Games like Space Engineers 2
If Space Engineers 2 is your kind of game, the closest matches are Space Travellers, Space Engineers and WorldDrive: Real Open-World Driving Simulator — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its enhanced building flexibility, foundation for future improvements and new grid system. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →Space Engineers 2 is a space sandbox building simulation with survival mechanics developed by Keen Software House, released in 2025 at $23.99 USD. Set in the Almagest system, the game follows the story of Miro and Ivan Sokol as players build ships, stations, and planetary bases in a destructible world. Core features include a grid-based building system, projection building, and mission-based progression. Players describe it as challenging and immersive, with reviewers highlighting the enhanced building flexibility and new grid system. The game supports single-player only, runs on Steam Deck, and holds a 74% positive rating from nearly 2,800 Steam reviews.
About Space Engineers 2: Space Engineers 2 is a sandbox about engineering and colonization where you build ships, stations, and planetary bases in a fully destructible world. Begin the story of Miro and Ivan Sokol, expand humanity’s foothold in the Almagest system, and fight to survive.
Players who liked Space Engineers 2 also play
Steam players who put hours into Space Engineers 2 also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.
Space Travellers
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Top pick for Space Engineers 2 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Space Engineers 2.
Space Travellers is a unique open-world sandbox space simulator set in the year 2343. Travel the galaxy, trade, explore unexplored worlds, fight, build bases and factories, forge alliances and experience new adventures!
Space Engineers
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Space Engineers 2.
Second-strongest match for Space Engineers 2 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Space Engineers 2.
Space Engineers is a sandbox engineering game where you design and build ships, stations, and planetary bases in a fully destructible environment. Explore planets and space, mine resources, survive hazards, and engage in combat alone or with friends in Creative or Survival modes.
WorldDrive: Real Open-World Driving Simulator
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Third-strongest match for Space Engineers 2 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Space Engineers 2.
Drive the roads you know. WorldDrive recreates real cities and roads at 1:1 scale—starting with a 30 km² region of Poland in Early Access. Free drive, explore, and share the road with realistic AI traffic.
死前30天
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Ranked #4 for Space Engineers 2 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Space Engineers 2.
你是工作在异星太空站上的员工，突然！全体船员感染了致命的太空病毒，生命只剩30天！而公司领导以不可抗力为由，拒绝赔付医疗保险！也拒绝任何救助！只剩30天了，食物不足，氧气不足，太空站上各种故障，脚下多颗神秘的异星球....你们要如何生存下去，对抗草菅人命的巨型公司？来！赶快行动起来！你只剩30天！
Gazebo Simulator
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Ranked #5 for Space Engineers 2 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Simulation with Space Engineers 2.
An absurdist 3D platformer.
FarWest Colony
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Ranked #6 for Space Engineers 2 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Space Engineers 2.
Lead a rebellion against tyranny in this open-world, survival sci-fi RPG game. Utilize alien technology to explore, build bases, craft, and farm. Prepare for an unequal combat to rescue humanity from tyranny and a mysterious deadly virus.
Artemishea
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Ranked #7 for Space Engineers 2 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Space Engineers 2.
Step into an unforgiving world of danger and fight to survive as you compete among other players to stay alive. Play as an animal and take down large prey while you progress along in your life. Hunt, survive and thrive in this land.
QANGA
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Shares an immersive mood with Space Engineers 2.
Ranked #8 for Space Engineers 2 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Space Engineers 2.
QANGA: 750 years after humanity's fall, you must survive in a shattered world where Earth itself demands vengeance. Tear through the fabric of space to face the Voss, awaken the ancient civilisation, and dare to challenge the Sanglines, born from the bowels of a world that condemned you.
Reviewers mention these as similar to Space Engineers 2
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Mortal Kombat 1
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Reviewers of Space Engineers 2 cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Space Engineers 2.
Discover a reborn Mortal Kombat™ Universe created by the Fire God Liu Kang. Mortal Kombat™ 1 ushers in a new era of the iconic franchise with a new fighting system, game modes, and fatalities!
Space Engineers
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Space Engineers 2.
Reviewers of Space Engineers 2 cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Strategy with Space Engineers 2.
Space Engineers is a sandbox engineering game where you design and build ships, stations, and planetary bases in a fully destructible environment. Explore planets and space, mine resources, survive hazards, and engage in combat alone or with friends in Creative or Survival modes.
Space Haven
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Shares an immersive mood with Space Engineers 2.
Reviewers of Space Engineers 2 cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Space Engineers 2.
Embark on a space voyage with your ragtag crew of civilians in search of a new home. Build spaceships tile by tile, create optimal gas conditions, manage the needs and moods of their crew, encounter other space-faring groups, and explore the universe in this spaceship colony simulation.
Starvector
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Reviewers of Space Engineers 2 cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Strategy with Space Engineers 2.
Eat a snack while you watch an entire planet burn in your image.
X3: Terran Conflict
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Shares an immersive mood with Space Engineers 2.
Reviewers of Space Engineers 2 cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Strategy with Space Engineers 2.
It is the year 2938. The long wished-for encounter of the X Universe and the Earth holds both joy and sorrow for the people. Despite flourishing trade, the clash of the diverse races, cultures and life forms creates new tensions, mistrust and open conflict that need to be overcome!
Starbound
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Reviewers of Space Engineers 2 cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Space Engineers 2.
You’ve fled your home, only to find yourself lost in space with a damaged ship. Your only option is to beam down to the planet below, repair your ship and set off to explore the universe...
X4: Foundations
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Shares an immersive mood with Space Engineers 2.
Reviewers of Space Engineers 2 cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Strategy with Space Engineers 2.
Your journey to building a vast space empire begins behind the controls of a single ship. Explore, trade, fight, and build as you rise to command fleets, stations, and entire economies in a living, fully simulated universe that reacts to every decision.
X2: The Threat
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Shares an immersive mood with Space Engineers 2.
Reviewers of Space Engineers 2 cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Space Engineers 2.
X²: The Threat is of a new generation of space simulator games, you play the role of Julian Gardna who continues the story set by X: Beyond The Frontier. The updated graphics engine gives the universe a fresher feel with newly designed ships and stations adding to the complexity of the universe.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Space Engineers 2 at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
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Priced ~79% under Space Engineers 2 on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Space Engineers 2.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Lethal Company
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Priced ~58% under Space Engineers 2 on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Space Engineers 2.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
Left 4 Dead 2
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Priced ~58% under Space Engineers 2 on Steam right now. Shares Action with Space Engineers 2.
Set in the zombie apocalypse, Left 4 Dead 2 is a co-operative action horror FPS takes you and your friends through the cities, swamps and cemeteries of the Deep South, from Savannah to New Orleans across five expansive campaigns.
Bloons TD 6
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Priced ~42% under Space Engineers 2 on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Space Engineers 2.
The Bloons are back and better than ever! Get ready for a massive 3D tower defense game designed to give you hours and hours of the best strategy gaming available.
People Playground
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Priced ~58% under Space Engineers 2 on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Space Engineers 2.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Fallout: New Vegas
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Priced ~58% under Space Engineers 2 on Steam right now. Shares Action with Space Engineers 2.
Welcome to Vegas. New Vegas. Enjoy your stay!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Space Engineers 2.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Space Engineers 2.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Space Engineers 2.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
The Looker
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Space Engineers 2.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
UNBEATABLE [white label]
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Space Engineers 2.
A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.
The Lab
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!
93, Kuindzhi
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Space Engineers 2.
Kuindzhi, 93 is an atmospheric first-person narrative vignette about an 18-year-old boy from Donbas. The story takes us to March 2022, when the world changed forever — into a space where the past, fears, and doubts find their voice.
DORONKO WANKO
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Simulation with Space Engineers 2.
『DORONKO WANKO』 is a DORONKO Action Game. In this game, You can become a cute, innocent Pomeranian, make your master's home messy and dirty. "Will the master be angry with me?" Don't worry. Because you are a sweet doggie.
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More from Keen Software House
Other recommendable Steam games by Keen Software House, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Space Engineers
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Space Engineers 2.
Another title from Keen Software House, the studio behind Space Engineers 2. Shares Action and Strategy with Space Engineers 2.
Space Engineers is a sandbox engineering game where you design and build ships, stations, and planetary bases in a fully destructible environment. Explore planets and space, mine resources, survive hazards, and engage in combat alone or with friends in Creative or Survival modes.
Medieval Engineers
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Space Engineers 2.
Another title from Keen Software House, the studio behind Space Engineers 2. Shares Action and Strategy with Space Engineers 2.
Medieval Engineers is a sandbox game about engineering, construction and the maintenance of architectural works and mechanical equipment using medieval technology. Players build castles; construct mechanical devices and underground mining. There is an entire planet to explore!
Miner Wars 2081
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Space Engineers 2.
Another title from Keen Software House, the studio behind Space Engineers 2. Shares Action and Indie with Space Engineers 2.
Operate an advanced mining ship in a fully destructible and open-world environment!
Miner Wars Arena
WHY THIS
Another title from Keen Software House, the studio behind Space Engineers 2. Shares Action and Indie with Space Engineers 2.
Fast-paced arcade game inspired by the classic PC game, Tunneler, with state-of-the-art top-down view, 2.5D gameplay in a fully destructible environment. Enjoy unlimited gameplay variation by adjusting arena settings, such as terrain, map size, number of AI-controlled bots, technology level and many more.
Frequently asked about Space Engineers 2
- Does Space Engineers 2 run on Steam Deck?
- Space Engineers 2 is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does Space Engineers 2 cost?
- Space Engineers 2 is listed on Steam at 23.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Space Engineers 2?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Space Engineers 2 are Space Travellers, Space Engineers, WorldDrive: Real Open-World Driving Simulator.
- Who developed Space Engineers 2?
- Space Engineers 2 was developed by Keen Software House.
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