Now, more than 15 years later, the full set of outer space simulation tools is still Dixon’s passion project. Universe Sandbox 2 got its start when Dixon began dabbling with a simple gravity simulator in high school. It won’t be for everyone, but its great for those who like these kind of games.“It really becomes the world’s best god simulator,” Dan Dixon tells me describing what will happen to his life’s work, Universe Sandbox 2, once the VR support he is working to implement goes live. The endless possibilities make for a lot of replay, but it doesn’t require a player to sit down for hours on end. It’s a great way to relax and waste some time. Overall, I really enjoy playing Universe Sandbox. Adding music via a media player is a great way to get around the lack of audio, but it shouldn’t be necessary. That being said, there is sound in the game for menu navigation, explosions and other such things. The game is a simulator and there’s no sound in space, so it could be said that it simulates that accurately. The audio in Universe Sandbox is a little lacking. You aren’t going to get hyper-realistic explosions or anything like that out of the game, but they definitely do enough to get the point across.

The graphics in Universe Sandbox are solid.

That being said, players who need an objective in their games aren’t likely to get much of out this game. It’s easy to get lost in just building universes and watching how different events or additions to it can change everything around. There isn’t really much of a point to Universe Sandbox, but I really feel like that was the point. Players even have the ability to add black holes to their universe and watch it suck up everything it can get a hold of. Players can affect the gravity of the stars, sun planets and other object taking up the space. Universe Sandbox allows players a lot of customization in how they build their universe. How many doomsday prophesies did we just fulfill? When I say explore, I mean look around at all the different formations and rotations of planets in the universe. Universe Sandbox allows players to create an infinite number of universes to play with and explore. However, I really do find myself able to enjoy this game. That’s strange for me because I’m not a big fan of simulators. The game isn’t exactly a game, but it’s more of a simulator. Universe Sandbox is a strange game to have in my Steam library. This week I spent my time exploring the cosmos in Universe Sandbox.

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