a Battlestar Galactica? There's probably a mod for that.
Where it falls flat:
Complexity Can Be Daunting: Prepare for a steep learning curve. Space Engineers doesn't hold your hand. Grasping the intricacies of shipbuilding, resource management, and the game's various systems takes time and effort. Newcomers may feel overwhelmed by the sheer depth and lack of clear direction.
The lack of any serious challenge in the universe, the lack of any real story or hostile NPC's tarnishes the challenge and achievements you make. While mods provide NPC encounters and provide you with an opponent, there's no foundational mechanics in place which make this meaningful.

It's complicated in the beginning, but REALLY fun, when you get the hang of it!
A very often used comparison is 'minecraft in space'. Well, OK, but not really...
You play your survival game mostly by building blocks, yes, but the planet you can (but don't have to) start on is actually round and can be flown around.
But what else makes it different from minecraft is, that there's a physics simulation and the stuff you're building could very well be a space station with the ability to move around.
Just because you build something, doesn't mean, that it'll be static forever.
There are moving parts available (pistons, rotors and hinges) to make your builds even morge interesting.
If you're interested, take a look at the possibilities via youtube.
The channels 'Splitsie', 'Zer0's Legion', 'JackRPG', 'Captain Jack', 'AndrewmanGaming', 'Lunar Kolony', 'LastStandGamers', 'Major Jon', 'Kelevra Engineering' and 'BlackArmor' help to get a understanding of the possibilities.
Go take a look and have fun!

Probably the best game I've ever played. There's not much you can't do in this. The hardest part is finding other people who love it.

I originally saw this game in 2014 when LastStandGamers was doing his lets play series. I bought it in 2015 as soon as I got a gaming PC and have absolutely fallen in love with this game. It forces you to come up with solutions to complex problems and even allows you to learn coding to implement scripts into the game. The major issue is the limitations of the building systems. You need to utilize glitches in order to get some really complex builds to work. This was being resolved in their now abandoned game Medieval Engineers which was just as fun as SE but failed to capture a player base due to the lack of updates. I have all their optional DLC and will continue to support the development. I can't wait to see what they improve with SE2.

---{ 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
---{ ? / 10 }---
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☐ 10

"Space is vast. My patience is not."
I bought this game expecting to build cool spaceships and live out my interstellar fantasies. Instead, I spent 12 hours designing a ship that looked like a majestic eagle, only for it to disintegrate into shrapnel the second I pressed the thrusters.
Space Engineers is a game about trial and error, where the error is always you. The physics are so realistic that even thinking about making a mistake will cause your entire base to collapse. You will spend hours mining, refining, and welding—only to crash into an asteroid because you sneezed while piloting.
Key highlights of my experience:
Spent 6 hours building a mining drone. Forgot to add a remote control. It’s now drifting in the void.
Landed on a planet, forgot gravity exists. My ship instantly became modern art.
Trusted a friend to “help” with welding. He welded me inside the ship.
Tried multiplayer. Server lag turned my ship into a vibrating death cube.
Accidentally pressed the wrong button. Entire base vented into space. Oxygen is a luxury anyway.
Would I recommend this game? Only if you enjoy pain, suffering, and the slow realization that aerospace engineering is not your calling.
11/10, currently stranded on a moon with no fuel. Send help.

What can I say? It's a space sandbox with thousands of mods to make things interesting. Enemies? You got it. Big honking space lasers? Sure thing. Wanna play as a Space Marine? Yeah, we got skins for that.

It may not be the best optimized game ever, but it's definitely a labor of love of a team of devs that never stopped innovating. Just the base game itself is hundreds and hundreds of hours of fun times to be had, and with mod support, those hundreds easily pass a thousand. Make your space dreams come true and grab a cosmic coffee while you're at it.