The WhatsNext verdict
For Players who enjoy designing, building, and piloting their own machines in a physics-driven space sandbox.: Ship and station construction, piloting, and asteroid mining let you turn engineering ideas into working machines. Tradeoff: The open-ended building focus asks you to supply your own goals and tolerate the complexity of maintaining large creations.
What it does best
simulator
strategy
science fiction
survival
The setup
What you are walking into
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.
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