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Can Xbox and PlayStation players join my server?

Console players cannot join a Loafhosts Space Engineers server: it runs on Steam networking with console compatibility off. PC players on Steam can join.

Updated , checked on Space Engineers 1.210.014

No. Xbox and PlayStation players cannot join a Loafhosts Space Engineers server. It runs on Steam networking, with console compatibility switched off, and the panel sets both every time the server starts. Players on a PC with Steam can join.

Why consoles cannot join

Space Engineers has two kinds of server network. A Steam server is for PC players on Steam. An EOS server (EOS is Epic Online Services) is the kind that console players and PC players can share.

Keen Software House, the game’s makers, describe it this way: dedicated servers can enable EOS networking and console compatibility, and then they show up in the multiplayer menu on PC and console. Their later PlayStation announcement says the game launches with crossplay between PC, Xbox and PlayStation. That is about the game’s own EOS servers, not about Loafhosts.

A Loafhosts server is not one of them. In its log, the game reports Networking service: Steam and Console compatibility: No. The panel locks both settings, so you cannot change them in the Config Editor.

What your players should do

  1. Make sure every player owns Space Engineers on PC through Steam.
  2. Give them the server’s address, or its name: a new server is called Hosted By Loafhosts.com until its owner changes the Server name on Startup. See find your server’s address and join a Space Engineers server.
  3. In the game’s Join Game screen, keep the list on Steam. The EOS list holds the crossplay servers, and yours is not there.

If a console friend wants to play

  • They can play on the game’s own crossplay servers, the ones on the EOS list, but not on yours.
  • The game’s wiki says a server set up for cross-platform play cannot use Steam Workshop mods. A server with mods is a PC server in practice.

If it does not work for a PC player

  • They cannot see the server. They may be on the EOS list, or a filter may be on. Use Direct Connect with the address (not checked with a player on 1.210 as of 15 November 2026: how Direct Connect takes the port). See server not in the server list.
  • They are on a console. They cannot join. Nothing on the server will change that.

More about the game: Space Engineers servers.

Sources: spaceengineersgame.com: Space engineers community crossplay, spaceengineersgame.com: Space engineers playstation, spaceengineers.wiki.gg: Setting up a Space Engineers Dedicated Server

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