space engineers or kerbal space program?

[TipsyWarthog678]

Plz only respond if you've played both games but please tell me whether space engineers or kerbal space prgram is better plz no biast thoughts, also which has more content?

[JBV3737]

Kerbal is singleplayer only, space engineers is both... that should answer your question.

[TipsyWarthog678]

so ur sayin ksp and se are the same exact game except se also has multiplayer?, idoubt it

[Whitecrow]

They are very different games. KSP has a demo so why not give it a try. Both games have a lot of player added content, and both are definately worth the money. I'm currently playing and enjoying both. There are a huge amount of gameplay vids for each game on youtube, why not go watch a few and form your own opinion :)

[TipsyWarthog678]

k thx for info

[Shaw]

i like both games

[DarkHoodness]

That's sort of like asking if wine or beer is better. KSP and SE are very fun, but quite different from each other. Watch YouTube vids of both games to see which one you may find the most fun for you.

Play KSP if you prefer having objectives and a more realistic space simulation - You'll be taught how orbits and gravity works. You build space ships from a big selection of parts which you can stick together in almost any way that you want. It's currently more complete than SE and just entered beta.

Play Space Engineers if you like having more of a sandbox game - Do you like playing with Lego? It's a bit like Minecraft in space, everything is constructed with blocks (which can be optionally earned in survival mode by finding and mining resources), allowing for creative building, but there aren't many objectives yet - The game has a lot of potential for future expansion, though.

[Shaw]

If you get KSP then you will find yourself adding words like "Hullo" to your vocabulary

[Rhedd]

I have 735 hours on Space Engineers and way more than the Steam-recorded 989 hours on Kerbal Space Program. I'm sorry if this sounds like a jerk answer, but the games are NOTHING alike. Yes, they both have space and both let you build things. That's it. The methods, the physics, the overall reasons and goals, and especially the "feel" of the games could not be less similar.

If you like scifi shows try SE. If you grew up during the early space program (like I did) and love that sort of thing, hurry up and buy KSP. If you like both, try both, but this is not a case where you should choose between the two. It's not even apples vs oranges. It's more like apples vs... hot tubs.

[orb]

SE is a sandbox building game. I don't know if you played Minecraft or a similar game, but it feels much this way (except there are no mobs at this time, and blocks can deform instead of being simply destroyed). There is no set goal. You can build a base near your original spawn point and optionally defend it from meteoroid storms or from other players, you can build a ship or a few ships, optionally mine some uranium to fuel it and go exploring the space, or you can for example recreate different ships from movies and show them to other people. You control a single character - it's 1st person experience, even if you use 3rd person view perspective - you play the game as yourself.

In KSP your ultimate goal is to send the little green people into space from their home planet with use of orbital mechanics by building rockets or spaceplanes, and explore other celestial bodies in their star system. You can simulate a space program and do specific missions you receive from the mission control, or simply launch your rockets wherever you wish, build space stations, bases from spacecrafts launched from the home planet. You can control multiple characters and spacecrafts by switching between them - while you can control characters directly, it's rather 3rd person experience, even if you switch to 1st person view perspective - you don't feel connected to the kerbal you control.

[Rontagosh]

Very different games, but overall, I'd recommend Kerbal over SE

[SourceSlack]

If I was to pick only one game, it would be SE over Kerbal. Kerbal is very limiting to what can happen. It also is a more serious game. If I just want to mess around it takes more time to get what I want out of Kerbal. SE on the other hand, you can build anything anywhere and then start smashing it into more things.

Basically what they feel like when I'm playing them:
SE = minecraft + space
Kerbal = flight sim + space

[Emerald Kithkin]

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If I was to pick only one game, it would be SE over Kerbal. Kerbal is very limiting to what can happen. It also is a more serious game. If I just want to mess around it takes more time to get what I want out of Kerbal. SE on the other hand, you can build anything anywhere and then start smashing it into more things.

Basically what they feel like when I'm playing them:
SE = minecraft + space
Kerbal = flight sim + space

Short and concise, this guy gets it.

Space Engineers is much akin to the many block builders that flood the market and is one of if not the best among them. This is arguable on a great many points but for the sake of what it is it plays well, has a good deal of content, is updated regularly without skipping a beat and is very kind to the growing modding community. Skill and knowledge requirements are fairly low though scale depending on the task at hand. Capturing cargo ships and fighting other players tend to be the hardest tasks while everything else is trivial with a little patience.

Kerbal Space Program is difficult. It's exceedingly so and possibly not as enjoyable for the average user. Those who have a love for flight, space, and perhaps a decent knowledge of rocket science and astrophysics are more likely to enjoy it. It doesn't stop people from making silly things and trying to carve their own path, but KSP has more definite goals that rely on skills and knowledge.

I enjoy both almost equally, and play one or the other depending on how focused or serious I wish to be at the time.

[Agoraphobe]

Get both if possible they are stunning games in thier own right and I might also add starmade is similar to space engineers and well worth a look.

[TipsyWarthog678]

Thx for the info everyone appreciate it