Space Engineers
Worth it · Action · 2019
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
WAIT.
Worth it today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 50% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$19.99Worth it
Typical seasonal cut
$9.9950% offWorth it
- Cost per hourS
- $1.05/hr
- ReviewsA
- 89% of 134,665
- Genre rank
- Top 1% Action
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at $9.99 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 19h
- To 100%
- 382.5h 20.1x the story
- Finish
- 7% reach the ending
- Achievements
- 30
Price and sales
- Sales
- 89 on record
- Typical cut
- 50% off
- Steam low
- $4.99 August 2025
- Sale every
- 46d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 1,680 now
- Recent reviews
- 84% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 6% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 95% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
39% start to 7% finishSteam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
Across all 89 discounts in the 13 years tracked, the median cut is 50 percent, about 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.
Against its own genre its score lands in the top 1 percent. It is pricier than 94 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 95 percent. It outscores the games it most resembles, including Empyrion - Galactic Survival ($19.99, scores 55) and Stationeers ($34.99, scores 65).
More about Space Engineers
Steam's global achievement data puts about 7 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 19-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 16 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written October 2025 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 60 percent of the 5,127 reviews written there were positive, against 89 percent overall, and those are 5 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 19 hours. Doing everything runs 383, 20 times as long.
134,665 reviews stand behind that percentage.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Last discount ended 31 days ago.
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
Play Time 1039hrs. I bought the first 6 DLC like all fool thinking at the time it will help development and push for a finished 1.0 product. Hell little did I know another 14 DLC's will follow. My game does not look like the game today after all these DLC greed. There should be a rule/law stating for future devs. that a game has to state that there will be alot of DLC's buyer beware! Shoutout to #HELLOGAMES gold...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Could be a good game, but hard to navigate the menu with all the dlc advertisement everywhere, which, by the way, cost 5 times more than the base game and barely add anything individually. Basically Paradox at this point, bat at least you can usually hide dlc crap in their games.
Space Engineers is one of my favorite games of all time and it's also one of the most creative ones, so yes, I'll warmly recommend this game. However, after moving to Linux I've had some strange issues. The most annoying one is occasional weird, slow-motion like gameplay that feels like low FPS without actual being it. When it occur it's getting worse over time until re-log. It may have been fixed, I've haven't...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
Space Engineers is a sandbox engineering game where you design and build ships, stations, and planetary bases in a fully destructible environment. Explore planets and space, mine resources, survive hazards, and engage in combat alone or with friends in Creative or Survival modes.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, Geforce 750/Radeon R9 270X or higher, 35 GB of storage. Windows only.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Space Engineers scores 80/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/244850/space-engineersReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Nov 5, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.