Kerbal Space Program — Steam gift

Kerbal Space Program: build a rocket, conquer orbit, land a Kerbal on the Mun

Kerbal Space Program is a sim of your very own space program, where you design rockets and spacecraft from scratch out of dozens of parts, fill the tanks, stack the stages and send a crew of little green Kerbals flying. The game left Steam Early Access on April 27, 2015 (developed by Squad, published by Private Division) and over the years became a genre benchmark: there are no scripted “on-rails” flights here — everything runs on believable physics and real orbital mechanics.

Buying from us, you get the base Kerbal Space Program game as a gift straight to your Steam account. Below we break down what's in the game, how the gift delivery works and what to check before ordering.

What the base game includes

The base version is the full KSP with all the core modes:

• Sandbox — every part unlocked and unlimited resources: build anything from a tiny probe to a multi-stage monster.
• Career — run a space agency with contracts, money, reputation and space-center building upgrades.
• Science — earn science points from experiments and unlock new tech without the money management.

You get the Kerbol system with its planets and moons: the Mun, Minmus, Duna, Jool and more — each with its own gravity and atmosphere (or none at all). Orbital docking, refueling, gravity assists, rover missions and bases on other worlds are all part of the base game.

The Making History and Breaking Ground expansions

KSP has two official expansions, but they are not included in this gift and are bought separately on top of the base game:

• Making History (released March 13, 2018) — a mission builder plus history-inspired parts for recreating real-world rockets.
• Breaking Ground (released May 30, 2019) — surface science, robotic parts (hinges, pistons, rotors) and planetary surface features.

Both expansions require the base game — which is exactly what this gift delivers.

How the Steam gift delivery works

We deliver KSP as a Steam Gift via a bot. We only need two things from you: your Steam friend invite link and your account region. The bot then adds itself to your friends, sends the gift (usually within a couple of minutes) and, once delivered, automatically removes itself — you don't need to accept anything. Steam Guard is not required.

Two mandatory conditions, without which Steam won't accept the gift:

• Your Steam account region matches the gift region.
• Kerbal Space Program is not already owned on that account — you can't accept a gift for a game you already have.

Your profile settings must also allow friend requests, otherwise the bot can't reach you.

Why KSP eats hundreds of hours

The real magic is learning from your own mistakes. Your first rocket falls apart on the pad, your second never reaches orbit, and then you suddenly catch a transfer window to Duna and finally get how real ballistics work. Add the huge Steam Workshop modding scene — from parts and autopilots to entirely new planetary systems — and you get a sandbox that never runs out.

A first flight for newcomers

Don't worry if rocket science sounds intimidating — KSP is built to be learned step by step. Start in Career or Science mode, where the tech tree drips parts to you slowly so you're never drowning in options. A solid first goal is simply getting a Kerbal into a stable orbit and back home alive: it teaches you staging, throttle control, the gravity turn and re-entry all at once. From there the natural progression is a flyby of the Mun, then a landing, then a return — and before long you're planning interplanetary missions with refueling stops. The in-game maneuver-node planner shows you exactly where and how hard to burn, so the math is on your side. Pair that with a few quality-of-life mods from the Workshop and the learning curve turns into a genuinely addictive loop of small, hard-won wins.

Similar games in the catalog

If KSP clicked for you, check out the sequel — Kerbal Space Program 2 with new systems and interstellar travel. For large-scale building try Cities: Skylines, and fans of deep engineering sims should look at Factorio.

Place your order, enter your invite link and region, and meet your space program in Steam. 🚀