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How many people still play Space Engineers?

14 players are on the 10 Space Engineers servers JoinGG is reaching right now, of 12 listed.

Across the 145 hours covered well enough to compare, that count has run between 4 and 51.

Every figure on this page was measured by JoinGG. We ask all 12 Space Engineers servers listed here every hour, over Valve's A2S status query (the same request the in-game server browser makes), and write down what each one answers. Nothing is scraped from another site, modelled, or extrapolated to servers we do not list — which is also the limit of it: these are the Space Engineers servers on JoinGG, so read the counts as a large sample of public community servers rather than as a census of the game.

Last sweep . This page rebuilds every five minutes.

14
Players connected

reported by the servers themselves

10
Servers answering

2 listed but silent

12
Servers listed

every one queried directly

10.2%
Slots used

of 137 slots those servers reported

These figures rest on 1,746 status checks across 146 measured hours, of which 145 cover enough of the Space Engineers list to compare with the others. Readings are kept for 7 days, so this page gets deeper as they accumulate rather than longer. By players on listed servers, Space Engineers is the 23rd busiest of the 32 games JoinGG measures.

This is a small sample — 12 servers on Space Engineers. The counts below are still measurements rather than estimates, but a population read off 12 servers moves when one operator reboots, so treat it as what these servers are doing rather than as what the game is doing. The whole network is the wider view.

Players on Space Engineers servers, hour by hour

1,746 status checks · 146 hours measured

Sun 05:00 UTC — only 6 of 12 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableSun 06:00 UTC — 24 players on 12 serversSun 07:00 UTC — 24 players on 12 serversSun 08:00 UTC — 15 players on 12 serversSun 09:00 UTC — 23 players on 12 serversSun 11:00 UTC — 35 players on 12 serversSun 12:00 UTC — 33 players on 12 serversSun 13:00 UTC — 32 players on 12 serversSun 14:00 UTC — 34 players on 12 serversSun 15:00 UTC — 44 players on 12 serversSun 16:00 UTC — 47 players on 12 serversSun 18:00 UTC — 49 players on 12 serversSun 19:00 UTC — 46 players on 12 serversSun 20:00 UTC — 36 players on 12 serversSun 21:00 UTC — 25 players on 12 serversSun 22:00 UTC — 29 players on 12 serversSun 23:00 UTC — 22 players on 12 serversMon 00:00 UTC — 23 players on 12 serversMon 01:00 UTC — 25 players on 12 serversMon 03:00 UTC — 23 players on 12 serversMon 04:00 UTC — 23 players on 12 serversMon 05:00 UTC — 23 players on 12 serversMon 06:00 UTC — 21 players on 12 serversMon 07:00 UTC — 21 players on 12 serversMon 08:00 UTC — 14 players on 12 serversMon 09:00 UTC — 18 players on 12 serversMon 10:00 UTC — 22 players on 12 serversMon 12:00 UTC — 23 players on 12 serversMon 13:00 UTC — 21 players on 12 serversMon 14:00 UTC — 20 players on 12 serversMon 15:00 UTC — 21 players on 12 serversMon 16:00 UTC — 25 players on 12 serversMon 17:00 UTC — 51 players on 12 serversMon 18:00 UTC — 43 players on 12 serversMon 20:00 UTC — 33 players on 12 serversMon 21:00 UTC — 22 players on 12 serversMon 22:00 UTC — 19 players on 12 serversMon 23:00 UTC — 20 players on 12 serversTue 00:00 UTC — 18 players on 12 serversTue 01:00 UTC — 16 players on 12 serversTue 02:00 UTC — 19 players on 12 serversTue 04:00 UTC — 16 players on 12 serversTue 05:00 UTC — 17 players on 12 serversTue 06:00 UTC — 17 players on 12 serversTue 07:00 UTC — 15 players on 12 serversTue 08:00 UTC — 18 players on 12 serversTue 10:00 UTC — 13 players on 12 serversTue 11:00 UTC — 11 players on 12 serversTue 12:00 UTC — 10 players on 12 serversTue 13:00 UTC — 10 players on 12 serversTue 14:00 UTC — 21 players on 12 serversTue 15:00 UTC — 30 players on 12 serversTue 17:00 UTC — 41 players on 12 serversTue 18:00 UTC — 43 players on 12 serversTue 19:00 UTC — 38 players on 12 serversTue 20:00 UTC — 36 players on 12 serversTue 21:00 UTC — 25 players on 12 serversTue 22:00 UTC — 22 players on 12 serversTue 23:00 UTC — 10 players on 12 serversWed 01:00 UTC — 11 players on 12 serversWed 02:00 UTC — 16 players on 12 serversWed 03:00 UTC — 24 players on 12 serversWed 04:00 UTC — 4 players on 12 serversWed 05:00 UTC — 6 players on 12 serversWed 06:00 UTC — 12 players on 12 serversWed 07:00 UTC — 21 players on 12 serversWed 09:00 UTC — 13 players on 12 serversWed 10:00 UTC — 16 players on 12 serversWed 11:00 UTC — 12 players on 12 serversWed 12:00 UTC — 15 players on 12 serversWed 13:00 UTC — 17 players on 12 serversWed 14:00 UTC — 23 players on 12 serversWed 15:00 UTC — 25 players on 12 serversWed 17:00 UTC — 28 players on 12 serversWed 18:00 UTC — 30 players on 12 serversWed 19:00 UTC — 27 players on 12 serversWed 20:00 UTC — 22 players on 12 serversWed 21:00 UTC — 14 players on 12 serversWed 22:00 UTC — 11 players on 12 serversThu 00:00 UTC — 13 players on 12 serversThu 01:00 UTC — 13 players on 12 serversThu 02:00 UTC — 12 players on 12 serversThu 03:00 UTC — 12 players on 12 serversThu 04:00 UTC — 4 players on 12 serversThu 05:00 UTC — 10 players on 12 serversThu 06:00 UTC — 15 players on 12 serversThu 08:00 UTC — 20 players on 12 serversThu 09:00 UTC — 19 players on 12 serversThu 10:00 UTC — 18 players on 12 serversThu 11:00 UTC — 20 players on 12 serversThu 12:00 UTC — 13 players on 12 serversThu 13:00 UTC — 17 players on 12 serversThu 15:00 UTC — 18 players on 12 serversThu 16:00 UTC — 16 players on 12 serversThu 17:00 UTC — 18 players on 12 serversThu 18:00 UTC — 26 players on 12 serversThu 19:00 UTC — 24 players on 12 serversThu 20:00 UTC — 29 players on 12 serversThu 22:00 UTC — 18 players on 12 serversThu 23:00 UTC — 14 players on 12 serversFri 00:00 UTC — 15 players on 12 serversFri 01:00 UTC — 18 players on 12 serversFri 02:00 UTC — 16 players on 12 serversFri 03:00 UTC — 11 players on 12 serversFri 05:00 UTC — 12 players on 12 serversFri 06:00 UTC — 17 players on 12 serversFri 07:00 UTC — 13 players on 12 serversFri 08:00 UTC — 29 players on 12 serversFri 09:00 UTC — 20 players on 12 serversFri 10:00 UTC — 25 players on 12 serversFri 12:00 UTC — 17 players on 12 serversFri 13:00 UTC — 17 players on 12 serversFri 14:00 UTC — 24 players on 12 serversFri 15:00 UTC — 23 players on 12 serversFri 16:00 UTC — 25 players on 12 serversFri 17:00 UTC — 25 players on 12 serversFri 18:00 UTC — 44 players on 12 serversFri 19:00 UTC — 22 players on 12 serversFri 20:00 UTC — 21 players on 12 serversFri 22:00 UTC — 18 players on 12 serversFri 23:00 UTC — 21 players on 12 serversSat 00:00 UTC — 18 players on 12 serversSat 01:00 UTC — 22 players on 12 serversSat 02:00 UTC — 22 players on 12 serversSat 03:00 UTC — 13 players on 12 serversSat 05:00 UTC — 12 players on 12 serversSat 06:00 UTC — 20 players on 12 serversSat 07:00 UTC — 18 players on 12 serversSat 08:00 UTC — 21 players on 12 serversSat 09:00 UTC — 18 players on 12 serversSat 11:00 UTC — 20 players on 12 serversSat 12:00 UTC — 4 players on 12 serversSat 13:00 UTC — 23 players on 12 serversSat 14:00 UTC — 25 players on 12 serversSat 15:00 UTC — 36 players on 12 serversSat 17:00 UTC — 46 players on 12 serversSat 18:00 UTC — 39 players on 12 serversSat 19:00 UTC — 37 players on 12 serversSat 20:00 UTC — 33 players on 12 serversSat 21:00 UTC — 27 players on 12 serversSat 23:00 UTC — 18 players on 12 serversSun 00:00 UTC — 19 players on 12 serversSun 01:00 UTC — 19 players on 12 serversSun 02:00 UTC — 20 players on 12 serversSun 03:00 UTC — 21 players on 12 serversSun 05:00 UTC — 14 players on 12 servers
Sun 05:00 UTCSun 05:00 UTC
Busiest hour measured
51 at Mon 17:00 UTC
Quietest hour measured
4 at Wed 04:00 UTC
Latest sweep
14 players
Hours plotted
145 of 146

1 hour is marked but not plotted. The poller reached under 90% of the list in that hour, so the totals are low because fewer servers were asked — not because fewer people were playing. Drawing them on the same line would invent a drop.

The other player count

14
Players here

on the 10 servers JoinGG reached

2,282
In game (Valve)

everyone running it anywhere, per Steam

These two count different things

Players here is ours: people connected to the Space Engineers servers JoinGG lists, counted by asking each server. In game (Valve) is Steam's live count of everyone running Space Engineers anywhere — official matchmaking, single-player, community servers and idle menus included. Neither is a subset of the other that we can compute: our list is not every community server in existence, and Valve's total is not limited to multiplayer. So both are printed and neither is divided by the other.

Valve's figure comes from the Steam Web API and is cached for an hour, so it can lag ours by up to that much.

Where those players are right now

The Space Engineers listings with the most people on them at the last sweep. Every figure in the row is what that server answered — the ping is our round trip to it, not yours, so read it as a rough measure of where the box is rather than of what you will get.

The Space Engineers servers listed on JoinGG with the most players on them at the last status query, with the player count, map and round trip each one reported.
ServerMapPlayersPingWhere
Keen US#3 (PvE)Standard Survival4 / 16241 msUnited States 🇺🇸
se-prometheus.ruPrometheus V24 / 32122 msRussia 🇷🇺
se-prometheus.ruPrometheus V24 / 32113 msRussia 🇷🇺
LETS DO THIS AGAINMy World2 / 8204 ms—
All 12 Space Engineers servers

Space Engineers player counts — the questions

Is Space Engineers still alive in 2026?
Yes, and this is the measurement rather than an opinion. 14 players are on the 10 Space Engineers servers JoinGG is reaching right now, of 12 listed. Across the 145 hours covered well enough to compare, that count has run between 4 and 51. Every one of those numbers came from asking the servers themselves.
When is Space Engineers busiest?
Around 18:00 UTC. Averaged over 7 days of readings, that hour carries about 39 players across the Space Engineers servers listed here.
How many Space Engineers servers are there?
12 Space Engineers servers are listed on JoinGG, and 10 of them answered the last status query. The other 2 stayed silent, which is recorded as silent rather than as empty — a server that does not answer and a server with nobody on it are different facts and we only measured one of them.
Why is this different from Steam's Space Engineers player count?
They measure different populations. Steam counts everybody running Space Engineers anywhere right now — official matchmaking, single-player, community servers and idle menus — and reports 2,282. We count people connected to the 10 Space Engineers servers we reached, which is 14. Neither figure is a subset of the other that we can compute, so both are printed and neither is divided by the other.
How is this counted?
Every figure on this page was measured by JoinGG. We ask all 12 Space Engineers servers listed here every hour, over Valve's A2S status query (the same request the in-game server browser makes), and write down what each one answers. Nothing is scraped from another site, modelled, or extrapolated to servers we do not list — which is also the limit of it: these are the Space Engineers servers on JoinGG, so read the counts as a large sample of public community servers rather than as a census of the game.

Readings are kept for 7 days and pruned by the poller, so this page describes the last week rather than all time — it gets deeper as readings accumulate rather than longer. Hours are measured in UTC and shown in your own clock; hover any of them to read the UTC figure behind it. The answers above stay in UTC, because each is also published as structured data for search engines, where a reader’s zone means nothing.

How many people still play the others

Every game JoinGG measures with enough servers behind it to publish, busiest first. The number on each is the players we can see on its listed servers right now.

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