History VideoGame / UniverseSandbox

The game is available on UsefulNotes/{{Steam}} [[https://store.steampowered.com/app/230290/Universe_Sandbox/ here]] and Website/GOGDotCom [[https://www.gog.com/en/game/universe_sandbox here]]. The game's official website is also available [[https://universesandbox.com/ here]]. Keep in mind that the game is still in Early Access, as the developers plan on adding much more content to it before it is considered complete.

** The Auto-Orbit feature, which puts planets in circlar orbits around stars/other planets. This is helpful when attempting to make a solar system.

* WideOpenSandbox: The game allows the player to mess around with any of its tools from when first starting the game.

-->--'''LetsPlay/{{Markiplier}}''', multiple times while [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_ZMeOh_VBc playing this game]].

* VirtualReality: A VR gamemode exists for the game. It allows you to pick up any planet and toss it with your controllers.

* NamingYourColonyWorld: The game has its own conventions for randomized planet names (expect a lot of planets with Nus or Tus in the name). Of course, the player can name a planet whatever the hell they'd like.

* EasterEgg: If you name a gas giant UsefulNotes/{{Jupiter}}, and make it close to the planet's mass and radius, the Great Red Spot may appear on it.
** You can create magic cold stars with negative luminosity. They will become purple, and make everything around them extremely cold.

The game is available on Steam [[https://store.steampowered.com/app/230290/Universe_Sandbox/ here]] and Website/GOGDotCom [[https://www.gog.com/en/game/universe_sandbox here]]. The game's official website is also available [[https://universesandbox.com/ here]]. Keep in mind that the game is still in Early Access, as the developers plan on adding much more content to it before it is considered complete.

** You can create stars with negative luminosity. They will become purple, and make everything around them extremely cold.

* ArtisticLicenseSpace: Generally averted, the game follows real physics fairly accurately. There are a couple examples to [[RuleOfFun make the game more fun]], such as throwing planets faster than lightspeed, or some of the customization options.

* DeathWorld: Putting a planet too close to its' star or making it collide with other planets will result in this due to the sheer temperature. Extremely high temperatures make a planet vaporize, however.

* {{Terraform}}: The player can edit a planet to do essentially this, and watch as its' life likelihood goes up.

* AlienSea: The player can customize the color of the water on a planet's surface, meaning it can be anything from purple to blood red.
* AlienSky: A planet's sky can have as many stars and moons the player puts. The atmosphere itself can also be any color (blue by default).

* NoPlotNoProblem: While the game has no plot ''per se'', there are various pre-built simulations made by developers, some of which are based on real-world events. [[WordOfGod The developers have also stated]] that they'd like to add missions to the game.

* NamingYourColonyWorld: The game has its own conventions for randomized planet names, expect a lot of planets with Nus in the name. Of course, the player can name a planet whatever the hell they'd like.

* VideoGameCrueltyPotential: Alternatively, the player can destroy planets by making them collide with others, detonating supernovae and watching them vaporize, or place a moon extremely close and letting tidal forces do the job. You could also take the simple route and using the [[EarthShatteringKaboom Explode]] tool on it.