Space Engineers 2 Dev Diary: December 18, 2025

Please join us Monday, December 22 for the release of Obliviara Sector to the Almagest System!

🚀 Monday, December 22, 6 PM UTC
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**Story Spoilers!**

Our story has already begun – you have met the two brothers, Miro and Ivan. On their journey through the Almagest system they will cross paths with many different characters. Some of them will be friendly, others… not so much.

This is one of the friendly ones I personally am looking forward to meeting – Aya, a member of the Astronaut Without Borders (AWB) faction.



[h3]VS3 – Water[/h3]
The vertical slice 3 “Water” is not only about volumetric, planetary scale water. The update will also need a lot of blocks and supporting features to make real water gameplay possible.

Without them, the water would be just an interesting physics gimmick. We have many gameplay designs that involve water – and our Art team is already on the task. Here are some of the recent concepts I had the pleasure to review.


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What more can I show you? Maybe a small sneak peek at a unique backpack for a future story character:


And here is a behind the scenes video from the basic rigging of another story character.

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Question to you: What water-adjacent features would you like to see?

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