Space Engineers is a voxel-based sandbox game set in space and on planets. It is being developed and published by Czech Republic developer Keen Software House. Game-play of Space Engineers begins with the player selecting or joining a world with specific settings, such as the number of asteroids and the available starting equipment. When creating or editing a world, several advanced options are available to change how the player will interact with the world, and how the worlds will appear. This includes changing the speed with which several tools and machines will work, the size of the player’s inventory, and whether procedural generation will be used (effectively making the world infinite). Upon confirming the world settings, a loading screen appears while the world is generated. This screen consists of a random in-game screenshot as a backdrop, the game’s logo, an animated loading icon, and a randomly selected message at the centre. The message may be either a helpful game-play hint, or one of many quotations concerning space, science, and/or engineering. Many of these quotes are from notable scientists such as Isaac Newton, Galileo Galilei, Albert Einstein, as well as authors such as Arthur C. Clarke.

Space Engineers System Requirements

Minimum:

  • OS: Microsoft Windows 7 (latest SP) 64-bit
  • Processor: Intel i5 @ 3.0 GHz or higher (or AMD equivalent)
  • RAM: 8 GB RAM
  • Graphics: Geforce 750/Radeon R9 270X or higher
  • Storage: 25 GB available space

Recommended:

  • OS: Microsoft Windows 7 (latest SP) 64-bit
  • Processor: Intel Quad Core i7 @ 4.5 GHz or higher (or AMD equivalent)
  • RAM: 16 GB RAM
  • Graphics: Geforce 1070 GTX / Radeon RX Vega 56 or higher
  • Storage: 25 GB available space