Beginner Guide
Learn the controls, building interface, objectives, stations, progression system, and everything you should know before constructing your first serious spacecraft.
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Approximately Up
Build fully modular spaceships from thousands of components, wire your own systems, and pilot them from the cockpit. Explore 15 planets solo or with up to four players while completing missions and unlocking better ship parts.
- Launched Aug 6, 2026
- Updated Aug 14, 2026
- 94% Positive ReviewsResearch snapshot
- 15 Planets
- Up to 4 Players
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Your Approximately Up Journey
Build Your First Ship
Learn frames, batteries, thrusters, controls, power, cables, center of mass, and the minimum systems needed to launch a reliable first spacecraft.
Moon Landing & Planet Routes
Learn how to reach the Moon, control your descent, land safely, unlock stations, and prepare ships for longer journeys between planets.
Automation & PID Hover
Move beyond manual flight with sensors, logic components, controllers, automatic hover systems, landing assists, and advanced ship automation.
What is Approximately Up?
Approximately Up is a first-person space engineering sandbox by Approximately Games. Players construct modular spacecraft from individual frames, engines, batteries, cables, sensors, controllers, instruments, and other components before piloting their creations into space.
The game combines engineering, exploration, missions, progression, and chaotic co-op play. Completing objectives unlocks new components and stations, while different planets introduce their own gravity, atmosphere, temperature, terrain, and engineering challenges.
- Developer
- Approximately Games
- Platform
- Steam PC
- Genre
- Space Engineering Sandbox
- User Reviews
- 94%Research snapshot
- Planets
- 15
- Co-op
- Up to 4 Players
- Achievements
- 22
- Workshop Blueprints
- 586+Research snapshot
Ready to Master Approximately Up?
From your first barely functional rocket to automated interplanetary ships, our community wiki covers building, wiring, missions, planets, automation, blueprints, and everything you need to keep flying.