About This Game

CORE FEATURES

• Planets and moons – fully destructible & persistent, volumetric, atmosphere, gravity, climate zones
  
• Game modes
  - Creative – unlimited resources, instant building, no death
  - Survival – realistic management of resources and inventory capacity; manual building; death/respawn

• Single-player – you are the sole space engineer
  
• Multiplayer
  - Creative and survival mode with your friends
  - Cooperative and competitive
  - Privacy customization: offline, private, friends only, public
  - Up to 16 players
  - Dedicated servers
  
• New game options
  - Scenarios - offer linear story with action-packed gameplay, while the majority of Space Engineers scenarios feature unique sandbox environments where players create their own challenges.
  - Workshop worlds - offer worlds created by other players.
  - Custom worlds - offer variety of customizable worlds where you can start your own scenario.
  
• Customizable character - skins, colors, community market, male and female character
  
• Ships (small and large) – build and pilot them
  
• Space stations
  
• Planetary bases, outposts, cities
  
• First-person & Third-person
  
• Super-large worlds – the size of the world to 1,000,000,000 km in diameter (almost infinite)
  
• Procedural asteroids - 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
  
  
  
  
• Visual script editor - players can create missions and game modes which can be played by other players. Capture the flag, death-match, racing or campaign driven missions - all can be done by using the editor, with your own rules and designs! Even main campaign and game scenarios were created in this tool.
  
• Building blocks - over 200 blocks (gravity generators, jump drive, turrets, doors, landing gears, assembler, refinery, rotors, wheels, thrusters, pistons, wind turbine and many more)
  
• Programmable block - allows players to write small programs that will be executed in the game
  
• Electricity – all blocks in a grid are wired in an electrical and computer network; electricity is generated by nuclear reactors or various power sources
  
• Gravity – produced by planets and gravity generators. Spherical gravity generator also available.
  
• Symmetry/Mirroring – 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
  
• Steam Workshop – share your creations with the Community (upload and download worlds, blueprints, MODs, scripts)
  
• Localized interface
  - Official localization: English, Russian, Chinese
  - Community localization: Czech, Danish, Dutch, German, Icelandic, Polish, Spanish-Spain, Spanish-Latin America, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Italian, Portuguese-Brazil, Estonian, Norwegian, Swedish, Slovak, Ukrainian
  
• 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!
  
• Oxygen - take off character's helmet, generate oxygen out of ice by using the oxygen generator
  
• Hydrogen - hydrogen thrusters, hydrogen tanks and hydrogen bottles
  
• Factions - create and join factions, determine ownership of blocks and manage the relations between them (hostile/ally).
  
• Remote control – control ships and turrets without being inside
  
• Modding - world files, shaders, textures, 3D models
  
• 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
  
• Blueprints - save your ship or station on a blueprint and paste it into your game
  
• GPS - create, send, receive and manage GPS coordinates in the game
  
• Voxel hands - shape and form the asteroids and change their material (creative mode only)
  
• Xbox controller support
  
• Sounds – realistic and arcade mode

How to Play

Performance Notes