Space Engineers Is Rubbish-Don't Buy It

[Manticore]

I bought this game three years ago when it first came out and and put hundreds of hours into the game and it's still in early access/beta phase. Garbage.

I uninstalled this game a month ago and it's just decided to download an update for the Steam Workshop content although the game is no longer installed. Garbage.

It's currently a Steam weekend discount. I wouldn't waste a cent on it but that's up to you.

You'd be better off spending the money on a cup of coffee.

Here's a much better game than Space Engineers:

 

[PhanttoM]

I haven't looked into the game but if you want to convince others that it's a bad game, you're gonna have to provide actual information other than opinionated blanket statement: "It's garbage, I don't like it".
Otherwise, your post has about as much worth as the so called Steam Reviews...which are a complete waste of time.

WHY is it a bad game? Is it buggy? Are the core mechanics incomplete? Is the gameplay boring? Is the gameplay too fast paced? Compared to what standards?

As rude as it sounds, your personal opinion on its own is not information.

 

[LuxAeterna]

I bought this game three years ago when it first came out and and put hundreds of hours into the game and it's still in early access/beta phase. Garbage.

I uninstalled this game a month ago and it's just decided to download an update for the Steam Workshop content although the game is no longer installed. Garbage.

It's currently a Steam weekend discount. I wouldn't waste a cent on it but that's up to you.

You'd be better off spending the money on a cup of coffee.

Here's a much better game than Space Engineers:

I bought it last night on sale ~12USD... I'll make the decision myself tonight when I have time to play it but thanks for your opinion. I'd like more details as well as to why you don't like it.

 

[Flash_Baggins]

Space Engineers has had regular updates continuously throughout its development and theres a healthy modding community for it, its not a typical early access game which has been left and never will be finished as you are implying. Your second point is how steam works, not the game saying it wants you to play it.

 

[McGlashan]

I bought this game three years ago when it first came out and and put hundreds of hours into the game

I think I spent 20 minutes with the last game I played which turned out to be garbage (Overlord: Fellowship of Evil). There are great games I haven't spent hundreds of hours on.

 

[cpbtrading]

I think Space Engineers is/was a great game that went bad.

Mainly because the latest update has been very underhand. Putting lots of items that were 'mainstay' items into a catagory marked Experimental (think that is what they called it), then leaving a very basic vanilla game that they can take to release, whist saying anything in Experimental wasn't guaranteed to work, or would be worked on any more. That is really underhand for a developer. KSH has done it before with Miner Wars, they walked from that and it was not fully fleshed out. They are now going to, at some stage probably not too far ahead, walk away from SE. It just feels very wrong.

They had a great game that they let get away from them, kept adding things without fixing other things first. Some of the blame has to be with the community, which I am part of, but ultimately its KSH that have been crafty.

Block limits that are pretty low now, infinity turned into, well where space is concerned, fairly small area. Lots of features became 'experimental, when they are clearly needed in the game and were in the game, but now they have an excuse to say, 'not really, we didn't mean they would work or are indeed vanilla at all'....

Its such a shame, I have 1600'ish hrs in and loved most of those hours. But after this new update and the underhand way they are doing things. I sort of lost any confidence I had in them and it was already beginning to dwindle.

Won't be going back any time soon, if at all.

 

[Manticore]

For those who want more detail, it's in the OP:

The game has been in Early Access for three years. If you don't get that you don't understand business modelling/development roadmaps in the gaming industry.

To translate it for the less-comprehending among you:

How can a game still be in early access after three years? Despite updates they have really abandoned the game. Three years down the track... it's too late for the game.

Comprehending now much?

 

[m0rl0ck]

I bought this game three years ago when it first came out and and put hundreds of hours into the game

What a masochist you must be.

 

[PhanttoM]

For those who want more detail, it's in the OP:

The game has been in Early Access for three years. If you don't get that you don't understand business modelling/development roadmaps in the gaming industry.

To translate it for the less-comprehending among you:

How can a game still be in early access after three years? Despite updates they have really abandoned the game. Three years down the track... it's too late for the game.

Comprehending now much?

It's still in early access...no kidding — we can see that on the store page.

The whole point of doing a user review, (whether negative or positive) is to provide information that is not available on the marketing/store pages. Comprehend?

 

[znôrt]

3 years in early access isn't bad in itself.

if you have objective criticism it would be welcome. if you just want to vent then that's fine too, i guess, but doesn't say much about the game.

i have the game but didn't check the last update, and never really got deep into it, mainly because of other priorities (er, distractions?) but it looked cool to me. i'll have to take another look.

 

[FrogsFriend]

For those who want more detail, it's in the OP:

The game has been in Early Access for three years. If you don't get that you don't understand business modelling/development roadmaps in the gaming industry.

To translate it for the less-comprehending among you:

How can a game still be in early access after three years? Despite updates they have really abandoned the game. Three years down the track... it's too late for the game.

Comprehending now much?

That's all very well but is the game any good? Not the development cycle, not the roadmap, not the business model..... the game. Is it actually entertaining to play?
Genuinely curious.

 

[Manticore]

The game is no longer entertaining. After three years in early access it is still poorly optimised and loading time are horrendous.

If you like games where it takes five minutes to load up after boot and then stalls I suggest you play it. That's the main reason I uninstalled it.... life's too short to wait forever for a game to load (and my rig is not low-end).

Steam Workshop updating has been broken for years in this game.

Go ahead; spend your money if you want but I really don't see the point in supporting a game that never progresses the core needs of the game...... like getting it to load while we are still young.

It stopped being fun quite some time ago.

I suppose you could play it vanilla without Workshop content (some of which was quite creative) but, every time there is some small update/iteration a lot of Workshop content becomes inoperable and the update system is totally borked.

(I'll now wait for some "person" to say that the workshop content isn't the developers' problem as they didn't make it but, actually, it is. It's their game and their responsibility to keep the game working).

 

[PhanttoM]

The game is no longer entertaining. After three years in early access it is still poorly optimised and loading time are horrendous.

If you like games where it takes five minutes to load up after boot and then stalls I suggest you play it. That's the main reason I uninstalled it.... life's too short to wait forever for a game to load (and my rig is not low-end).

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It stopped being fun quite some time ago.

I suppose you could play it vanilla without Workshop content (some of which was quite creative) but, every time there is some small update/iteration a lot of Workshop content becomes inoperable and the update system is totally borked.

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Now that is actually useful info, thanks.

I can relate to that - ie. the terrible performance, and load times. (Former Star Citizen backer)

 

[Manticore]

As usual any comment made on this site about anything whether they are seen as objective or subjective, editorial and opinion, or otherwise) attracts the usual suspects who are more interested in delivering insult.

To those who said anything reasonable in this thread: good game (but I don't mean SE).

So; if you want to buy the game now in its present condition: fool/money/soon parted.

This thread was never meant to be a review but was meant as a warning.

 

[Ian Skippy]

It seems OP is more concerned with the label 'early access' than the actual state of the game. Space Engineers is easily worth the money IMHO, tons of fun can be had for ten bucks or so, and the game is still constantly being updated. OP makes it sound like its some kind of DayZ that just lingers around in Early Access, but that is just patently false. Reviews are very positive as well, both overall and recently.

As usual any comment made on this site about anything whether they are seen as objective or subjective, editorial and opinion, or otherwise) attracts the usual suspects who are more interested in delivering insult.

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So; if you want to buy the game now in its present condition: fool/money/soon parted.

This thread was never meant to be a review but was meant as a warning.

"I dont get why people throw insults. Anyway, if you spend money on a game I dont like you are a fool. Now stop insulting me, fools."

 

[Memnoch]

I really wish Valve had set some ground rules on how long you could keep your game in Early Access. I feel some companies are abusing this, perhaps as a means of dealing with negative reviews. Force developers to only put their game on Steam when it is in sufficient state that they can start earning some money via Steam AND have a plan to fully release within a reasonable time span. But some titles just linger on, and on, and on, stuck in EA for as long as possible.

 

[Vasea Azure]

Wait, what exactly happened with SE?? It still gets pretty big updates, last time I played it it was darn good...

 

[Stewart_]

Empyrion is a great alternative. The game is progressing well. NMS is improving also, especially with Next.

I've followed Space Engineers ( S.E ) , but reviews have been too spotty. I made the choice of buying Empyrion instead of S.E, and thankful for the decision.