Space Engineers
Short description
Space Engineers is a sandbox game about engineering, construction, exploration and survival in space and on planets. Players build space ships, space stations, planetary outposts of various sizes and uses, pilot ships and travel through space to explore planets and gather resources to survive.
- Developer
- Keen Software House
- Publisher
- Keen Software House
- Release
- Thu, Feb 28, 2019
- Price
- $19.99
- Reviews
- 100,654
- Positive
- 90%
- Followers
- 347,277
- Owners (estimated)
- 2M – 5M
- Concurrent players
- 4,201
- Genres
- Action, Indie, Simulation, Strategy
- Features
- Multi-player, PvP, Online PvP, Co-op, Cross-Platform Multiplayer, Steam Workshop, Partial Controller Support, Includes level editor
- Tags
Review count and SteamSpy's owner range agree well enough to narrow the estimate down to this band. Multiplied by the $19.99 launch price — there is not enough price history for this game to weight the copies by what they actually sold for. Before Steam's cut, VAT and refunds. How these numbers are calculated.
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Media
History
81 data points since Jul 27, 2026. Gaps mean nothing changed — the value carries forward.
The revenue curve is an estimate, not a measurement. It is the only calculated series here: each interval takes the review growth of that period, multiplies it by the sales-per-review factor and by the price actually charged at the time, and adds the result to the running total. That is why it climbs more slowly through discount periods than the review curve next to it. The last point is the same figure quoted above — gross, before Steam's cut, VAT and refunds. How these numbers are calculated.
The blurred area is the rest of the history. 341 further data points reach back to Oct 1, 2013 — your plan shows the last 90 days of it. How far each series in particular reaches is written on its own chart; not every one of them goes back that far. The shape in the blurred area is decoration, not data: the figures are not in this page at all. Plus unlocks the complete series.
The dashed line marks Jul 28, 2026, when steamlense started measuring. Everything to its left was backfilled from public sources — monthly review counts from Steam, price changes from IsThereAnyDeal, monthly player averages from SteamCharts. Those are monthly figures, so the curve is coarser there — one point a month instead of one a day.
Lowest recorded price: $4.99 on Aug 25, 2025.
Similar games that found an audience
Games sharing at least 3 of this title's leading tags, with enough reviews to have gone somewhere. Ranked by how much they overlap, not by how big they are. − missing and + extra mark the tags each one does not share with Space Engineers. Studio counts the titles that developer has released — the closest thing to production scale that public data allows. It is not a budget, and nobody publishes those.
| Image | Name | Studio | Shared | Tag difference | Price | Reviews | Positive | Released | Revenue (estimated) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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Terraria | Re-Logic 2 titles | 4 | − Space − Building + 2D + Adventure | $9.99 | 1,246,426 | 98% | Mon, May 16, 2011 | $464m $231m – $464m |
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Rust | Facepunch Studios 5 titles | 4 | − Space − Sandbox + Crafting + Open World | $39.99 | 1,175,354 | 87% | Thu, Feb 08, 2018 | $1.7b $803m – $1.7b |
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Valheim | Iron Gate AB first game | 4 | − Space − Sandbox + Online Co-Op + Open World | $29.99 | 474,511 | 94% | Wed, Sep 09, 2026 | $431m $216m – $431m |
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Project Zomboid | The Indie Stone first game | 4 | − Space − Building + Zombies + Open World | $24.99 | 370,371 | 94% | Fri, Nov 08, 2013 | $417m $250m – $500m |
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ASTRONEER | System Era Softworks 2 titles | 4 | − Sandbox − Building + Open World + Exploration | $29.99 | 119,153 | 92% | Tue, Feb 05, 2019 | $150m $71.5m – $150m |
There are more like this. Your plan shows the 5 closest neighbours; Plus and Pro show up to 100 — enough to see the shape of a niche instead of a sample of it.