Space Engineers

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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
100,662
Positive
90%
Followers
347,467
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
Space Sandbox Building Open World Survival Craft Multiplayer Survival Simulation Open World Physics Crafting Destruction Co-op Futuristic Sci-fi Indie Singleplayer Action Strategy Adventure Early Access
Revenue (estimated, gross)~$84.2msomewhere between $37.4m and $92.9m · roughly 2M–5M copies

Review count and SteamSpy's owner range agree well enough to narrow the estimate down to this band. Multiplied by $18.58, the average price these copies actually sold for — weighted from the price history rather than taken from the $19.99 launch price. That is 7% below list price on average. Before Steam's cut, VAT and refunds. How these numbers are calculated.

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History

87 data points since Aug 7, 2026. Gaps mean nothing changed — the value carries forward.

Revenue (est.) ~$83.9m → ~$84.2m
See data from Oct 2013 with a Plus account
Reviews 100,327 → 100,662
Followers 346,431 → 347,467
Concurrent players 4,201 → 4,201
Price $19.99 → $19.99
Positive reviews 89.7% → 89.6%

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. 350 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.

Lowest recorded price: $4.99 on Aug 25, 2025.

How crowded is this niche?

How full the niche around Space Engineers is — measured on the tags it leads with, against every other combination on Steam.

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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)
Terraria Terraria Re-Logic 2 titles 4 − Space − Building + 2D + Adventure $9.99 1,246,700 98% Mon, May 16, 2011 $463m
$231m – $463m
Rust Rust Facepunch Studios 5 titles 4 − Space − Sandbox + Crafting + Open World $39.99
$19.99
50%
1,175,694 87% Thu, Feb 08, 2018 $1.7b
$803m – $1.7b
Valheim Valheim Iron Gate AB first game 4 − Space − Sandbox + Online Co-Op + Open World $29.99 474,669 94% Wed, Sep 09, 2026 $431m
$216m – $431m
Project Zomboid Project Zomboid The Indie Stone first game 4 − Space − Building + Zombies + Open World $24.99 370,514 94% Fri, Nov 08, 2013 $307m
$184m – $368m
ASTRONEER ASTRONEER System Era Softworks 2 titles 4 − Sandbox − Building + Open World + Exploration $29.99 119,171 92% Tue, Feb 05, 2019 $132m
$62.9m – $132m

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