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Stationeers
Build a shared space station by wiring equipment, managing gases and learning why your life support keeps failing.
Online co-op.
- Online
Where to buy
Playing together
- Online co-opYesPlayer count not confirmed
- Local co-opNot confirmed
- Not confirmedFriends on different platforms, such as PC and PlayStation, can play together.
- Not confirmedA friend can join or leave while you are already playing, without starting over.
- Not confirmedFriends play free with a Friend's Pass or similar.
- Steam DeckPlayableValve's own rating
About the game
You start on a hostile world with supplies and a suit that will not keep you alive forever. A station needs power, breathable air, food and ways to handle heat. You place the frames, cables and pipes yourself, then connect machines into systems that can run without constant attention. Gas mixtures, pressure and temperature matter, so a small design error can spread through the base.
Friends can join the same station online and take on separate projects. One person might work on power while another prepares a greenhouse or tests an airlock. There are no fixed roles to stop you changing jobs. Learning the equipment and checking each other's work take patience. Once basic survival is settled, you can choose new engineering projects and keep rebuilding the place over many sessions.
How it feels
Kind of game
Few set goals. You build things, test them and mess around with what you made.
- Now and then
- Calm and coziness
- Working in sync
- Time to hang out
- Physical comedy
- Exploring
- Sessions
- Ongoing world
- About
- Science fiction, Alien planets, Mining
Rated on our own feel scale. 7 sources back these ratings.
Screenshots
From the Steam store page. Open one to see it full size.
If you liked Stationeers
You will probably enjoy these too. Each one says why.
Space Engineers
Why it scores 85%
What they share
- Kind of game
- Creative sandbox
- About
- Science fiction and Mining
- Notable in both
- Laughter and chaos, Puzzles and figuring out, Tension and danger, Planning ahead, Unlocks and progress
- Core to both
- Getting better, Building and creating
- Sessions
- Ongoing world
- Co-op
- Online co-op
- 16 online
- Crossplay
Both are sandboxes where you make your own fun. Both are about science fiction and mining and digging. Both get loud and silly when plans go wrong.
No big difference from Stationeers.
Scrap Mechanic
Why it scores 80%
What they share
- Kind of game
- Creative sandbox
- About
- Science fiction and Mining
- Notable in both
- Laughter and chaos, Puzzles and figuring out, Tension and danger, Planning ahead, Getting better, Unlocks and progress
- Core to both
- Building and creating
- Sessions
- Ongoing world
- Co-op
- Online co-op
How Scrap Mechanic differs
- More story than Stationeers
- More fighting than Stationeers
- Online
Both are sandboxes where you make your own fun. Both let you build things together. Both are about science fiction and mining and digging.
But more story than Stationeers.
Satisfactory
Why it scores 76%
What they share
- Kind of game
- Creative sandbox
- About
- Science fiction and Alien planets
- Core to both
- Planning ahead, Building and creating
- Sessions
- Ongoing world
- Notable in both
- Puzzles and figuring out, Getting better, Unlocks and progress
- Co-op
- Online co-op
How Satisfactory differs
- Calmer and less chaotic than Stationeers
- Online
- Crossplay
Both are sandboxes where you make your own fun. Both are about science fiction and strange alien worlds. Both reward planning before you act.
But calmer and less chaotic than Stationeers.
All co-op facts
Last checked 24 October 2026. The small numbers link to the page that states each fact.
Co-op
- Most players online
- Not confirmed
- Fewest players online
- Not confirmed
- Local co-op
- Not confirmed
- Most players on one screen
- Not confirmed
- Split or shared screen
- Not confirmed
- Separate-device co-op
- Not confirmed
- Most players on separate devices
- Not confirmed
- Free base co-op
- No
The checked computer full-base edition has a paid base-game access model. Demos, trials, guest passes, platform sharing and temporary grants do not establish ongoing free base co-op.
- 1
- Confirmed free setups
- Does not apply
- Crossplay
- Not confirmed
- Crossplay between
- Not confirmed
- Friends can join mid-game
- Not confirmed
- Only one of you needs to buy it
- Not confirmed
- Voice chat by distance
- Not confirmed
Sources
9 pages
store.steampowered.comStore page, read 24 October 2026
Backs Online co-op, Platforms, Release status, Release date, Genres, About, Building and creating, Puzzles and figuring out, Getting better, Free base co-op.
- Online co-op: The publisher describes constructing and running a station online with friends.
- Platforms: The current client requirements list Windows. A Linux dedicated server is not a Linux game client.
- Release status: The product remains in Early Access.
- Release date: The page gives December 12, 2017 as the Early Access release.
- Genres: The maker lists simulation and describes science-based survival problems.
- About: Space stations, hostile planetary conditions and mining are part of the described design.
- Building and creating: Station construction and its connected equipment are the main activities.
- Puzzles and figuring out: Atmospheric, electrical and manufacturing systems present linked science-based problems.
- Getting better: The maker explicitly says successful system optimization needs knowledge and practice.
- Free base co-op: The checked computer full-base edition has a paid base-game access model. Demos, trials, guest passes, platform sharing and temporary grants do not establish ongoing free base co-op.
store.steampowered.comStore data, read 24 October 2026
Backs Steam app ID.
- Steam app ID: Steam identifies Stationeers as app 544550.
store.steampowered.comStore data, read 24 October 2026
Backs Steam Deck.
- Steam Deck: Valve rates the game Playable on Steam Deck.
steamcommunity.comOfficial support page, read 24 October 2026
Backs Planning ahead.
- Planning ahead: The pinned developer FAQ describes a problem-solving game about interacting systems. Real equations are simplified where gameplay needs it.
steamcommunity.comOfficial news, read 24 October 2026
Backs Exploring.
- Exploring: The September 15, 2025 update adds authored planetary terrain, landmarks and ore regions to travel through.
pcgamer.comPress, read 24 October 2026
Backs Tension and danger.
- Tension and danger: PC Gamer, March 6, 2018, describes oxygen, fuel and pressure emergencies during a played survival attempt. Current player accounts corroborate the underlying hazards.
steamcommunity.comStore page, read 24 October 2026
Backs Laughter and chaos, Physical comedy.
- Laughter and chaos: A bounded sample of four helpful player reviews describes memorable shared engineering accidents and cascading base destruction.
- Physical comedy: One of those reviews describes decompression throwing the player across the landscape. Physical comedy is occasional rather than the main activity.
steamcommunity.comStore page, read 24 October 2026
Backs Kind of game, Sessions, Calm and coziness, Working in sync, Time to hang out, Unlocks and progress, Planning ahead.
- Kind of game: The selected October 11, 2026 player account describes choosing engineering projects after survival is solved.
- Sessions: The account follows the same shared base through many sessions.
- Calm and coziness: The account distinguishes the difficult opening from a functioning station with room for chosen projects.
- Working in sync: The account describes friends working on different systems in the shared base.
- Time to hang out: The account is dominated by planning and troubleshooting. Limited unrelated chat is an inference, not a reported voice feature.
- Unlocks and progress: Players progress from basic shelter to improved manufacturing and automated infrastructure that persists.
- Planning ahead: The account describes laying out service corridors and designing automation before constructing it.
streamharmony.comPress, read 24 October 2026
Backs Puzzles and figuring out, Getting better, Planning ahead.
- Puzzles and figuring out: Stream Harmony, July 8, 2021, describes the reviewer routing furnace gases to plants, then solving cooling and pressure problems. This is an older Early Access assessment of the engineering loop.
- Getting better: Stream Harmony, July 8, 2021, describes learning connected systems through personal failed builds. It supports sustained learning, without establishing current controls or stability.
- Planning ahead: Stream Harmony, July 8, 2021, describes setting priorities for power, water and food, then planning connected equipment and automation. Current maker and player evidence remains the basis for present scope.