Space Engineers
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Action indie game Space Engineers pairs a 2019 release with a large Steam footprint: 102,092 reviews and an 89% positive Very Positive rating. Developed and published by Keen Software House, it is self-published and launched at a $19.99 initial price.
Overview
Space Engineers is a 2019 Action game developed by Keen Software House and published by Keen Software House. On Steam it has gathered 102,101 player reviews, 89% of them positive, which counts as a very positive reception among indie titles in the Action category. The game is available on windows, and launched at $20. The pairing of developer Keen Software House with publisher Keen Software House is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Action projects reach the market. indielist's white-box method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 4.6 million to 10.7 million units, with the full Boxleiter factor breakdown shown on this page rather than a single black-box figure. Within indielist's catalog of indie games mapped to their studios, publishers, and funding, Space Engineers can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
102,101
Positive
89%
Steam appid
244850
Engine
Unknown
Sales estimate
vv1.04.6M to 10.7M
units (median: 7.7M)
≈ $52.5M to $122.4M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2019 | +15 |
| price_$20 | 0 |
| positive_89% | +10 |
| final NB | 75 |
Confidence range: median × [0.6, 1.4]. Boundary protection: NB ∈ [15, 150].
Methodology & limitations
Sales estimates use a multi-factor Boxleiter method against public Steam review counts.
They are not authoritative sales data. Actual sales can deviate by
±50% in either direction. Free-to-play games, deeply discounted titles, and games
with heavy bundle distribution have larger error margins. Algorithm version
v1.0.
indielist estimates lifetime unit sales for Space Engineers at roughly 4.6 million to 10.7 million copies, with a median around 7.7 million, derived from its 102,101 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $87.4M in net revenue after Steam's 30% cut, regional pricing, and refunds. Unlike black-box trackers, the full calculation is shown on this page: a base review-to-sales multiplier is adjusted for release year, launch price, review sentiment, studio size, and genre, and every adjustment is listed so developers, publishers, and investors can audit exactly how the figure was reached. The range itself reflects genuine uncertainty — review-to-sales ratios vary widely between games — so indielist publishes a low, median, and high band rather than a false-precision single number, and treats free-to-play, heavily discounted, and bundle-distributed titles as having wider error margins still.
Price history
90d · low $10.29Over the last 90 days the price ranged from $10.29 to $19.99, averaging $18.91 across 2 discount windows, with a historical low of $10.29 on 2026-06-02.
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Where to buy
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- Steam reference$19.99 Buy
- Humble Store$19.99 Buy
- Green Man Gaming
- GOG.com
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Platforms
windows
Genres
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Space Engineers sold?
- indielist estimates Space Engineers has sold between 4,594,545 and 10,720,605 units (median 7,657,575), derived from its 102,101 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter vv1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Space Engineers?
- Space Engineers was developed by Keen Software House and published by Keen Software House.
- When was Space Engineers released?
- Space Engineers was released in 2019.
- How many reviews does Space Engineers have on Steam?
- Space Engineers has 102,101 Steam reviews, of which 89% are positive.
Ecosystem
indielist positions Space Engineers within the Action segment so players can surface comparable titles by shared tags and genre rather than by storefront promotion. On the developer side, Keen Software House's other releases and Keen Software House's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Space Engineers sits among a studio's body of work and how its publisher's portfolio performs. Because indielist maps studios, publishers, games, and funding into one connected graph, the same Space Engineers page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Action game, developers studying how comparable projects were positioned and what they sold, and investors tracing which teams and labels are active in the space. A machine-readable markdown mirror of this page is published at the same path with a .md suffix for AI assistants, and its review, price, and sales-estimate figures are refreshed on a schedule rather than frozen at launch.