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eXoSpace Combat Engineer
Snap, rotate and launch your own warship in minutes, then pilot it into bullet-hell boss fights to hunt the galaxy's supervillains. Master intuitive engineering, evolve from drone to dreadnought, and use the fully gridless designer to build anything you can imagine!
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-26.
“Like Reassembly, but bigger. Like Avorion, but less needlessly complicated. Runs on a literal potato, and really scratches the "I want to make space ships to blow up other space ships with, not just fill in turret slots on a grid, but I don't want to remember anything from high…”
— a player, Steam review · 39 hrs played“Remember Reassembly? Wanted a game that had the same building and fighting system? Wanted to have more things to do? Wanted more weapons and parts like hinges and hangar bays? Wanted cool bossfights that didnt tank the game? This game has all that, but you will be missing the…”
— a player, Steam review · 63 hrs played“If you like Cosmoteer, you'll enjoy this game too! I wouldn't say either game competes with each other, just more variety if you like this genre. What I do enjoy a lot with eXoSpace is the direct control you have over your ship, while Cosmoteer is more like you're commanding…”
— a player, Steam review · 14 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. History through 2026-08 via SteamCharts; self-collected from the Steam API since Aug 2026.
Achievement stats
Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-09-26.
Latest official news
Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.
Release Week
Hi hunters, release week is ending soon, and I want to take a moment to tell you what I am working on for the coming time. But first, I'm really happy and grateful with how the release went! The game
Release 93 - Small patch
Changes: - Added a save game backup systems. On load the save game directory is zipped and backed up. Up to 5 backups are stored. You can open the backup folder via a button in the save slot screen. T
Release 92 - Small patch
Another day, another small patch. Please note: the mercenaries panel was moved to a button in the top-right , since I kept getting reports of the panel being impossible to open. Also, hangars got chea
Release 90 - Small patch
This patch fixes a bunch of bugs that were reported after launch. For now I'm focusing on stability and bugfixing. Changes: - The log file(s) of the previous run are now preserved, to help in debuggin
Release 89 - Hotfix
A small hotfix for some bug reports: - The logfiles for the previous run are now preserved. - Bugfix: over-eager stall detection caused a restart when rendering a frame took too long. - Bugfix: crash
Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-09-26.
| Genres | Action, Adventure, Indie, Simulation, Strategy |
| Player tags | Spaceships · Building · Shooter · Sci-fi · Space · Space Sim · Exploration · Singleplayer · Simulation · 2D · Bullet Hell · Top-Down (Steam store community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Steam Achievements · Steam Workshop · Adjustable Text Size · Camera Comfort · Custom Volume Controls · Adjustable Difficulty · Save Anytime |
| Languages | English, Dutch |
| Achievements | 31 |
| Official site | https://exospace-combat-engineer.com/ |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS: Microsoft Windows 10, 11, or newer Processor: 2 GHz Dual Core Memory: 1 GB RAM Graphics: Vulkan, DirectX 12 or OpenGL ES Storage: 1 GB available space