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.

Volumetric objects are structures composed from block-like modules interlocked in a grid. Volumetric objects behave like real physical objects with mass, inertia and velocity. Individual modules have real volume and storage capacity.

Space Engineers is inspired by reality and by how things work. Think about modern-day NASA technology extrapolated 60 years into the future. Space Engineers strives to follow the laws of physics and doesn't use technologies that wouldn't be feasible in the near future.

Space Engineers concentrates on construction aspects, but can be played as a tactical shooter as well. We expect players to avoid engaging in direct man-to-man combat and instead use their creativity and engineering skills to build war machines and fortifications. Space Engineers shouldn’t be about troops; it should be about the machinery you build.

● Game modes

• Creative – unlimited resources, instant building, no death
• Survival – realistic management of resources and inventory capacity; manual building; death/respawn ● Single-player – you are the sole space engineer ● Multiplayer
• Creative and survival mode with your friends
• Cooperative and competitive
• Privacy customization: offline, private, friends only, public
• Max 16 players (this may increase in the future)
• Weapons on/off
• Copy-paste on/off ● Scenarios
• Easy Start 1 – start on an asteroid platform with one large ship and two small ships
• Easy Start 2 – start in a green asteroid station with several large and small ships (large scene!)
• Lone Survivor – start on an abandoned asteroid platform with no ships
• Crashed Red Ship – your mother ship just crashed...
• Two Platforms – competitive two-team multi-player world
• Asteroids – start in a rescue ship with very limited resources
• Empty World – no asteroids, no ships; suitable for creative mode ● Dedicated servers - allow players to connect to a third party host, rather than using a player-host, in a peer-to-peer set-up. The result is a faster connection and a more fluent multiplayer performance with less lag ● Ships (small and large) – build and pilot them ● Space stations ● First-person & Third-person ● Super-large worlds – the size of the world to 1,000,000,000 km in diameter (almost infinite) ● Procedural asteroids - adds an infinite number of asteroids to the game world ● Exploration - adds an infinite number of ships and stations to the game world; discover, explore, acquire and conquer! ● Drilling / harvesting ● Manual building in survival mode – use welder to assemble blocks from components; use grinder to disassemble and reuse components ● Deformable and destructible objects – real proportions, mass, storage capacity, integrity ● Building blocks - light armor (cube, slope, corner), heavy armor, interior wall, interior light, small cockpit, large cockpit, cargo container(s), drill (character, large/small ship), ore detector, gravity generator, nuclear reactor, thruster, gyroscope, assembler, medical room, magnetic landing gears, spotlight, catwalk, cover wall, stairs, ramp, window(s), pillar, decoy, wheels, automated turrets, weapons, artificial mass, conveyor, collector, connector, merge block, camera, timer, text panel ● Magnetic landing gears – attach your ship to a surface (another ship or asteroid) ● Electricity – all blocks in a grid are wired in an electrical and computer network; electricity is generated by nuclear reactors ● Gravity – produced by gravity generators. Spherical gravity generator also available. ● Rotors – create rotating objects ● Advanced rotors – able to function as a conveyor system ● Refinery – process harvested ore to ingots ● Assembler – manufacture components from ingots ● Oxygen - take off character's helmet, generate oxygen out of ice by using the oxygen generator ● Symmetry/Mirroring – useful in creative mode when building structures that require symmetry ● Weapons – automatic rifle, small and large explosive warheads, small ship gatling gun, small ship missile launcher ● Large weapons - missile launcher (for large ships) ● Solar panels - produce energy depending on the amount of light that they catch from the sun ● World management – generate new worlds, “save as” to multiple copies, auto-save every 5 minutes (can be turned on/off), edit world settings ● 32-bit & 64-bit – 64-bit version expands the amount of objects, ships and asteroids (almost unlimited) ● Steam Workshop – share your creations with the Community (upload and download worlds) ● Modding - world files, shaders, textures, 3D models ● Localized interface (work in progress) – Czech, Danish, Dutch, German, Icelandic, Polish, Spanish-Spain, Spanish-Latin America, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Italian, Portuguese-Brazil, Estonian, Norwegian, Swedish, Slovak, Ukrainian, Russian ● Custom colors for blocks and astronaut's suite – Customize your character's suite or your creations by using any color you like ● Cargo ships - auto-piloted vessels (miners, freighters and military) that carry ore, ingots, constructions components and other materials from sector to sector. They can be looted but beware, they often contain booby traps! ● Environmental hazards – protect your character and your creations from meteor storms (Safe, Normal, Cataclysm, Armageddon) ● Conveyor, Collector, Connector - Conveyors move items from inventory to inventory. Collectors can collect small objects (ore, ingots, components, tools) into inventory. Connectors can throw items from inventory to space, connect two ships, share electricity, give access to control panel and transfer items. Gameplay note: Explanation of pull & push principles in conveyor system ● Artificial mass – can be used to add gravity-affected mass to ships, useful in machine ships or cars ● Wheels - use them with rotors and artificial mass to build vehicles ● Automated turrets – gatling, missile and interior. Turrets are used mostly as defense mechanism rather than shooting other players. They aim on decoys (automatically by default), meteorites, missiles or all moving objects (eg. small/large ships) - targeting can be changed in the control panel ● Large/small ship grinder and welder – assemble and disassemble blocks faster and in larger amount ● Batteries - enables players to store the energy generated by solar panels or reactors at an efficiency rate of 80%
  • Pistons - offers the option to build more advanced machinery ● Factions - create and join factions, determine ownership of blocks and manage the relations between them (hostile/ally). NOTE: Factions are currently Work-in-Progress. There are still many things to be added (eg. chat and communication) and some bugs/issues are yet to be fixed. ● Remote ship control – control ships without being inside the ship’s cockpit (drones) ● Remote turret control - control turrets directly ● 3D printing - export (CTRL+ALT+E) and 3D print the creations that you design in the game (Space Engineers 3DPrint service) ● Modding API - brings a lot of new possibilities to modders and allows them to alter the game by writing C# scripts which have access to in-game objects (WIP - more features will be added in the future) ● Blueprints - save your ship or station on a blueprint and paste it into your game ● Projector block – project blueprints and weld the projection ● Sensor block - detects ships, palyers, asteroids, stations, floating objects and their state (friendly, neutral or enemy) and ownership ● Sound block - reproduce predefined sounds such as alarm or siren for announcements ● Programmable block - allows players to write small programs that will be executed in the game ● Communication – chat between players and factions ● GPS - create, send, receive and manage GPS coordinates in the game ● Voxel hands - shape and form the asteroids and change their material (creative mode only)

Platform

PC

Developer(s)

Keen Software House

Publishers(s)

Keen Software House

Genres(s)

Sandbox, Simulation

NA Release Date

October 23, 2013

EU Release Date

October 24, 2014

AUS Release Date

October 30, 2014

ESRB Rating

Teen

PEGI Rating

PEGI 12

ACB Rating

G

MVGL User Score

6.9 by 55 user(s)

MVGL Difficulty

2.2500

Composer(s)

Karel Antonin

Website

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