
SpaceEngine stands out as one of the best Simulation/Casual titles in recent memory.
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Overwhelmingly Positive on Steam (96% positive from 15K reviews)
Rich open world to explore
Standout indie gem
Still in Early Access — content may be incomplete
SpaceEngine is an interactive 3D planetarium and astronomy software initially developed by Russian astronomer and programmer Vladimir Romanyuk. Development is now continued by Cosmographic Software, an American company founded by Romanyuk and the SpaceEngine Team in February 2022, based in Connecticut.

Runs well on modern hardware.
Last updated 18d ago
---{ Graphics }--- ☑ You forget what reality is ☐ Beautiful ☐ Good ☐ Decent ☐ Bad ☐ Don‘t look too long at it ☐ MS-DOS ---{ Gameplay }--- ☐ Very good ☐ Good ☐ It's just gameplay ☑ Mehh ☐ Watch paint dry instead ☐ Just don't ---{ Audio }--- ☐ Eargasm ☐ Very good ☐ Good ☑ Not too bad ☐ Bad ☐ I'm now deaf ---{ PC Requirements }--- ☐ Check if you can run paint ☐ Potato ☐ Decent ☐ Fast ☐ Rich boi ☑ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer ---{ Game Size }--- ☐ Floppy Disk ☐ Old Fashioned ☐ Workable ☐ Big ☑ Will eat 15% of your 1TB hard drive ☐ You will want an entire hard drive to hold it ☐ You will need to invest in a black hole to hold all the data ---{ Difficulty }--- ☐ Just press 'W' ☐ Easy ☑ Easy to learn / Hard to master ☐ Significant brain usage ☐ Difficult ☐ Dark Souls ---{ Grind }--- ☑ Nothing to grind ☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks ☐ Isn't necessary to progress ☐ Average grind level ☐ Too much grind ☐ You'll need a second life for grinding ---{ Story }--- ☑ No Story ☐ Some lore ☐ Average ☐ Good ☐ Lovely ☐ It'll replace your life ---{ Game Time }--- ☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee ☑ Short ☐ Average ☐ Long ☐ To infinity and beyond ---{ Price }--- ☐ It's free! ☐ Worth the price ☑ If it's on sale ☐ If u have some spare money left ☐ Not recommended ☐ You could also just burn your money ---{ Bugs }--- ☑ Never heard of ☐ Minor bugs ☐ Can get annoying ☐ ARK: Survival Evolved ☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs ---{ ? / 10 }--- ☐ 1 ☐ 2 ☐ 3 ☐ 4 ☐ 5 ☑ 6 ☐ 7 ☐ 8 ☐ 9 ☐ 10
Perfect education tools and play engine for my son about universe!
In other Space sim sandbox game, you often feel lost...space is vast and empty, traveling is slow. Here is a different experience, F3 search in your star database, type in any planet name, or click on a random star, Go, instant light years speed travel to the start and saw its details on the top left screen is super awesome! If you turn on all the layers (on the right side toolbox), all visible stars' name right in front of your eyes, while you traveling through the stars. Plus it has a universe map (procedural generation for uncharted areas), very impressive. It's a must-have software for every earthlings when traveling through the universe. P.s. devs please add my KOI-4878.01 to the database. The Star (KOI-4878): A yellow dwarf star (specifically a G-type main-sequence star) located about 1,075 light-years away from Earth in the Draco constellation. The Planet (KOI-4878.01): Discovered by the Kepler space telescope, this is a highly Earth-like exoplanet candidate. It orbits within its star's habitable zone, making it a very promising candidate for potentially supporting life if its existence is officially confirmed. It's humanity's second home, not Mars.
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