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The world's first science-based photorealistic interactive 3D planetarium that models the entire Universe, using procedural generation for uncharted areas.
SpaceEngine is a early access, open world and casual game
developed and published by Cosmographic Software.
Released on June 11th 2019 is available only on Windows.
It has received 12,617 reviews of which 12,102 were positive and 515 were negative resulting in an impressive rating of 9.3 out of 10. 😍
The game is currently priced at 17.39€ on Steam with a 40% discount.
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- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS: Windows 10
- Processor: Intel Core i3-3220T or AMD FX-4100
- Memory: 6 GB RAM
- Graphics: GeForce GTX 1050 Ti or Radeon RX 460 (4 GB)
- Storage: 4 GB available space
- VR Support: SteamVR or Oculus PC
- Additional Notes: Screen resolution of at least 1280x720 required to display all user interface elements. Graphics card must have at least 3 GB of VRAM.
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Space Engine isn't a game, it's a straight-up ego death simulator. I was thinking I’d have a nice, relaxing little space walk. Instead, I ended up having an existential crisis. I scrolled backwards for three hours straight, watched the entire Milky Way shrink into a pixel, and looked at trillions of galaxies turning into tiny dots of light. Then it hits you: everything and everyone you’ve ever known is just microscopic piece of cosmic dust in an endless void. But if you really want to lose your mind, go find a black hole. Flying into one is wild. The sky starts tripping out, warping and looping like you’re on some heavy psychedelics. Honestly, it’s cheaper than therapy. You’ll find yourself staring at your ceiling at 3 AM wondering why you were ever stressing over your silly little problems in the first place. Unironically horror game of the year. There are no jump scares, no aliens, no monsters. But the second you cross that event horizon? Reality straight-up snaps. The game engine literally gives up on physics and the whole screen fades to a blinding, empty white. It’s terrifying because it shows our absolute human limits—you’ve glitched into a space so hostile to existence that we can’t even comprehend what’s out there.
---{ 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 ---{ Audience }--- ☑ Kids ☑ Teens ☑ Adults ☐ Grandma ---{ 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
SpaceEngine gives me a feeling I can't accurately describe. It's like something between existential dread and nostalgia. As I drifted beyond our solar system, I watched our only home fade away and join the field of stars behind me. Then I wandered, clicking on a faint red dot which was an entire star system with its own planets. I opened the system viewer and singled out an airless terra, a world as big as our own but with the face of our moon. I landed on that dead world and pretended to walk on it. That was when I began to feel this feeling. For some reason, I felt as though I was returning to an old habit, revisiting an old hobby of drifting between the stars, like I had never called anywhere home before. I couldn't tell if it was somehow a memory of something I did before being born, or if I was seeing a glimpse into my own afterlife. I then had a keen awareness that I would die, and I somehow my consciousness would find itself among these same stars. This existentialism was different from what I felt before. The rising panic that I would usually feel was instead replaced with a wistful calm. I left that planet and drifted to its asteroid moon. I landed on it, and observed how the light from the planet and from the star made two shadows on the surface, as though I were standing in an outdoor set at night under two floodlamps back here on Earth. The feeling got stronger. Being so far from Sol, it felt like this was my new reality. For once, I didn't fear death. I couldn't, if it was going to be like this. And even if it won't be like this, at least I got to experience it. I decided to leave that star whose name I never bothered to write down. I watched the red dwarf fade away just like I did with Sol, and something in me kept begging me to go back. But I didn't. The memory of that planet was now just that: a memory. The star was gone now, and I kept going, and I knew then that I could never go back to that star. What seemed so permanent was now so fleeting. Our civilization won't last forever. Our species' future is not guaranteed. We live on time that we earned, not what we were granted. And what we did with that time was ensure that future generations would not have it as easy as we did, we who know what snow looks like, who almost never have to worry about water or where our waste went. Through greed, we altered our tiny speck of dust, putting it on a path that may not include us for much longer in its long, long life. Wandering the stars of the galaxy once more, I was now fully aware that each point of light was not just another world, but an entire collection of worlds. Fantastic landscapes and breathtaking sights all reduced to specks. I would never be able to experience all of it in my lifetime. But if I'm right, then I will have a trillion years to do so when I'm gone.
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Frequently Asked Questions
SpaceEngine is currently priced at 17.39€ on Steam.
Yes, SpaceEngine is currently available at a 40% discount. You can purchase it for 17.39€ on Steam.
Yes, SpaceEngine received 12,102 positive votes out of a total of 12,617 achieving an impressive rating of 9.32.
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SpaceEngine was developed and published by Cosmographic Software.
Yes, SpaceEngine is playable and fully supported on Windows.
No, SpaceEngine is not playable on MacOS.
No, SpaceEngine is not playable on Linux.
No, SpaceEngine is not playable on Steam Deck.
No, SpaceEngine is not playable on Steam Machine.
No, SpaceEngine does not support VR.
SpaceEngine is a single-player game.
Yes, there are 12 DLCs available for SpaceEngine. Explore additional content available for SpaceEngine on Steam.
Yes, SpaceEngine is fully integrated with Steam Workshop. Visit Steam Workshop.
No, SpaceEngine does not support Steam Remote Play.
Yes, SpaceEngine is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.
You can find solutions or submit a support ticket by visiting the Steam Support page for SpaceEngine.
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Developer
Cosmographic Software
Publisher
Cosmographic Software
Release
11 Jun 2019
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