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Space Engineers 2 Early Access Space Engineers 2 is a playable Early Access Alpha sandbox focused on engineering, exploration, and colonization in a fully destructible universe. Design and build ships, stations, and planetary bases while uncovering the story of Miro and Ivan Sokol. Help shape the future of the Almagest system.
Players on Steam, last 48 hours| Poll | Players |
|---|---|
| 09:44 UTC | 782 |
| 05:43 UTC | 575 |
| 01:42 UTC | 794 |
| 30 Oct, 21:42 UTC | 1,201 |
| 30 Oct, 17:41 UTC | 1,116 |
| 30 Oct, 13:40 UTC | 828 |
| 30 Oct, 09:39 UTC | 581 |
| 30 Oct, 05:38 UTC | 488 |
| 30 Oct, 01:37 UTC | 773 |
| 29 Oct, 21:36 UTC | 1,125 |
| 29 Oct, 17:36 UTC | 1,096 |
| 29 Oct, 13:36 UTC | 711 |
Player counts over time, as we observed them.
Source: Steam Web API, ISteamUserStats/GetNumberOfCurrentPlayers. Full methodology
Player Retention| Month | Avg players | Kept | Compared with other games |
|---|---|---|---|
| LaunchFebruary 2025 | 136 | — | The busier of its first two months |
| 3 months onMay 2025 | 39 | 29% | About average (better than 57% of 9,121 other games) |
| 12 months onFebruary 2026 | 235 | 1.7× | Holds players well (better than 98% of 7,653 other games) |
Space Engineers 2 kept 29% of the average players it had at its launch in February 2025 after 3 months and 1.7× after 12 months. Monthly averages, ranked against every game we can score. How we count
Update ImpactSpace Engineers 2: Hotfix 4.0.0.3159 (22 Oct 2026): Players peaked at 2.3× the week before's average. In the week after, players averaged 16% more than the week before.
| Update | Peak After | Change |
|---|---|---|
| Space Engineers 2: Hotfix 4.0.0.315922 Oct 2026 · week before: 2.7 of 7 days | 1,908 (2.3×) | +16% |
| Space Engineers 2: Hotfix 4.0.0.315520 Oct 2026 · week before: 1 of 7 days; next update 2 days later | 1,908 (2.3×) | +25% |
Average players over the 7 days before and after each update post, and the most at once in the week after. Updates since we started counting this game’s players. How we count
Players By Month| Month | Average | Change | Change % | Peak |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| October 2026Oct 2026 (so far) (from 19 Oct) | 905 | +308 | +51.6% | 1,908 |
| September 2026Sept 2026 | 597 | −229 | −27.7% | 1,333 |
| August 2026Aug 2026 | 827 | −136 | −14.2% | 1,736 |
| July 2026Jul 2026 | 963 | +750 | +353.1% | 2,355 |
| June 2026Jun 2026 | 213 | −71 | −25% | 487 |
| May 2026May 2026 | 283 | −116 | −29% | 632 |
| April 2026Apr 2026 | 399 | +72 | +22% | 851 |
| March 2026Mar 2026 | 327 | +92 | +39.3% | 1,227 |
| February 2026Feb 2026 | 235 | −50 | −17.7% | 477 |
| January 2026Jan 2026 | 285 | −620 | −68.5% | 783 |
| December 2025Dec 2025 | 905 | +864 | +2,078.1% | 4,485 |
| November 2025Nov 2025 | 42 | +16 | +60.4% | 141 |
| October 2025Oct 2025 | 26 | −3 | −10.3% | 65 |
| September 2025Sept 2025 | 29 | −10 | −25.3% | 73 |
| August 2025Aug 2025 | 39 | +1 | +1.4% | 73 |
| July 2025Jul 2025 | 38 | −8 | −16.7% | 87 |
| June 2025Jun 2025 | 46 | +7 | +17.2% | 131 |
| May 2025May 2025 | 39 | −12 | −23.8% | 85 |
| April 2025Apr 2025 | 51 | −5 | −8.5% | 179 |
| March 2025Mar 2025 | 56 | −80 | −58.7% | 239 |
| February 2025Feb 2025 | 136 | — | — | 564 |
Average and peak concurrent players each month, and the change in average players from the month before. Months before October 2026 are from a licensed historical archive.
