ActionIndieSimulationStrategy≤16 playersmoddableWindows via Winesingle-threadSpace Engineers is a sandbox engineering game where you design and build ships, stations, and planetary bases in a fully destructible environment. Explore planets and space, mine resources, survive hazards, and engage in combat alone or with friends in Creative or Survival modes.
By Keen Software House · Released Feb 28, 2019
Host it here
≈ $17/mo
playing ~12 h/week on the metered plan, billed only while the server is actually up. Always-on is $59.98–$89.97/mo · about $14.99 each split between 4 players, 2–3 cores dedicated, never shared.
Sim-speed drops with total grid/PCU complexity; fast single core keeps sim-speed up.
Get the game
You buy Space Engineers once from Steam. It is $19.99 there, a one-off purchase. NecroHost rents you the server it runs on, which is the monthly figure above.