Space Engineers

You have to buy every DLC to play the game. beware before buying

Just needs more to explore... Seriously only 5 planets and 3 moons?! Not saying it has to be the next No Mans Sky but come on, really????

I had some fun, but as an Engineering student Calculus Homework gives me less of a headache xD

Game crashes the moment gunfire goes off, and the dedicated server hosting has no native Linux support. The official guides to playing this game being youtube videos is also discouraging, and there's a lack of written guides in general.

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I really want to give a thumbs up because this is definitely a good game, but I'm going to speak about the beginners experience that I had. I spent about 3 hours learning the ropes, or so I thought. I did the tutorial level, and for what it's worth it was fun. Then I got on the next day and wanted to get a raw experience, so I started a survival world. That's where the fun stopped. I had to restart several times after getting my vehicle stuck in a pit, and only later learned about the zero gravity feature that helps get it unstuck. So much for that tutorial. Then I found a research facility and, expecting trouble, parked a few hundred meters away while I checked it out by foot. Triggered an alarm, and after hiding for a few minutes, looted the place and went back to my vehicle and they blew it up. Never went after me personally, just zipped straight to my vehicle way beyond the trees. I still never saw what they attacked with either. Given that the vehicle has your only refining and assembling capabilities, once you lose it before constructing a base, you may as well start over, so I did. Then, this is like the 7th restart at this point, I find a crashed ship. I think it's the coolest thing, a little project I can mark on my GPS and work on from time to time. Nope. Apparently, I have to "research" the parts before I can claim them, things like the thrusters and whatnot. Research? Huh, must've missed that part of the tutorial, unless it just didn't exist. After admitting defeat again, I decide to loot what I can and leave, but after destroying something on the ship, it activates it's defenses or something and I get lit up upon leaving. I call it a night before I lose my mind. Next time I get on, I manage to actually get established. It's just a platform with a few production blocks and solar panels, but it felt good to have a base finally. I spend a few more minutes wrapping it up and have decided that, as far as the survival experience goes, this game has done a poor job of it. There's no real tutorial, and the little "good bot" helper thing is very much not helpful. It kept asking me to make ingots using the survival kit, but it only completed the objective after getting a refinery running, which requires me making a LOT of ingots already. Obtaining more advanced components has no clear path. Research is not well explained, if at all. I was just making whatever I could and hoping that something would trigger an unlock. I eventually got food going, but there was NO mention of food in the tutorial, so I was surprised to start taking damage after ignoring it at first. I also got randomly attacked by a wolf, really out of nowhere, so that was something. I know this is more of a creative game and the survival experience isn't very core to it, but what's even the point of it when it's so slow and clunky. I probably have to put in like 10 more hours in before I get a functioning spacecraft, that's how tedious it is to play it. If you are looking for something like No Man's Sky in terms of survival, this is definitely not the way to go. On the creative side of things, there are more complex engineering feats to do, and the physics are really fun to play with. I'd say this makes a better simulation than a game tbh.

меня отымели псы, меня отымела система строительства, меня отымела ферма водрослей, меня отмыел мой желудок. Советую

wtf is it with these space building games and there lack of proper in-game tutorials, how many hours would you like me to run around aimlessly? i dont get it its either a poorly put together tutorial or some tiring to read codex.

I get that this is just meant to be a sandbox, but even so it does stretch the realms of pointlessness a bit. I got to the point where I could have built a ship to go into space but by then I could just not be bothered to actually do it. I used to play Empyrion, which I quit because there were so many issues with the implementation. SE is better built, but much less of a game underneath it. Maybe its just not aimed at me.

Put hours and hours into the game durring beta having so much fun. A year or two later buy it; play it and it doesn't feel the same. The community is different, game is less sandboxy and more focused on soft objectives, and it some how feels more empty. I think the community really made this game before and the silly small scenarios you can get into, but I don't think it's worth the price. Not only does it cost money, but also sells in game cosmetics. Along wit that, by releasing the beta for free I physically couldn't a refund within the 2 hours I played post purchase. My beta hours were combined with the current ones breaking it essentially; I've already told steam about everything and it doesn't change a singular thing. To be a sandbox game and hold my hand really tightly is annoying.