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What the developers have to say:

“Space Engineers is an Early Access game, which means that it is still under development but already in a very playable state and contains a vast amount of new features that have been added since its first release (e.g. Multiplayer, Survival mode). The game is being improved on a regular basis through updates that add and polish features and content, optimizations and bug fixes.

We invite you to give us your feedback and suggestions to help us create the best game possible.

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Please be sure to read the list of current features before you buy the game. It will give you an insight on what is or isn't actually working: http://www.SpaceEngineersGame.com/features.html

Everything in the game is subject to change”

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"An Sandbox Game in Early Access, which is still worth a look, think Minecraft in Space with good graphics and different mechanics."

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25 December

Update 01.062 - Super-large worlds, Procedural asteroids and Exploration

This is the last update for this year so we decided to make it more special. It includes three very important new features: super-large worlds, procedural asteroids and exploration! With super-large worlds we have increased the size of the world to 1,000,000,000 km in diameter; this means that practically there are no boundaries and you can travel as far as you want without experiencing shaky movements and rotations. The “procedural asteroids” feature adds an infinite number of asteroids to the game world - all these asteroids are fully destructible and don’t consume RAM/memory. The exploration feature adds a practically infinite number of ships and stations to the game world, so there will always be something to discover, explore, acquire and conquer. For more details about the new features, please read Marek's blog post: http://blog.marekrosa.org/2014/12/space-engineers-super-large-worlds_17.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZF9Wnyss69k

Full list of new features and fixes: http://forums.keenswh.com/post?id=7217613

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18 December

Update 01.061 – Netgraph, Bugfixing #8

Netgraph has been added. This will help players to check their connection status with the server. It can also be used by non-dedicated servers to check the amount of used bandwidth. Another addition that we did is the option to disable block deformation and destruction (in world settings).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7l5z6XPA2Y

Full list of new features and fixes: http://forums.keenswh.com/post?id=7210524

EDIT 12/19/2014:
Update 01.061.014
- fixed issue with dropping items from inventory not working properly
- fixed issue with ship welders not welding blocks
- fixed issue with thrusters not damaging blocks
- fixed issue with tags not showing when publishing workshops items

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Reviews

“Space Engineers makes welding, joining and glazing seem like the best jobs in the world. It looks superb.”
Rock Paper Shotgun

“Space Engineers makes crashing spaceships into things look crazy fun”
Kotaku

“Space Engineers generates its own unique brand of fun, whether you're more interested in constructing things or blasting them to bits”
IGN

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About This Game

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. The game comes with two game modes: creative and survival.

Volumetric objects are structures composed from block-like modules interlocked in a grid. Volumetric objects behave like real physical objects with mass, inertia and velocity. Individual modules have real volume and storage capacity.

Space Engineers is inspired by reality and by how things work. Think about modern-day NASA technology extrapolated 60 years into the future. Space Engineers strives to follow the laws of physics and doesn't use technologies that wouldn't be feasible in the near future.

Space Engineers concentrates on construction aspects, but can be played as a tactical shooter as well. We expect players to avoid engaging in direct man-to-man combat and instead use their creativity and engineering skills to build war machines and fortifications. Space Engineers shouldn’t be about troops; it should be about the machinery you build.

Early Access

Game modes
- Creative – unlimited resources, instant building, no death
- Survival – realistic management of resources and inventory capacity; manual building; death and respawn
Single-player – you are the sole space engineer
Multiplayer - alpha version (not a final version)
- Creative and survival mode with your friends
- Cooperative and competitive
- Privacy customization: offline, private, friends only, public
- Max 16 players (this may increase in the future)
- Weapons on/off
- Copy-paste on/off
Scenarios
- Easy Start 1 – start on an asteroid platform with one large ship and two small ships
- Easy Start 2 – start in a green asteroid station with several large and small ships (this is a large scene!)
- Lone Survivor – start on an abandoned asteroid platform with no ships
- Crashed Red Ship – your mother ship just crashed...
- Two Platforms – competitive two-team multi-player world
- Asteroids – start in a rescue ship with very limited resources
- Empty World – no asteroids, no ships; suitable for creative mode
Dedicated servers - allow players to connect to a third party host, rather than using a player-host, in a peer-to-peer set-up. The result is a faster connection and a more fluent multiplayer performance with less lag
Ships (small and large ships – build them, pilot them and crush them
Space stations
First-person & Third-person
Super-large worlds – the size of the world to 1,000,000,000 km in diameter (almost infinite)
Procedural asteroids - adds an infinite number of asteroids to the game world
Exploration - adds an infinite number of ships and stations to the game world; discover, explore, acquire and conquer!
Drilling / harvesting
Manual building in survival mode – use welder to assemble blocks from components; use grinder to disassemble and reuse components
Deformable and destructible objects – real proportions, mass, storage capacity, integrity
Building blocks - light armor (cube, slope, corner), heavy armor, interior wall, interior light, small cockpit, large cockpit, cargo container(s), drill (character, large/small ship), ore detector, gravity generator, nuclear reactor, thruster, gyroscope, assembler, medical room, magnetic landing gears, spotlight, catwalk, cover wall, stairs, ramp, window(s), pillar, decoy, wheels, automated turrets, weapons, artificial mass, conveyor, collector, connector, merge block, camera, sensor, timer
Magnetic landing gears – attach your ship to a surface (another ship or asteroid)
Electricity - all blocks in a grid are wired in an electrical and computer network; electricity is generated by nuclear reactors
Gravity – produced by gravity generators. Spherical gravity generator also available.
Rotors – create rotating objects
Advanced rotors – able to function as a conveyor system
Refinery - process harvested ore to ingots
Assembler - manufacture components from ingots
Symmetry/Mirroring Mode - useful in creative mode when building structures that require symmetry
Weapons - automatic rifle, small and large explosive warheads, small ship gatling gun, small ship missile launcher
Solar panels - produce energy depending on the amount of light that they catch from the sun
World management – generate new worlds, “save as” to multiple copies, auto-save every 5 minutes (can be turned on/off), edit world settings
32-bit & 64-bit - 64-bit version expands the amount of objects, ships and asteroids (almost unlimited)
Steam Workshop - Share your creations with the Community (upload and download worlds)
Modding - world files, shaders, textures, 3D models
Localized interface (WIP) - Czech, Danish, Dutch, German, Icelandic, Polish, Spanish-Spain, Spanish-Latin America, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Italian, Portuguese-Brazil, Estonian, Norwegian, Swedish, Slovak, Ukrainian, Russian
Custom colors for blocks – Customize your creations by using any color you like
Cargo ships - auto-piloted vessels (miners, freighters and military) that carry ore, ingots, constructions components and other materials from sector to sector. They can be looted but beware, they often contain booby traps!
Environmental hazards – protect your character and your creations from meteor storms (Safe, Normal, Cataclysm, Armageddon)
Conveyor, Collector, Connector (IMPORTANT: this is a first work-in-progress version and a realistic version will be added later) - Conveyors move items from inventory to inventory. Collectors can collect small objects (ore, ingots, components, tools) into inventory. Connectors can throw items from inventory to space (in future update could be used to connect two ships/stations and transfer items)
Artificial mass – can be used to add gravity-affected mass to ships, useful in machine ships or cars
Wheels - use them with rotors and artificial mass to build vehicles
Automated turrets – gatling, missile and interior. Turrets are used mostly as defense mechanism rather than shooting other players. They aim on decoys (automatically by default), meteorites, missiles or all moving objects (eg. small/large ships) - targeting can be changed in the control panel
Large weapons - missile launcher (for large ships)
Large and small ship grinder and welder – assemble and disassemble blocks faster and in larger amount
Batteries - enables players to store the energy generated by solar panels or reactors at an efficiency rate of 80%
Pistons - offers the option to build more advanced machinery
Factions - create and join factions, determine ownership of blocks and manage the relations between them (hostile/ally). NOTE: Factions are currently Work-in-Progress. There are still many things to be added (eg. chat and communication) and some bugs/issues are yet to be fixed.
Remote ship control – control ships without being inside the ship’s cockpit (drones)
Remote turret control - control turrets directly
3D printing - export (CTRL+E) and 3D print the creations that you design in the game (http://www.SpaceEngineersGame.com/3d-printing.html)
Modding API - brings a lot of new possibilities to modders and allows them to alter the game by writing C# scripts which have access to in-game objects (WIP - more features will be added in the future)
Blueprints - save your ship or station on a blueprint and paste it into your game
Projector block – project blueprints and weld the projection
Sound block - reproduce predefined sounds such as alarm or siren for announcements

Please be sure to read the list of current features before you buy the game. It will give you an insight on what is or isn't actually working: http://www.SpaceEngineersGame.com/features.html

How to Play

Start by watching this video tutorial:
http://www.SpaceEngineersGame.com/how-to-play.html

Performance Notes

Space Engineers is in development and undergoing frequent optimizations. The performance will get better.

The performance depends on the complexity of your world and the configuration of your computer. Simple worlds run smoothly even on low-end computers, but a more complex world with rich object interactions could overload even high-end computers.

Please read our performance advices: http://www.SpaceEngineersGame.com/performance-advices.html

Minimum requirements represent the bare minimum to run simple scenes and don’t guarantee a perfect experience.

System Requirements

Minimum:

OS: Microsoft Windows XP (latest SP)
Processor: Intel Core2 Duo 2.0 GHz (or AMD equivalent)
Memory: 2 GB RAM
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 8800GT / ATI Radeon HD 3870 / Intel HD Graphics 4000
DirectX: Version 9.0c
Hard Drive: 2 GB available space
Sound Card: DirectX® compatible on-board
Additional Notes: No internet connection required to play the game