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Stationeers
Stationeers puts you in control of the construction and management of a space station to run by yourself or online with your friends. Complex atmospheric, electrical, manufacturing, agriculture, and gravitational systems require your thought and management at all times!
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-02 · quoted reviews as of 2026-05-12.
What reviewers agree on
75 of the 103 reviews raise this.
“Fantastic fun. Started my first game on normal difficulty on Mars. Managed to build a sealed room and an airlock before I died of thirst. Ate baked potatoes until they all died from too much light exposure. Added a…”
“Game is very indepth and addicting. But be careful it can be a time sink. I regularily find myself losing 3 hours or more to this game.”
31 of the 103 reviews raise this.
“Fantastic fun. Started my first game on normal difficulty on Mars. Managed to build a sealed room and an airlock before I died of thirst. Ate baked potatoes until they all died from too much light exposure. Added a…”
“This is the kind of Big Brained Content that the gaming scene needs more of. The learning curve is.. curvy, but there is plenty of information in the Stationpedia, online Wikis, and from Youtubers. As well the modding…”
“Stationeers describes itself as a hardcore game. It is, without a doubt. Please believe the devs when they say that the game is hardcore. I'm the definition of a layman when compared to what this game asks of you to…”
21 of the 103 reviews raise this.
“This is the kind of Big Brained Content that the gaming scene needs more of. The learning curve is.. curvy, but there is plenty of information in the Stationpedia, online Wikis, and from Youtubers. As well the modding…”
“Holy jesus this game is....something, in a VERY good way. i tried to play this game off and on, i even went and got an "off brand" version of the game to really try it out to see if i liked it. once the game started…”
“I actually got this game back in like 2019 or something? Started a world, it was very very confusing with not any tutorial, just dropped to the moon with only the F2 instructions when I had no idea how to even move…”
9 of the 103 reviews raise this.
“Game is very indepth and addicting. But be careful it can be a time sink. I regularily find myself losing 3 hours or more to this game.”
“Holy jesus this game is....something, in a VERY good way. i tried to play this game off and on, i even went and got an "off brand" version of the game to really try it out to see if i liked it. once the game started…”
“Space Engineers's Big Brother - This is by far one of the best space survival games I have ever played. It forces you to fight and claw your way to a sustainable base of living. You must be creative and learn new…”
3 of the 103 reviews raise this.
“This is an awsome game. Very in-depth mechanics and interactions, and lots of fun to be had in singleplayer and multiplayer both. Now, of course, its not for everyone, and it has a pretty steep learning curve, but after…”
“Its a fun game, very technical and tons of content to keep you busy doing exactly what you like, whether that's the in-game IC script coding to automate everything in your base, building farms, managing power, sending…”
“At this point I think I've played it enough to know I love it. True problem solving, rewarding gameplay with lots of "aha" moments and lots of potential for comedy in multiplayer. Currently I'm trying to use guides as…”
23 of the 103 reviews raise this · 15 of them still recommend the game.
“Seriously lacking all the QoL features. If you've played something like Oxygen Not Included, you know you can have incredibly complex systems without the UX being so obtuse. If they ever get around to making that aspect…”
“Can't recommend because of the clunky UI, which apparently isn't clunky by accident. Most new players will spend way more time fighting it than accomplishing their goals in the game. This may look like a base building…”
“Too dumb UI. No really, the only game difficulty is an absence of QoL. You should add QTE to belt/hands management to make it even more morronish.”
12 of the 103 reviews raise this · 2 of them still recommend the game.
“Seriously lacking all the QoL features. If you've played something like Oxygen Not Included, you know you can have incredibly complex systems without the UX being so obtuse. If they ever get around to making that aspect…”
“Can't recommend because of the clunky UI, which apparently isn't clunky by accident. Most new players will spend way more time fighting it than accomplishing their goals in the game. This may look like a base building…”
“Too dumb UI. No really, the only game difficulty is an absence of QoL. You should add QTE to belt/hands management to make it even more morronish.”
8 of the 103 reviews raise this · 5 of them still recommend the game.
“Great game, far more optimized than their other game Icarus, and without the predatory DLC practices (so far). My biggest critisisms are that some of the games systems are poorly explained, and the UI really needs more…”
“This is a fun game, but the learning curve is STEEP! it will take several hours just to begin to understand the basics of the game and the tutorial is wholly inadequate to teach you how to play and you are better…”
“Developers really need to integrate a way to learn the game from inside the game - the learning curve is STEEP, but the game is surprisingly simple - only thanks to youtubers have I found that out. Very buggy - but I'm…”
7 of the 103 reviews raise this · 3 of them still recommend the game.
“Can't recommend because of the clunky UI, which apparently isn't clunky by accident. Most new players will spend way more time fighting it than accomplishing their goals in the game. This may look like a base building…”
“Strong recommend with strong caveats and some cautions. Caveats first: - there are a lot of small frictions, many intentional, and this will probably make-or-break the game for you. e.g. you have only two hands, so…”
6 of the 103 reviews raise this · 3 of them still recommend the game.
“I actually got this game back in like 2019 or something? Started a world, it was very very confusing with not any tutorial, just dropped to the moon with only the F2 instructions when I had no idea how to even move…”
“This is a really good survival game if you like crafting and base building. That said it has a very steep learning curve and many players abandon it because it IS hard to get started. I highly recommend that if you do…”
Counted across 103 English reviews, sampled to match this game's 87.8% positive rating · as of 2026-05-12
“Stationeers is not casual, and it does not attempt to be accessible in the way many survival games are. It is demanding, technical, and often unforgiving. That is precisely why it works. What immediately stands out is the interaction between systems. Nothing in Stationeers…”
— a player, Steam review · 323 hrs played“This game is one of the very few masterpieces available. This game is up there with civ 5, factorio, RDR2, portal 2, divinity original sin, rim world, ect. Titles like those live forever through the lasting impressions they impose. This game is the same. This game can and will…”
— a player, Steam review · 146 hrs played“VERY steep learning curve. Not the friendliest UI. But heres a story for when it really started to sing to me. 25 hrs in on the Moon. Power stable. Making fancier alloys. Just got my first potato crop. I'm a lunar Mark Whatney. BUT THEN. Just got my AC setup. Seems like its…”
— a player, Steam review · 73 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live data self-collected from the Steam API · history through 2026-06 via SteamCharts.
Achievement stats
Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-09-05.
Price tracking
US-region pricing (USD), sampled twice daily by our own tracker since 2026-07-11. Steam prices vary by region — always confirm your local price on Steam.
Regional prices at last sample, in local currency — Steam sets each region's price independently.
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Latest official news
Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.
Hotfix v0.2.6428.27798
Fixes saves failing to load in some cases, and stops deconstruction destroying kits and slot contents instead of returning them. A failed refund no longer leaves the structure stuck in the world. Also
The Power Line Update
This update focuses on power infrastructure management. A new Cable Gun for laying long runs of cables, accompanied by an Electrical Belt that feeds it cables, and Power Pylons for spanning between ba
The Sanitation Update
This update focuses on Sanitation and QoL features that came about during our recent Vulcan playthrough. Stationeers now have a sanitation need to manage, some new medical injectors have been added, a
Hotfix v0.2.6227.27061
This hotfix fixes a save-load failure caused by orphaned items, adds missing logic types for new gas and liquid variants, and corrects a combustion error where complex fuel and oxidizer mixtures would
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-12.
| Genres | Action, Indie, Simulation, Early Access |
| Player tags | Early Access · Space · Base-Building · Science · Automation · Survival · Colony Sim · Building · Sci-fi · Physics · Open World Survival Craft · Sandbox (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Multi-player · Co-op · Online Co-op · LAN Co-op · Steam Achievements · Steam Workshop · Partial Controller Support |
| Languages | English * , German * , Russian * , French, Spanish - Spain, Polish, Portuguese - Portugal, Korean, Simplified Chinese * , Traditional Chinese, Italian, Czech, Japanese, Portuguese - Brazil, Danish, Finnish * |
| Achievements | 50 |
| Official site | https://www.stationeers.com/ |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS *: Windows 7+ 64-bit Processor: Intel Core i5 2500K or AMD equivalent Memory: 4 GB RAM Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 2 GB or AMD equivalent DirectX: Version 11 Storage: 5 GB available space