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Space Engineers: a space sandbox where you're the engineer
Space Engineers is a game about real engineering in open space, made by the Czech studio Keen Software House. It doesn't hand you a finished ship or lead you by the hand: everything that flies, mines and shoots is built by you — block by block, from actual components, on a fully destructible engine. Want a tiny mining drone? Build it. Want a kilometre-long battleship with a reactor, gravity generators and piston-driven hangar doors? Build that too, if you've got the resources and the engineering sense. Buying from us, you get Space Engineers delivered as a Steam gift straight to your account.
What kind of game is this
In short, it's a voxel sandbox about building and surviving in space and on planets. The world is made of blocks you can place, grind, weld and blow apart. Asteroids really get drilled hollow, a ship hull really crumples on impact, and a section torn off by an explosion really drifts away into the void along with whatever was inside it. All the fun grows out of that believable physics: your build works not because the developers scripted it to, but because you routed the power correctly, fitted enough thrusters and didn't forget about the centre of mass.
Survival vs Creative
There are two big modes, and they're about different things. Creative is pure construction: resources are infinite, blocks snap in instantly, and this is where people build dream stations, giant ships and entire orbital cities. Survival is engineering-flavoured survival: you have to find and drill ore, refine it, assemble components, and manage power, hydrogen, oxygen and hull integrity. A reactor failing in orbit becomes a small disaster you have to fix by hand. Survival is where Space Engineers truly shines as a game about the consequences of your engineering choices.
Ships, stations, planets
You can build almost anything. Small block grids suit drones, buggies and compact craft; large grids are for big ships and fixed bases. Pistons, hinges, rotors, wheels, conveyors, sorters, turrets and drilling rigs come together into working mechanisms: cranes, walking machines, folding solar arrays, automated mines. Planets are full-size, with gravity and atmosphere, so a ship built to lift off a planet and a ship built for vacuum are two different engineering problems. There's also a programmable block: if you're comfortable with scripting, you can automate entire systems with it.
Solo or with friends
Space Engineers plays great solo — a calm survival-construction toybox where you set your own goals. But it really opens up in multiplayer: shared mega-projects, co-op survival on a hostile planet, or PvP where two teams of engineers stress-test each other's ships with every weapon they've got. The Steam Workshop helps too — thousands of player-made ships, blueprints and mods you can plug in with a couple of clicks.
What the gift includes
You get the full base version of Space Engineers — the one that left Early Access on February 28, 2019 after several years of open development (Early Access began back in October 2013). It's the complete game with all modes, Workshop support and multiplayer, not a demo or an early build. Note: this is the original Space Engineers, not the later Space Engineers 2, which is a separate game we list on its own card when needed.
How we deliver: Steam gift
We send the game as a Steam Gift through our supplier's bot. We need two things from you: your Steam friend invite link and your account region. The bot then adds itself as your friend, sends the gift, and leaves your friend list after delivery — you don't need to accept the request manually, and Steam Guard isn't required. The whole thing usually takes a couple of minutes from checkout, though we don't promise a strict timing — occasionally it's a bit longer.
Two important conditions
- Matching region. Your Steam account region must match the gift region — we have 47 regional options, pick yours. If the regions don't match, Steam simply won't let you accept the gift.
- Game not already owned. You can't accept the gift on an account that already owns Space Engineers — that's a Steam limitation. Send it to an account that doesn't have the game yet.
Who it's for
Space Engineers is for people who love it when a game hands you tools instead of explanations and says "figure it out." If you enjoy working out why your ship tumbles on takeoff and reworking it until it flies straight, this is a hundreds-of-hours game for you. If you want something kindred in spirit, check out the sequel Space Engineers 2 and the same studio's medieval engineering project Medieval Engineers; and among hardcore survival games with realistic systems, Stationeers is a fine neighbour.
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