No Other Sci-Fi Engineering Games Have This ☄️🛰️. - Starship Evo 

Flexible brick manipulation, robust customization options, reliable moving components, simple symmetry tools, size variability, user-friendly logic systems, The success of these features lies in their ability to enhance creativity and provide a seamless gameplay experience. The lack of KLANG would lessen the oh shiiii moments but having this kind of building customization is a breath of fresh air for the genre.

Those are some very impressive Star Citizen-alike ships. Frankly, the fact that the game lets you create ships even remotely as unique in design as some of the more complex Star Citizen ships is really, really impressive. Access ramps within access ramps, crazy cockpits. If this gets remotely good multiplayer net code, Space Engineers will finally have a serious fight on its hands!

ngl, the flexible connveyors and hoses had me drooling... I wished for those for so many years in Space Engineers!

One thing you overlooked is that there is a menu opened with F1, by default there are only 4 scales available but that menu allows you to go from 1/8th meter scale all the way up to 32m scale which makes small details even better to make as well as massive structures even easier to build! Love seeing more exposure of the game and happy you focused on its building system in this video!

As someone who has worked on procedural generation with 3d models, I can attest that making those flexible hoses took a lot more work than people realize. I can tell the devs working on this game really care about it and want to make a really cool game. I hope they're able to see it to 1.0

as someone thats owned avorion for a long time but only recently just played it. i can tell you without a doubt a stretch feature and having 4 different scaled sizes of blocks is immensely beneficial to creativity. those ships look incredible and almost near identical to their replica versions from star citizen. space engineers could learn alot of the dev on starship evo. least iirc i think its a solo dev. either way this game shot up on my wishlist and cant wait to see more happening with the game in terms of survival and AI combat.. something akin to empyrion factions etc

It's pretty impressive how much a single developer accomplished with this game, and it isn't even finished yet just imagined all the things that will be introduced along the way. As a space engineers player, i am pretty jealous lol

if only space engineers had could have that stretching with the blocks!

I love the amount of moving parts and components with all the wings folding with the gear and the numerous ways you can do a door/ramp, going straight on the wishlist!

Scrap mechanic might have the draggable wedges soon and its pretty interesting to see how starship evo handles it. I also love the tubes incorporated into the ships shown in the video, so sci fi :D

This game looks spectacular! The hose feature literally had my jaw on the floor. I mostly like features that make my ships look good but something I'd love that I never see is a feature that makes glass block seams dissappear when there connected to one another. Often times if you try and maje a large rounded window in these types of games it looks like it's filled with cracks so some feature to just remove that would be something I'd love too see

Love to see more Stevo vids! I really appreciate that you show quite a lot of my ships lol But I really appreciate it far more that you start to go into the building details this game can offer. I hope you'll get into the building process yourself - then you'll understand how all of this really works in detail, because it can get very complex, very fast. Would love to see an interview style video with the dev Tsuna

Wow. I am so used to space engineers and spending hours getting a single curve right. This looks downright amazing. Now I just need to get my friends to buy it as well so we can keep our server going.

I'd love to see a smart approach to destruction. Some sort of integrity system. I.E. the more connected parts are the better they stay together, the less connected the easier damage separates them.

For those coming from Space Engineers and wondering about Starship EVO, here's a summary of its comparative advantages: - Scaleable grids let you switch between small details like cockpits or greebles, to blocking out massive hull sections seamlessly; no loss of form control or detail on different build scales. - Stretchable pieces grant you greater control over form and shape, no longer limited to limited angles and corners. - Decal pieces let you make custom paintjobs or non-geometric details more easily - Clang-free mechanical components including rotors, hinges, pistons, and rails, letting you make moving parts ranging from access panels, to elevators, to transforming hull segments. - Customizable weapons for your ship and for your character, including the ability to make custom manned or automated turrets. - Very good optimization, with battles featuring multiple, large ships often having little noticeable impact on performance. - Flight model featuring a "Supercruise" that lets you fly around star systems, as well as a jump drive to travel between systems in a massive galaxy. - No parts or features locked behind a paywall. However, some may note the following comparative disadvantages: - Reduced emphasis on physics (for better or worse), plus no atmosphere, oxygen, or depressurization features. - Multiplayer is still very placeholder and unstable. - Crafting is still in development; survival, logistics, and power management aspects are currently threadbare. - Not many interesting places to visit while exploring besides space stations or procedurally generated planets. - Weapons currently only limited to two types: "blaster" style energy weapons and continuous beam lasers. No missiles or slug-throwers yet. - Logic system doesn't currently seem to support custom scripting. - Unfinished game by a solo dev. If updates change any of the above, it will be very slow. - More stylized art direction (some may prefer Space Engineers' more realistic look).

In the game Stormworks, there are many modular systems like engines, fluid manipulation, etc. Functional modular systems are my crack, I have spent many hours perfecting modular diesel setups and my reward is creations that barely consume fuel as they travel incredible distances. I LOVE those mechanics, which is why I got excited about Starbase back when it was announced. And when I saw those flexible hoses... I'll be honest, I'm high-key losing my composure. That's the kind of stuff I would love to see in other games, stretchable blocks or not. You lads have something quite brilliant on your hands, more modularity and we might have another Factorio situation on our hands.

I love the look of the extendable tubes, really cool feature that makes mechanical components so much cooler

I like the building system of this game but i also like the dynamic damage system that Space Engineers have. Can you shot a ship in half in Starship Evo?

800 hours into Space Engineers and just seen this for the first time lol. Been watching your videos for a long time and love your detailed and honest content! What makes or break it for me is when they have no sense of danger once built. I want degradation to my space land bases with a sense of immersion for all kinds of hazards.

I think what I'd really love to see is a wide range of roleplay based blocks. Medbay items such as biobeds, body scanners, surgical table. A full set of lab equipment. Engineering maintenance equipment and tools. Kitchen equipment. I know this is all quality of life stuff rather than essential, but it would help make ships look more real and lived in. Being able to retexture/recolour each face of a block independently would be of great help for detailing too. More long term, AI crew would be cool.

The thing that makes or breaks these games for me, is the interactions of the joints and rails, the movement mechanics. Few building games have have much past simple grid and subgrid movement mechanics, where as Starship EVO lets you get into super detail about how those mechanics interact with everything. Things dont float apart, blocks and mesh can slide against eachother without fear of physics going crazy, and everything works as expected. Previous versions of the game let you clip blocks on "sub grids" into the parent grids, making for some insane folding compact creations (think tiny cube that can unfold into a starship. Unfair kinda stuff in a ship game. Later versions were given a "self collision" mechanic, so things could stop on physical blocks. The lack of crazy physics and predictable mechanics makes these game great.

the transport ship at 7:14 looks to be inspired from the C2 Hercules from Star Citizen

I always love being able to create beds, showers, etc for adding the lived in immersion to the ships! Also, creating custom cockpits or other components is really great too.

Would be neat to have an electrical wiring mechanic, so if certain modules go offline either due to combat damage, running out of fuel, or a fire on the deck, could divert power depending on how your electrical is setup. Could make redundant systems or backup or fuse boxes so if you get hit by an EMP weapon its a layer of protection through building and wiring that you thought of in advance

I really love the seamless movements of different parts in this game, like how easy it seems to make those doors when in other games you have to fit a lot of mechanical parts into a small area, or outright just make a separate compartment just for the bits and bobs to make the doors or cannons work, and here it seems like you already get a lot of parts to make things and combined with the many different block scales, the possibilities are endless in terms of what kind of machine you can make

Im glad it gives you the ability to create a crusader Hercules type ship, considering that is my favorite star citizen ship

This game has almost everything I wish space engineers had. Retractable ramps, sliding doors, hover thrusters and much more variety of block formats.

You kinda missed the best part of starship evo building. The angles, noone does angles quite like him. Its amazing

What's most mindblowing is that this game is just 1 dev having fun.

The level of detail one can obtain to help bring their vision into a 3d playable world, the way a painter might with a canvas is my favorite aspect of this. It's bit like painting in a sense, building up layering and detail.

The transport ship I think is based off of the Starlifter C2 from Star Citizen, with a few design elements from the Carrack from the same game. Also can see a Hammerhead in the back

I really wish that space engineers had such detailing and flexibility with its blocks, this game looks like a lot of fun even if there isn't a good multiplayer yet

The ship-building system is the best one so far from what I saw on youtube! With how versatile each block is and the ability to use any scale block on any scale build it will allow one to build any ship you can think of just the way you imagined it! It's like building with Legos. Not to mention how detailed any replica ships you make can be imagine a Millennium Falcon recreated down to the last loose wire. And then once the multiplayer is properly implemented just imagine all those replicas fighting each other! Starship enterprise squaring off against Space battleship Yamato, Battlestar Galactica vs a Mon-cala cruiser with Vipers and X-wings dogfighting as the big ships hammer each other. Also, the roleplay potential that this game has imagine making a series about a Starfleet ship exploring the unknown using this game as a medium, or maybe making an ending to the og BSG. The way the building system works here can allow for such detailed set price locations it's crazy! All in all in my opinion the more detailed ship you can make, the more they can look as you imagined them the better the system and so far Starship Evo is the best! I can't wait for just what this game will become as it develops.

To me this is the ultimate build mode. I said this before, it's like Avorion but with interiors and logic circuits. Absolute best dev ever^^

one of the absolute best spaceship building games right now if you simply want to make ships and explore your creativity.

Blocks sharing the same space or block clipping, this is something that so many vehicle building games have in one way or another (usually starts as a glitch, finishes as a feature) and it always adds to the detail and complexity of vehicle designs: Scrapmechanic's glitch welding, Stormworks' XML editing, Trailmakers' piston glitch, Plane Crazy's motorlock, Besiege advanced building. Also rigid hinges, so many vehicle building games have hinge joints that are just too weak. Either they go floppy with too much weight or start flapping back and forth or just don't move. High torque motors and hinges always feel nice in games, and slow speed high torque hinges/pistons for industrial vehicles is really cool. Finally, something I have always wanted in near every vehicle building game ever; scalable wedges! I have always wanted to make that wedge whatever slope I want, but its always a small selection of just a few wedge lengths, but I am very happy that this game has scalable (I assume and hope to infinity) wedges.

Some truly amazing stuff! The detailed options available with building in Starship EVO is both a blessing and a curse, at least for me, because I often get overwhelmed with all the different things possible and I get a sort of creative block. (No pun intended.)

Just the level of detail possible in this game is incredible! as someone who bought space engineers so many years ago simply because the ship building was so advanced this just seems like the next step! the flexible hoses, all the moving parts, THE LACK OF THE ELDER GOD CLANG!!!!!!!??????? just amazing. soon to become my most played game on steam once I have the money to buy it haha. Honestly I will probably keep the factions I have built on SE and make their ships a new in this game creating a full fleet for PDC (Planetary defense counsel) and the Federation each with independent fleets including primary carriers, support vessels, and atmospheric assault ships. it has been years since I've been excited for a game like I am for this one!

i've alwasy been a fan of building games like scrap mechanic, space engineer, trailblazers, etc. but i have never seen a game that has this much intricacy, detail, and thought put behind every aspect of building. the way that moving parts and the hose system and how it seems that nothing clips, and on top of that what looks to be a well built flight system and keybind system, all just come together for this. i'm super excited for this game's release, i'm going to wishlist it as soon as i post this comment. nice review btw, covered all the questions i had.

So the extreme flexibility of this building system is fantastic. For me, I think the ability to truly personalise a build, almost make it a home, really makes a great system. Whether I win a key or not, I’m certain I’m going to be checking this game out

It's really amazing what some people can accomplish in these building games. Thanks for the tour!

the most impressive is that you can make any design, from hover tank to starcitizen like ship with functionning stuff to capital ship to mecha ! amazing what a solo dev can do grand respect a toi createur de starhip evo, c'est le jeu que j'attendais ! (dev is french :P) (Big respect to you creator of starhip evo, this is the game I was waiting for)

The freedom of building what you have in mind is what sells me in. In Starship Evo, you're not fighting the game everytime you want to build a retractable landing gear or a door, the game is actually designed to help you through it. Also, those strechable blocks allow you to build any shape you want, imagine the highly detailed replicas of iconic ships! (just like that Hammerhead in the background) Small details in a build is what differentiates it from a simple build, and Starship Evo allows a deep level of detailing in your creations. And I'm not even mentionning all the integrated robotics and comuter units that help you add functionnality to your ship.

A game I've been waiting for for ages. I love the roleplay element; the cables, the little minute details like the coffee mugs, bathrooms.. Lemme grab Morphologis like we did in the old days and actually FINISH one of the 1-to-1 scale replica recreations of the homeworld ships, with working interiors. COME ON @MORPHOLOGIS! JOIN ME!

Customizable/programmable displays or screens could add even more details to our creations, allow better monitoring/control of ship systems, holographic billboards, maps or on-screen message displays/notifications. Maybe even a customizable UI per ship that only appears when piloting it (maybe also for stations). Being able to control screen size, font size, adding images maybe, SVG, color, etc. I think this would be very versatile and look cool. The possibilities would be endless!

I clicked on this because I saw the herc, hammerhead and Valkrie from starcitizen lol. Quite impressive that you can replicate those ships in this game.

8:25 i think the Decals/stickers are so cool to add that extra depth to a surface.

A lot of people already said it but , like I'm seeing star citizen ships everywhere, and more in space engineers and this game that btw is aweso , going to buy it soon

I'm already thinking up all kinds of vehicles like Landspeeders, Fast troop deployement Pods.. Also the attach funcion, i'm interrested how far it can go compaired to Space Engineers! Now you got me all excited for this game :D

Those hoses are incredible. I like to try to build in a more near future style, so for that those are a game changer

I think starship evo is the only game where I have come to fully experience the mental thrill that comes from trying to figure out logics and secuences tensting one's understanding of physics. Been almost 6 years and still trying to figure out how to create an elevator for multi floors. I think you should do a battle ship build video next. Lol😂✌

omg i cant wait to see the star trek ships being made in this, proper warp cores, engineering sections and such... omg im drooling....

Honestly I feel it isn't just the building in the game but the style of art the game is in, like space engineers is kinda more on the realistic like side while this is the simplistic smooth, which I think works better for this level of building because it helps things blend together better.

Wow that first dropship looks awesome. Wish we had that in more games! That is a really well designed ship.

The base game looks really neat for how young it is. With a few updates to the graphics and shaders this could really be a world beater.

Would love to see more of this game

Something that's very important to me in these building games is being able to box-select a portion and move it aside so i can get into the guts for modifications. Also being able to loopcut larger pieces into smaller ones if I find that I want to add additional detail to an area without deleting the whole thing that may have a whole bunch of detail work on top of it. I had issues with this in Avorion, certain changes were really difficult to make, and a lot of floating point nonsense causing things to never align unless you leaned on the "match block size" key, which wouldn't work as wanted if you're trying to fill in a gap of which the blocks that make up the sides of that gap go beyond it. kind of hard to describe

Small and big or bigger blocks being manilpulated and brought together in such a concert of enjoyment. Do whatever wherever says Starship Evo

Just having watched the Ahsoka series and then watching this, my mind is going a hundred miles an hour! So Cool!!

Definitely on my wish list after this video. Can’t wait to see where this game goes

i love the possibility's with this system you can make almost any thing looking forward to this one

To build one of those ships full size in real life, you would need one realy big 3D printer. Just don't ask me to try and fly one in space.

I've always been impressed by games that combine what it's usually two diferant genere's of games. I think it's really cool that Starship Evo isn't using the classic Space Engineers style of resource gathering, but is instead doing something that looks more like what you seen in the Factory game genre. I really hope the game continues to expand on the complexity of the crafting system, because I'm exited by the idea of a vehicle building game having that kind of crafting system in it.

The building system looks great, and having reliably moving and sealing components will make things so much easier. My main concern is the level of skill required for the building. I've found games where there is only one grid size are very easy to pick up, but the more useful features you add, the more complicated it gets. Robocraft 2, which is in early access right now has a similar system with scaling blocks after the first click, and while it is nice to have much longer slopes, it takes so much longer to build anything, as placing a block takes 3 clicks instead of 1. If they can address this, and also add some other gameplay (like how space engineers has all the material gathering and survival aspects) then this may easily become the best sci-fi engineering game I've come across.

That does look really fun. I've been playing dual universe for the building and voxels but they lack alot of the pre-made ship parts.

The little decorations blocks like the plants and coffee machine is what really makes this game stand out to me, I love making ships in Stormworks but detailing the interiors can be a big challenge.

I wish building games had is more material options and maybe the ability to craft new materials. And a skill tree or a tech that basically prevents you from just building very strong stuff early.

this is the type of game ive been looking for for a while

Omg tge ability to stretch blocks is something im missing in so many building games O^O Its so awesome for organic shapes and the possibilitys for new designs and details, im in awe

I think the biggest thing I like about these games is procedural parts. Now I haven't played this game but it looks like how Juno new origins is to KSP. KSP has more parts and features on paper, but Juno allows for way more creative building and incredibly cool looking rockets at the cost of being more complex and harder to learn. KSP just has a part for most things you would want and they snap together, while Juno has only 30 or so parts but they are all scalable in a way that makes it fun to engineer and lets you do so many more things. It really looks good too, procedural cables and scalable parts are insanely nice for detailing and if this game had a bit more to it then I think it could rival something like SE. I personally like Juno new origins way a lot more than KSP when taking nostalgia out of the equation and I think this game has a lot of potential. this isn't the main thing but I also really love computers and logic systems taking up a consistent amount of space in crafts and having individual parts of them being destructible, it makes for a really fun challenge of trying to program with redundancy in mind, and it makes ship damage control way more fun to do in my opinion. I was really hoping automations would do a bit more of this in terms of size consistency and the number of blocks you need for ships with relatively complex behaviors. this isn't the main or secondary thing but multiplayer adds a lot to games like this, it makes combat and crashing and building a lot more fun and a lot less tedious or frustrating if you have other humans to worry about and collaborate with. this isn't the main, secondary, or tertiary thing and doesn't seem to be in this or SE but I really love having big physical torpedoes that don't respawn when fired, or having to make physical ammo magazines and belt feeders to guns.

i don't have the money to get this game, but as a space engineer ship builder this looks like it will be fun to build some great looking ships

The best feature to me? Stretchable blocks, by far. That would easily solve a lot of the scaling issues you see in games like Space Engineers when trying to build ships of different sizes. Building larger grids out of small blocks in SE is a hassle. Though the rail line for attaching elevators and such is probably a close second, or maybe the apparent lack of Klang. Though only being single player would help a lot with that.

You mention 4 scales of blocks - That's only the "default" options. The F1 menu opens up the build grid options, which enables many settings, including allowing a minimum of 1/8m scale and maximum of 32m scale. In total, there's 1/8, 1/4, 1/2, 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32 meter block sizes.

Honestly all the moving parts from this gave me a bunch of really cool ideas for fighters and dropships, but also made me want to build a freighter fleet

I've always, always, always wanted to make a walker in SE but physics had other ideas. this game though makes it seem like it might be a little easier. i would love to make some spider tanks or something

I don’t even try to make my creations look nice in games that are limited to square blocks, I like smooth and shallow angles so if I can’t make them it’s not fun Also this games block placement reminded me a lot of avorion which is high praise from me

I have played Space engineers, Starbase, and Avorion. In Space engineres you can make good ships that look alright, but they are limited in the possible level of detail. In Starbase, you can make really cool looking ships, but the building system is very strict and discourages you from making large ships with interiors as they are objectivley worse. Avorion has a very similar building system to Starship Evo, but starship evo is first person whereas there is no use to make interiors in avorion, nor are you really able to. Starship Evo i think is the first game thats in position to allow players to make any ship they want look however they want without inherently sacrificing their performance. I think this is the first game of this genre that will allow people to recreate ships from their favorite franchises in a level of detail that would make someone second guess weather they are playing a game or watching a show/movie.

this game needs more attention, its fantastic

The ability to integrate multiple block sizes and stretch them at will is a breath of fresh air. I don’t feel like I need a math degree to build a space ship.

Amacing game yea, hope it gets more popular and dev get more resources to work with

This looks amazing for a detail-oriented builder/designer. It would be mind boggling if they allowed the ships you create to be exported for 3d print

One thing I've been wanting to incorperate into my designs are the various folding techniques that have been deployed in real space craft and deployable structure. From solar arrays that fold out several times wider while stationary and tuck away while moving too whole buildings that can fold up and fit into a ship smaller than the unfolded state.

I can't wait to see what the survival part of this game will become. Based on the level of detail that exists in ship building already, I'm sure they will come up with an incredible material collecting and building system for survival.

Something that I've wanted for a really long time is structural integrity for ships and stations in SE. Like they had on Medival Engineers that way ships collapse when weakened, it would also depend on the gravity of the planet. You can have skinny lanky ships for space and moons but they break under their own weight on planets. ETC

I think what makes or breaks is programming, hear me out. Seems like they got the physical engineering down but a big part of why space engineers is so successful is the ability to program "core" blocks to work with others in order to create something entirely different. Having blocks and settings that are the same but depending on how you set them up it could be a robotic arm, or a self aiming rail gun, or a mech, or a automated factory. What I'm saying is SE blocks are simple but very multipurpose and the program/settings allow much greater things, the thought put into making sure they all can work together to make your dreams a reality is why it's so good. If this game gets it I'm 100% on board, in a world of control, boundaries, and linear story, freedom is a great selling point. I hope I will get to try it! I would really appreciate a key lol I honestly don't have alot of money and have been very excited about this game. Thanks for the video, those ships remind me of that Hammehead Ship that's been showcased recently.

I really want the RPG elements and water like Empyrion and the building from Starship EVO on Space Engineers. I've been there from the very beginning and waited 10 years for their promises. Come on Keen.

I used to watch development of starship EVO a while ago. Never had enough time to buy and test the game and after some time I forgot about this gem. I hope its gonna became popular enough so it can be on par with some AAA games :D

I would love to see a bigger community that the only think keeping me from plying it

I would love that space engineer could have this amount of moving part on a ship without making everything klang out

While Space Engineers may not be able to do this scalable build system there is one thing SE can do to have a better build experience: Add a build view (similar to that in Stormworks). A build view would allow you to work on blueprints from within the game. Features for a build view could include cut sections and symmetry. The big new feature in build view could be to have 3D shape tools/plane tools. Eg you can draw a complex shape like a curve, tweak the shape and when ready get SE to populate the shape with blocks that best fit the shape. You can choose a solid fill or hollow fill etc .

This game is like the smaller, more individual scale version of Avorion. I loved how each building piece could be stretched and manipulated to any scale to build some absolutely AMAZING designs far exceeding anything else. But whereas Avorion focuses on the macro scale with pure shipbuilding and no moving parts and no crew besides menu numbers, this game fills the opposite side. Smaller scale ships that can be fully walked through and explored, moving parts with stability and a high degree of versatility. Starship Evo is like the opposite side of the same coin to Avorion. A superb addition to custom space building games.

The versatility of blocks determine how detailed a vehicle can be. In SE its limited to either large grid, small grid, or the use of sub-grids using both. Here we can see what we wished SE to be with no issues with sub-grids and a much larger assortment of every expansive blocks.

The biggest transport seems to be named "KEVYT", which means "LIGHT" (as in weight) in finnish :D and the crafts seem to be made by a finn, judging by command and ship names. (one cargo attachment point said "alusta", which means "platform" or "base"

Space engineers.....? What is that? This game might become the king of engineering in space!!! Great vid as usual!!!

Wish space engineers had some of these mechanics and blocks, if this game had multiplayer I'd be tempted to switch

All this game needs is survival and multiplayer, then it will be a game worthy of any sci-fi lovers game library. Actually, it already deserves to be in any sci-fi lovers library.

I was overwhelmed with how much and how detailed you can build things in this game. So much that my urge to build was out right stomped flat. I'll stick to flying everyone elses builds though.

All the ships are heavily inspired by Star Citizen Ships. The Dropship being the: Anvil VALKYRIE The Cargo ship being: Crusader C2 Hercules The Ship that wasn't shown looked like the: Ageis Hammerhead Bit more of a stretch for these The bendy hose fighter: Vanduul Glaive The other fighter looking to be after a: Aegis Gladius Still pretty cool to see them, but instantly recognized them

This is so cool, I have tried to build many ships from other games in space engineers and it's always so hard to get angles and details right to match the ship I'm trying to build. I do wonder how this game handles curves cause that's almost non existent in pace engineers.

If Starship Evo, Keen and Empyrion got together, I think they could make a close to perfect game