Space engineers is a space sandbox game developed by Keen Software House. The engineer character that you play as in Space Engineers can’t die and can move around in different ways. He can turn on his jet pack that will let you move around in every direction to help you in building your contraptions. If you have a gravity system set up, you can turn the pack off and walk around on your creations.
Building your ships and stations is as simple as selecting the type of block of module of your choice and placing it on already existing blocks. There are simple cubes, curved ramps, catwalks, and doors when it comes to simply building an object. When it comes time to making an actual ship, there are lots of modules to add such as thrusters, reactors, lights, gyroscopes, cockpits, landing gear, guns, rockets, etc. It is also possible to change the color of everything that you build, instead of just having boring looking gray ships floating around everywhere.
Ships of all shapes and sizes are possible to make in Space Engineers. As long as you have thrusters, reactors, gyroscopes, landing gear, gravity generators, and a cockpit, doesn’t matter what additional shapes you add to your ship, it will fly as long as the required modules are present. Small and large ships are the current two sizes of ships that you can make, and each have slight differences in how the modules look on them, such as the small cockpit being an actual enclosure and the large cockpit simply being a chair and screen that you would expect to be inside of a starship.
Everything from chunks of rock floating out in space and the ships or stations that you build are all fully destructible. The only way to currently show off this destruction is by flying ships into another floating objects, since weapons are currently disabled until later. Objects won’t just simply explode and disappear, they can also crumple and become disfigured, and loose pieces of material will float off into space.
It is possible to share every ship that you create with other players in the Steam Workshop, as well as downloading what other players have also made. This will allow even the least creative players to have a great time with the game. There aren’t any current large plans for Space Engineers, but in general you can expect weapons to start working, multiplayer servers, more modes other than creative, and basic improvements on the game all around.
There are a fair amount of options that you can customize such as rebinding all keys, changing the field of view, and the basics such as volume and graphical quality. The graphics themselves are fairly good and they don’t need to be much better to enjoy the game. In terms of sound, there is so far just one song for you to listen to currently.
Space Engineers is 15 dollars with no other optional options to purchase, like bundles or founder packs. If you have enjoyed other sandbox games such as Minecraft or Starforge Alpha, Space Engineers is another game worth buying.
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