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Games like Space Engineers

Enjoyed Space Engineers? Here are 6 games that play in a similar way – such as Medieval Engineers, Scrap Mechanic, Starbase. Each shows the cheapest key price from the stores we compare.

About Space Engineers: Space Engineers is a sandbox engineering game in which you design and build ships, stations and planetary bases in a fully destructible environment. Players explore planets and space, mine resources, survive hazards and fight alone or with friends in Creative or Survival modes. Every block and voxel has mass, inertia and damage, so ships can break apart and terrain can be drilled and reshaped. The game is grounded in real engineering and plausible near-future technology, focusing on machines assembled block by block rather than magic or scripted scenes.

Updated 12 Nov 2026, 00:00 UTC · similar games are picked by AI from our catalogue based on game content (play style, setting, co-op) · descriptions based on official publisher information on Steam

About these games

Medieval Engineers

Medieval Engineers is a game about building and engineering: using medieval technology, players raise cities, castles and fortifications, assemble mechanical devices and engines, shape the terrain and mine underground. There is an entire planet to explore. The developers stick to the laws of physics and history and avoid any technology that was not available between the 5th and 15th centuries, and although construction is the focus, it can also be played as a survival game. It is the second engineering title from Keen Software House after Space Engineers; work on the original version ended in March 2020 and continues as Medieval Engineers Community Edition, run by the community.

Scrap Mechanic

Scrap Mechanic is a multiplayer survival sandbox adventure, built around a building system and physics, that you play with friends. Players crash-land on a distant agricultural planet where the Farmbots working the fields have gone haywire, and must survive in a dynamically generated open world full of enemies and treasure. Besides vehicles and bases, they can build automated machines, grow crops for ammunition, and dig down toward the planet's boiling core. Characters can be dressed in mixed clothing pieces, which are unlocked by completing missions.

Starbase

Starbase is a hybrid voxel/vertex space MMO set in a fully destructible, endlessly expanding universe where thousands of players share one persistent world. Playing as robots, players design and build spaceships and stations down to the smallest bolt, mine asteroids, craft, trade, haul cargo and fight. Deep physics simulation makes structural failures real, and in-game programming chips open the way to automation. Success is measured by ingenuity and teamwork rather than hours played.

Avorion

Avorion is a procedural co-op space sandbox in which players build their own spaceships from freely scalable blocks. It offers space battles, exploration, mining, trading, wars between factions and building your own empire. Players start at the edge of the galaxy and work their way toward its core, where danger grows but so do the rewards. The story revolves around a catastrophe that tore the galaxy apart several centuries ago, and around the alien Xsotan and a mysterious metal called ‘Avorion’.

Occupy Mars: The Game

A technical open-world survival sandbox about colonizing Mars, playable alone or in online co-op. The player explores regions of the planet, searches for valuable resources and picks a place for a city – ideally fairly level ground with access to underground water where night temperatures do not drop too far. They build and upgrade the base, secure water, oxygen, food and electricity, and repair broken parts with realistic electronic components and tools. In the garage they modify vehicles, set up mining rigs, greenhouses and tanks, and deal with things that sometimes explode or refuse to go as planned.

Interstellar Rift

Interstellar Rift is an open world starship simulator focused on building your own ship and interacting with other players. You design vessels in an editor deck by deck, from small exploration craft to huge battleships. Other players can join your crew or build rival fleets against you, while pirates and opposing fleets may attack in ship-versus-ship battles or close-quarters boarding fights. The galaxy is also threatened by the Skrill, a hostile alien race that emerged from strange rifts in space.