Games like Space Engineers
If Space Engineers is your kind of game, the closest matches are Medieval Engineers, Empyrion - Galactic Survival and Satisfactory — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its building system is stellar, community driven content updates and fantastic physics. 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 →About Space Engineers: 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.
Players who liked Space Engineers also play
Steam players who put hours into Space Engineers 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.
Medieval Engineers
WHY THIS
Shares mod support and an immersive mood with Space Engineers.
Top pick for Space Engineers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Space Engineers.
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!
Empyrion - Galactic Survival
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Space Engineers.
Second-strongest match for Space Engineers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Space Engineers.
Build and explore in a true space sandbox survival adventure. Construct mighty capital vessels, sprawling planetary settlements, and vast space stations in your galactic journey to discover the mysteries of Empyrion!
Satisfactory
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Space Engineers.
Third-strongest match for Space Engineers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Space Engineers.
Satisfactory is a first-person open-world factory building game with a dash of exploration and combat. Play alone or with friends, explore an alien planet, create multi-story factories, and enter conveyor belt heaven!
No Man's Sky
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Space Engineers.
Ranked #4 for Space Engineers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Space Engineers.
No Man's Sky is a game about exploration and survival in an infinite procedurally generated universe.
Rust
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Space Engineers.
Ranked #5 for Space Engineers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Space Engineers.
The only aim in Rust is to survive. Everything wants you to die - the island’s wildlife, other inhabitants, the environment, and other survivors. Do whatever it takes to last another night.
Starbound
WHY THIS
Shares mod support with Space Engineers.
Ranked #6 for Space Engineers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Space Engineers.
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...
Project Zomboid
WHY THIS
Shares mod support and an immersive mood with Space Engineers.
Ranked #7 for Space Engineers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Space Engineers.
Project Zomboid is the ultimate in zombie survival. Alone or in MP: you loot, build, craft, fight, farm and fish in a struggle to survive. A hardcore RPG skillset, a vast map, massively customisable sandbox and a cute tutorial raccoon await the unwary. So how will you die? All it takes is a bite..
FortressCraft Evolved!
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Space Engineers.
Ranked #8 for Space Engineers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Space Engineers.
FortressCraft Evolved is a unique blend of Voxel Landscapes, Tower Defense, Crafting, Logistics, Exploration, Combat and Assembly lines. Players begin by crash-landing on a strange alien world, left with only a small handful of starting machines.
Reviewers mention these as similar to Space Engineers
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Satisfactory
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Space Engineers.
Reviewers of Space Engineers cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Space Engineers.
Satisfactory is a first-person open-world factory building game with a dash of exploration and combat. Play alone or with friends, explore an alien planet, create multi-story factories, and enter conveyor belt heaven!
Elite Dangerous
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Space Engineers.
Reviewers of Space Engineers cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Strategy with Space Engineers.
Take control of your own starship and blaze your trail in an ever-changing galaxy. Master the arts of combat, mining and trade or venture out into the unknown across a 1:1 scale universe.
Stellaris
WHY THIS
Shares mod support and an immersive mood with Space Engineers.
Reviewers of Space Engineers cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Space Engineers.
Explore a galaxy full of wonders in this sci-fi grand strategy game from Paradox Development Studios. Interact with diverse alien races, discover strange new worlds with unexpected events and expand the reach of your empire. Each new adventure holds almost limitless possibilities.
No Man's Sky
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Space Engineers.
Reviewers of Space Engineers cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Space Engineers.
No Man's Sky is a game about exploration and survival in an infinite procedurally generated universe.
ASTRONEER
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Space Engineers.
Reviewers of Space Engineers cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with Space Engineers.
Interact with strange new worlds in a unique and tactile way, molding the environment itself as if it were clay in your hands. Build your base, master resource management, automate your production lines, and more as you unravel the mysteries of the universe, alone or with friends.
Minecraft: Story Mode - A Telltale Games Series
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Space Engineers cross-mention this title as a similar play.
Episode 1 is now FREE - for a limited time! In Minecraft: Story Mode, playing as either a male or female hero named 'Jesse,' you’ll embark on a perilous adventure across the Overworld, through the Nether, to the End, and beyond.
Space City - Build Your Empire
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Space Engineers cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Space Engineers.
A sci-fi turn-based strategy that will make you immerse yourself in a new world.
Stormworks: Build and Rescue
WHY THIS
Shares mod support and an immersive mood with Space Engineers.
Reviewers of Space Engineers cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Simulation with Space Engineers.
Join a world where you design, create and pilot your own air sea rescue service. Release your inner hero as you battle fierce storms out at sea to rescue those in need.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Space Engineers at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Space Engineers on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Space Engineers.
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.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Space Engineers on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Space Engineers.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
Titanfall® 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~55% under Space Engineers on Steam right now. Shares Action with Space Engineers.
Respawn Entertainment gives you the most advanced titan technology in its new, single player campaign & multiplayer experience. Combine & conquer with new titans & pilots, deadlier weapons, & customization and progression systems that help you and your titan flow as one unstoppable killing force.
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Space Engineers on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Space Engineers.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
WEBFISHING
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Space Engineers on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Space Engineers.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under Space Engineers on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Space Engineers.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Space Engineers on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Space Engineers.
Zombies are invading your home, and the only defense is your arsenal of plants! Armed with an alien nursery-worth of zombie-zapping plants like peashooters and cherry bombs, you'll need to think fast and plant faster to stop dozens of types of zombies dead in their tracks.
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under Space Engineers on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Space Engineers.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Space Engineers.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Space Engineers.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Space Engineers.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Space Engineers.
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.
NGU IDLE
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Space Engineers.
NGU Idle is a Free To Play Idle game that's full of weird humor, tons of upgrades and hundreds of hours of content! Try out NGU Idle today and experience the joy of Numbers Going Up!
The Expendabros
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Space Engineers.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
Steam Engine Simulator
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Space Engineers.
The Steam Engine Simulator shown on AngeTheGreat's YouTube channel.
Iron Snout
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Space Engineers.
Iron Snout is a fast, colorful and brutal fighting game in which you will be helping a piglet fight for its life against hordes of wolves.
Narrow it down
Head-to-head comparisons
More from Keen Software House
Other recommendable Steam games by Keen Software House, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Medieval Engineers
WHY THIS
Shares mod support and an immersive mood with Space Engineers.
Another title from Keen Software House, the studio behind Space Engineers. Shares Action and Strategy with Space Engineers.
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!
Space Engineers 2
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Space Engineers.
Another title from Keen Software House, the studio behind Space Engineers. Shares Action and Strategy with Space Engineers.
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.
Miner Wars 2081
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Space Engineers.
Another title from Keen Software House, the studio behind Space Engineers. Shares Action and Indie with Space Engineers.
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. Shares Action and Indie with Space Engineers.
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.
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Satisfactory
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Space Engineers.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Space Engineers.
Satisfactory is a first-person open-world factory building game with a dash of exploration and combat. Play alone or with friends, explore an alien planet, create multi-story factories, and enter conveyor belt heaven!
No Man's Sky
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Space Engineers.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action with Space Engineers.
No Man's Sky is a game about exploration and survival in an infinite procedurally generated universe.
Project Zomboid
WHY THIS
Shares mod support and an immersive mood with Space Engineers.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Simulation with Space Engineers.
Project Zomboid is the ultimate in zombie survival. Alone or in MP: you loot, build, craft, fight, farm and fish in a struggle to survive. A hardcore RPG skillset, a vast map, massively customisable sandbox and a cute tutorial raccoon await the unwary. So how will you die? All it takes is a bite..
Frequently asked about Space Engineers
- Does Space Engineers work on Steam Deck?
- Space Engineers is currently rated Unsupported on Steam Deck. It may not launch or may have significant issues that block normal play.
- How much does Space Engineers cost?
- Space Engineers is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Space Engineers have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Space Engineers supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Cross-Platform Multiplayer, Online PvP).
- What games are most similar to Space Engineers?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Space Engineers are Medieval Engineers, Empyrion - Galactic Survival, Satisfactory.
- Who developed Space Engineers?
- Space Engineers was developed by Keen Software House.
imho.run ranks Steam game alternatives using a mix of collaborative filtering (ALS / iALS / EASE / LightGCN), content scoring over genres, categories, Steam tags, developers, and publishers, plus AI-extracted vibes mined from review text. The page above is generated in seed mode anchored on Space Engineers.
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