Space Engineers 2
Single-player space sandbox for building and destroying ships
Keen Software House · Released Jan 27, 2025 · Early Access
ActionIndieSimulationStrategyEarly Access
- Reviews
- Mostly Positive
- 75% of 5,602
- Recent reviews
- Mostly Positive
- 73% of 198 in 30 days
- Playing now
- 383
- peak 24h 422
- Steam Deck
- Playable
- Last update
- 3 weeks ago
- Aug 27, 2026
What is Space Engineers 2?
An early-access, single-player space engineering sandbox set in the Almagest System. After arriving on a damaged colony ship, you explore planets, moons, and asteroid fields, mine resources, reshape terrain, and build bases, machines, and spacecraft in an open world.
For you if...
- +you enjoy detailed shipbuilding and destructible physics sandboxes
- +you prefer solo, open-ended mining and exploration
Not for you if...
- −you want multiplayer in the current build
What players say
75% of 5,602 reviews are positive · 73% of 198 in the last 30 days
Players praise the unified-grid building tools and the foundation for creative ship construction. They most often criticize the sparse alpha content and simplified survival production, while performance problems, high memory use, and crashes are also recurring complaints.
Screenshots and trailer
Space Engineers 2 system requirements
As published by the developer.
Minimum
- OS
- Microsoft Windows 10 (latest SP) 64-bit
- Processor
- 4core 3GHz CPU / AMD Ryzen 5 2400G / Intel Core i3-10100F
- Graphics
- 4TFlop GPU / Radeon RX 5600 XT / Geforce 1660 Super
- Memory
- 16 GB RAM
- Storage
- 40 GB available space
- DirectX
- Version 12
- Notes
- No internet connection needed for single player
Recommended
- OS
- Microsoft Windows 10 (latest SP) 64-bit
- Processor
- 8core 3.6GHz CPU / AMD Ryzen 7 3700X / Intel i7 9700k
- Graphics
- 12TFlop GPU / Radeon RX 6800 / Geforce 2080 Ti / 3080
- Memory
- 16 GB RAM
- Storage
- 40 GB available space
- DirectX
- Version 12
- Notes
- No internet connection needed for single player
PC version details
DRM, required accounts, controller support and Steam features.
- DRM
- None declared on Steam
- Controller
- Keyboard and mouse
- Platforms
- Windows
- Steam features
- Workshop, Cloud saves, Family Sharing
Steam Deck: Playable
- Default controller config not fully functional
- Sometimes shows mouse, keyboard or non-Deck controller icons
- Some text entry requires manually opening the on-screen keyboard
- Some in-game text is small and may be hard to read
- Device compatibility warnings shown
- All functionality is accessible with the default controller configuration
- Default graphics settings perform well on Steam Deck
Multiplayer and co-op
Languages
Text only: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Czech, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Turkish.
Tags
- Sandbox
- Building
- Space
- Survival
- Sci-fi
- Simulation
- Physics
- Moddable
- Destruction
- Open World
- Singleplayer
- Exploration
- Realistic
- Science
- Strategy
- Mining
Recent updates
- Aug 27, 2026 · Space Engineers 2: Hotfix 2.4.0.93
- Aug 20, 2026 · Space Engineers 2: Hotfix 2.4.0.86
- Aug 17, 2026 · Space Engineers 2: “Smoother, Stable & Faster” Update Live Now!
- Aug 12, 2026 · Space Engineers 2: "Smoother, Stable & Faster" Update Launching August 17!
- Jul 16, 2026 · Space Engineers 2: Hotfix 2.3.0.2798
1 DLC available.
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