SpaceEngine
Fair · Strategy · 2019 · Early Access
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $29.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Reviews
- 96% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 6 GB of memory, GeForce GTX 1050 Ti or Radeon RX 460 (4 GB), 4 GB of storage. Windows only.
The world's first science-based photorealistic interactive 3D planetarium that models the entire Universe, using procedural generation for uncharted areas.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
- How long it takes to beat isn't in our data. The score is docked for the missing length.
The value story
December 2023 is where it bottomed out, at $17.99. Its cuts run 25 percent off as a rule. There have been 30 in the 7 years tracked, about 12 weeks apart.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 10 percent on value. It is pricier than 97 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Universe Sandbox ($29.99, scores 75) beats it on value, while it beats Kerbal Space Program 2 ($49.99, scores 2).
37 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written July 2020 to August 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 7 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 2,725 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 733 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 89 percent of the 2,963 reviews written there were positive, against 96 percent overall, and those are 19 percent of everything written about it.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
SpaceEngine scores 57/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 2, 2026. Length is not in our data, so the score is docked. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/314650/spaceengineReviews set the ceiling. With no length in our data, value sits at a neutral middle whatever the price, and the BANG Score is docked until a real length is known. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 26, price as of Oct 1.
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