Space Engineers 2

Buy75%

Mostly Positive · 6k player reviews · High confidence

Worth it for the right player.

Steam Deck Playable
  • Windows

Keen Software House · Sandbox · Jan 27, 2025

Player review score
75%
Mostly Positive
Price
$23.99−20%
Lowest ever
Playing right now
All-time peak
Not charted

Steam only charts its most-played games, and this one isn’t among them.

Achievements
0
total to unlock
Steam does not publish achievement rarity.
Languages
9
Full audio0 of 9
Subtitles0 of 9

Should I buy Space Engineers 2?

Buy it if you like
  • Gameplay: 77 reviews raised it, mostly praise
  • Graphics: 39 reviews raised it, mostly praise
  • Linux compatibility: 12 reviews raised it, mostly praise
Think twice if you dislike
  • Crashes: 34 reviews raised it, mostly criticism
  • Multiplayer: 30 reviews raised it, mostly criticism
  • Bugs: 28 reviews raised it, mostly criticism

Based on 6k player reviews · updated

What players think

The recurring themes across 300 analysed reviews: what players praise, what divides them, and what to know.

Why players love itThings to know
33% of themes are praise8% are divided59% are complaints
Gameplay
Players who bring up Gameplay mostly praise it.
77 of 300 sampled reviews raised it
Id also do 30$ for Economy and so on for great deep mechanics that would really add to this game.
Graphics
Players who bring up Graphics mostly praise it.
39 of 300 sampled reviews raised it
Graphics are amazing thats it at its current stage, I just cant enjoy the graphics while it looks like screenshots of the game in a powerpoint presentation.
Linux compatibility
Players who bring up Linux compatibility mostly praise it.
12 of 300 sampled reviews raised it
I run on CachyOS (an Arch Linux build) on Proton from Steam and though i get a few warnings, it runs well (70+f/s avg; 59/92 f/s Lo/Hi) on my RTX 2070 Ryzen 5 3600 and 32GB ddr4 setup.
Story
Players who bring up Story mostly praise it.
9 of 300 sampled reviews raised it
In terms of story I love what they have done with the voiced story and colony ship, I hope to see the story get more fleshed out and polished as we get further into development.

Theme by theme

Scored on what reviews say about each topic, not the thumbs.

Players love
Gameplay77 reviews
Graphics39 reviews
Linux compatibility12 reviews
Story9 reviews
Divided opinion
Difficulty
75% still recommend
Players complain
Crashes
35% still recommend
Multiplayer
80% still recommend
Bugs
39% still recommend
Performance
59% still recommend
Interface
50% still recommend
Optimization
64% still recommend
Combat
60% still recommend

What you get

Can you play it alone, does a controller work, does it run on your machine.

Play modes

  • Single-player

Controller

Steam lists no controller support.

Store features

  • Family Sharing
  • Includes level editor
  • Steam Cloud
  • Steam Workshop

Platforms

  • Windows

Valve device support

Steam DeckPlayable
SteamOSPlayable

Should I buy it now?

Based on Steam price history.

Lowest ever recorded
$23.99$29.99−20%

That's the lowest price we've ever recorded.

8 points recordedtoday · $23.99

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