New website has been launched in a test mode!


Today we presenting this more modern website to you: http://spaceengine.org/

Please register on the forum and start posting! Any suggestions about this website are highly appreciated in this thread. The Universe section should be filled with screenshots, so you are welcome to post screenshots in this thread. If you are mod-maker, feel free to create a thread about your mods in the Mods and Addons forum ... Read more »

The SpaceEngine website was launched 5 years ago, on 29 March 2011. In the beginning, it was only Russian part of the site, but the English one was added soon after.

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Thank you very much to everyone who donated. Many of the features in this version would not have been possible without your generous support! ... Read more »

Great news! Crowdfunding for SpaceEngine has reached its first milestone - $15,000. As mentioned on the funding page, this means that I am now able to move away from my day job and start working on SE full time. My hope is that SpaceEngine 1.0 will see light within a year, though the exact time is impossible to know for sure. The next funding milestone is $80,000, which will fund the development of the single-player space exploration game.

As you may notice, I was forced to increase the amounts needed for different goals. The original estimates were too optimistic. Based on further analysis and experience, I have come up with the current goal list. It is much m ... Read more »

Great news everyone...



SpaceEngine has been Greenlit! A huge thanks to everyone who voted to make this happen. SpaceEngine can now move onto Steam in the future.

2014 promises to be an exciting year for SE, so keep watching the website for news and updates throughout the year. You can also follow along on SE's social media pages (links are on the right side of the website). And if you want to help with SpaceEngine's continued development, please consider making a donation. You can see our goals by visiting the funding page. We appreciate your support!

Now SpaceEngine is on Steam Greenlight!



Discuss on the forum: link.

3D water: animated water specular reflections, underwater fog

Improved procedural moon system generator

Debris rings around planets

New landforms: pseudo rivers, shield volcanoes

Music player with smooth mixing, context switching of soundtracks, repeat options and other capabilities

25 original soundtracks made by many authors

Smart blending of terrain detail textures

Detail noise textures on the planetary surface

New types of worlds with life, improved lifeform classifications

Many improvements with space ships

Built-in avi video recorder

Fast multi-threaded Star Browser: it uses all CPU cores to generate systems an ... Read more »

Since July 06, and to July 10 the uCoz data center, where English SpaceEngine site is hosted, was subject to DDoS attack. It has a troubles with access from some network segments (probably, from anywhere except Russia). Now attack is completed, and site works normally. We apologize for the inconvenience.