Universe Sandbox on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information

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Create & destroy on an unimaginable scale with a realistic physics-based space simulator. Explore the beauty of our universe and the fragility of our planet. Use science to bend the laws of gravity, collide planets, boil away oceans, fire epic space lasers, and customize your universe.

Universe Sandbox is a sandbox, space and simulation game developed and published by Giant Army.
Released on August 24th 2015 is available on Windows and MacOS in 28 languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Hungarian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese - Portugal, Russian, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Bulgarian, Greek, Romanian, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Filipino and Indonesian.

It has received 26,874 reviews of which 25,903 were positive and 971 were negative resulting in an impressive rating of 9.4 out of 10. 😍

The game is currently priced at 28.99€ on Steam, but you can find it for 13.29€ on Instant Gaming.

The Steam community has classified Universe Sandbox into these genres:

Sandbox Space Simulation Physics Science Destruction Realistic God Game Education Singleplayer Relaxing Early Access Family Friendly Open World Casual Indie Atmospheric Sci-fi Space Sim Exploration

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System requirements

These are the minimum specifications needed to play the game. For the best experience, we recommend that you verify them.

Windows

OS: Windows 10 21H1+ (64-bit, x86)
Processor: 1.6 GHz dual-core
Memory: 4 GB RAM
Graphics: 4 GB Video Memory†, Shader Model 6.0
DirectX: Version 12
Storage: 4 GB available space
Additional Notes: † Laptops or other computers that use integrated graphics (rather than dedicated graphics hardware) may see issues with Universe Sandbox even if they meet the video memory requirement. Dedicated video hardware is recommended.

MacOS

OS: macOS 11.0
Processor: Apple M1, 1.6 GHz dual-core
Memory: 4 GB RAM
Graphics: Metal, 4 GB Video Memory†
Storage: 4 GB available space
Additional Notes: † Laptops or other computers that use integrated graphics (rather than dedicated graphics hardware) may see issues with Universe Sandbox even if they meet the video memory requirement. Dedicated video hardware is recommended.

User reviews & Ratings

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March 2025

---{ Graphics }--- ☐ You forget what reality is ☑ Beautiful ☐ Good ☐ Decent ☐ Bad ☐ Don‘t look too long at it ☐ MS-DOS ---{ Gameplay }--- ☑ Very good ☐ Good ☐ It's just gameplay ☐ Mehh ☐ Watch paint dry instead ☐ Just don't ---{ Audio }--- ☑ Eargasm ☐ Very good ☐ Good ☐ Not too bad ☐ Bad ☐ I'm now deaf ---{ Audience }--- ☐ Kids ☑ Teens ☑ Adults ☐ Grandma ---{ PC Requirements }--- ☐ Check if you can run paint ☐ Potato ☑ Decent ☐ Fast ☐ Rich boi ☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer ---{ Game Size }--- ☐ Floppy Disk ☐ Old Fashioned ☑ Workable ☐ Big ☐ Will eat 15% of your 1TB hard drive ☐ You will want an entire hard drive to hold it ☐ You will need to invest in a black hole to hold all the data ---{ Difficulty }--- ☐ Just press 'W' ☑ Easy ☐ Easy to learn / Hard to master ☐ Significant brain usage ☐ Difficult ☐ Dark Souls ---{ Grind }--- ☑ Nothing to grind ☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks ☐ Isn't necessary to progress ☐ Average grind level ☐ Too much grind ☐ You'll need a second life for grinding ---{ Story }--- ☑ No Story ☐ Some lore ☐ Average ☐ Good ☐ Lovely ☐ It'll replace your life ---{ Game Time }--- ☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee ☐ Short ☐ Average ☐ Long ☑ To infinity and beyond ---{ Price }--- ☐ It's free! ☑ Worth the price ☐ If it's on sale ☐ If u have some spare money left ☐ Not recommended ☐ You could also just burn your money ---{ Bugs }--- ☐ Never heard of ☑ Minor bugs ☐ Can get annoying ☐ ARK: Survival Evolved ☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs ---{ ? / 10 }--- ☐ 1 ☐ 2 ☐ 3 ☐ 4 ☐ 5 ☐ 6 ☐ 7 ☐ 8 ☑ 9 ☐ 10 ---{ Author }--- ☑ https://vojtastruhar.github.io/steam-review-template

March 2025

This is not a game. This should not be marketed as a game. This is fully-functioning physics/space sim software, that's complexity and usability easily rivals software made by Google, NASA, and many other programs widely used for educational purposes. This should be used in schools, university or high schools, to teach physics. It has more grounds for a governmental education contract than any program I've ever used for school. When this project leaves early access I hope the developers work to expand the scope of this project beyond being a 'game'. I cant imagine the power this software might have, to teach, in the hands of a good physics instructor.

Jan. 2025

This is the best sandbox game. it has cool graphics and is super fun i totally recommend this - also if you right-click universe sandbox in your library and go to properties then betas and NONE and click !Preview version {something like that} and is under none then you can make the game more realistic

Sept. 2024

---{ Graphics }--- ☑ You forget what reality is ☐ Beautiful ☐ Good ☐ Decent ☐ Bad ☐ Don‘t look too long at it ☐ MS-DOS ---{ Gameplay }--- ☑ Very good ☐ Good ☐ It's just gameplay ☐ Mehh ☐ Watch paint dry instead ☐ Just don't ---{ Audio }--- ☐ Eargasm ☑ Very good ☐ Good ☐ Not too bad ☐ Bad ☐ I'm now deaf ---{ Audience }--- ☑ Kids ☑ Teens ☐ Adults ☐ Grandma ---{ PC Requirements }--- ☐ Check if you can run paint ☐ Potato ☐ Decent ☑ Fast ☐ Rich boi ☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer ---{ Game Size }--- ☐ Floppy Disk ☑ Old Fashioned ☐ Workable ☐ Big ☐ Will eat 10% of your 1TB hard drive ☐ You will want an entire hard drive to hold it ☐ You will need to invest in a black hole to hold all the data ---{ Difficulty }--- ☐ Just press 'W' ☐ Easy ☑ Easy to learn / Hard to master ☐ Significant brain usage ☐ Difficult ☐ Dark Souls ---{ Grind }--- ☑ Nothing to grind ☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks ☐ Isn't necessary to progress ☐ Average grind level ☐ Too much grind ☐ You'll need a second life for grinding ---{ Story }--- ☑ No Story ☐ Some lore ☐ Average ☐ Good ☐ Lovely ☐ It'll replace your life ---{ Game Time }--- ☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee ☐ Short ☐ Average ☐ Long ☑ To infinity and beyond ---{ Price }--- ☐ It's free! ☑ Worth the price ☐ If it's on sale ☐ If u have some spare money left ☐ Not recommended ☐ You could also just burn your money ---{ Bugs }--- ☑ Never heard of ☐ Minor bugs ☐ Can get annoying ☐ ARK: Survival Evolved ☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs ---{ ? / 10 }--- ☐ 1 ☐ 2 ☐ 3 ☐ 4 ☐ 5 ☐ 6 ☐ 7 ☐ 8 ☐ 9 ☑ 10

Aug. 2024

This game is very well designed to please the weekend astrologist to the student of astrophysics. Although it can be a hog on PC horsepower (the more you throw at it, the more it smiles), it delivers mesmerizing graphical events. A universe in a sandbox which, I believe follows a realistic physics model. Give this a try with a good VR headset and smoke a big doober.

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