Space Engineers
Give it 4 hours
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours 1 in 3 reviews are negative (39%); after 20h it's 1 in 13 (8%).
- Fully opens up by hour 10.
- The game has no story achievements, so drop-off points can't be measured.
- Only 39% of owners have even the first achievement — the rest barely played.
When it gets good
Share of positive reviews by how many hours the reviewer had played when writing the review.
before it gets good opening up fully opened up
Based on all 134,784 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 296 reviews: 170.8h for positive, 39.4h for negative. Almost every game is rated lower in the first 2–3 hours: that window includes refunds and quick first impressions. What matters is how deep the dip is and how fast the game recovers.
Where players quit
Share of players who started the game and reached each story milestone. 100% is the most common achievement (39.1% of owners), so people who bought the game and never launched it don't count.
This game has no story achievements, so we can't tell where players quit.
All achievements (30)
story milestone ending side
- Number 5 Is Alive Connect your suit to power with less than 1% power remaining in Survival. 100%
- The Harder They Fall Destroy more than 1,000,000 Kg of cubes. 81%
- Lost In Space Spend more than 1 hour out of sight of other players on a MP server. 77%
- The Bigger They Are Build more than 1,000,000 Kg of cubes. 54%
- Lock And Load Kill an enemy with a rifle. 54%
- Win-Win Make peace with a faction. 42%
- The Story Begins Finish the First Jump scenario. 34%
- Going Green Build 25 Solar Panels while playing in Survival Mode. 32%
- Crayon Box Build and fly ship with more than 20 colors. 30%
- Giant Leap For Humankind Walk 1969 meters on a Moon. 25%
- Master Engineer 150+ hours. 23%
- Millionaire Club Get 1,000,000 Space Credits and join the club of the wealthiest people in the galaxy. 17%
- Declare War Declare war with different faction. 7.7%
- Explorer Visit all planets and moons in Survival mode. 7.2%
- Personality Crisis Change astronaut style (color or skin) 20 times in 10 minutes. 3.8%
- Death Wish Armageddon Mode for 5 hours in Survival. 3.6%
- The friend of the factions Befriend 3 factions; earning trust always pays well in the future. 3.3%
- Engineering Degree Finish all tasks of Learning to Survive scenario. 2.0%
- I See Dead Drones Survive 10 waves of drones in Never Surrender scenario. 2.0%
- I've Got Present For You Detonate a warhead that kills you and another player. 2.0%
- Monolith Get within 5 meter radius of the monolith in Survival. *Monoliths have to be in the world on loading time 2.0%
- Smile And Wave Wave to an enemy that is also waving back within 5 meters looking at you in Survival. 1.8%
- Bring It On Survive 30 waves of drones in Never Surrender scenario. 1.5%
- Promoted Engineer Complete the final objective of Learning to Survive scenario. 1.5%
- I'm Doing My Part Survive 100 waves of drones in Never Surrender scenario. 1.3%
- It Takes But One Complete all objectives without dying in Learning to Survive scenario. 1.3%
- Joint Operation Survive 10 waves with at least 1 other player in Never Surrender scenario. 1.3%
- Playing it cool Complete the Frostbite scenario 1.0%
- Planetesphobia Disable the pirate facility without entering the atmosphere in Learning to Survive scenario. 1.0%
- Scrap Delivery Destroy 1000 pirate drones in Never Surrender scenario. 0.8%