Developer Keen Software House has announced that its construction-focussed sandbox game Space Engineers will be leaving Steam Early Access next week, on February 28th.

It's been a long road for Space Engineers; the game, which initially launched on Steam in 2013, will have been in early access for almost five and a half years by the time its official Version 1.0 release rolls around next week.

That lengthy gestation period isn't too much of a surprise, however, given that Space Engineers is an incredibly ambitious game. Described as "sandbox game about engineering, construction, exploration and survival in space and on planets", it gives players the chance to build everything from planetary outposts to space stations and space ships, piloting the latter through the depths of space in order to explore further and, hopefully, survive.

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