SpaceEngine overview

Overview

SpaceEngine comes from Cosmographic Software and is published by Cosmographic Software. It arrived on Steam on Jun 11, 2019, and it sits naturally among Single-player, Tracked Controller Support, VR Support, Steam Workshop, Steam Workshop, Partial Controller Support, and Family Sharing. SteamPulse tracks it across Windows and Steam so readers get a quick useful snapshot, not just a wall of numbers.

Players and reviews

SpaceEngine's latest SteamPulse observation recorded 228 players at 5 October 2026 - 12:44:08 UTC, with a tracked peak near 596. This peak is the highest value in the available SteamPulse record and may not include activity before tracking began. Player reaction is 96% positive across 15,983 reviews.

Language and system requirements

SpaceEngine is available in 18 languages including:

3 regional rating boards including dejus, steam germany, and igrs

Sales, recommendations, and streams

SpaceEngine has sold up to 338,000 units and has 15,951 Steam recommendations. The estimated VGI revenue is $6,800,000. On Twitch, 0 streamers are live with around 0 total watchers.

SpaceEngine overview details

SpaceEngine combines live player counts with reviews, pricing, platform support, Store metadata, dated player history, media, recent news, and related games.

Steam Store description

SpaceEngine is a 1:1 scale science-based Universe simulator, featuring billions upon billions of galaxies, nebulae, stars, and planets, all shown at their full real-world scale. Explore Earth and our neighboring worlds in the Solar System, orbit a black hole in a galaxy billions of light-years away, or visit anything in between seamlessly, with no transitions. All of time and space are yours to explore – cruise between the stars at a million times the speed of light, and accelerate time to watch the orbital motions of a thousand worlds play out before your eyes. Every planet you encounter in your journey will feature procedural 3D terrain with detailed textures. Everything you see in the sky – stars and galaxies, planets and moons, asteroids and comets, black holes and neutron stars, star clusters and nebulae – are yours to explore at the press of a button. Spacecraft with Newtonian physics and pilot-assist autopilot features (in early development but fully usable) are yours to fly anywhere in the universe in the Flight Simulator mode. SpaceEngine is also very friendly for creators of mods and add-ons – create your own planets, star systems, even galaxies, import your own spacecraft models, create custom GUI skins, and more, all easily sharable with others. With SpaceEngine, the possibilities are limitless. SpaceEngine Planetarium capabilities: Astronomy All types of celestial objects are represented: galaxies, nebulae, stars and star clusters, planets and moons, comets and asteroids. Known celestial objects are represented using data from catalogs: galaxies (NGC/IC), st…

SteamPulse editorial summary

SpaceEngine is listed as a game with $29.99. It supports Windows, belongs to Single-player, Tracked Controller Support, VR Support, Steam Workshop, Steam Workshop, Partial Controller Support, and Family Sharing, and is associated with Casual, Indie, Simulation, and Early Access. SteamPulse's latest observation records 228 players at 5 October 2026 - 12:44:08 UTC, a tracked peak of 596, and 96% positive reviews.

Overview tags

Early AccessOpen WorldCasualSci-fiSandboxSpaceSpace SimFlight3DScienceRealisticColorfulEducationSimulationRelaxing

Support and legal notes

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