You can add another star to our solar system and watch it rip the planets from their orbits. Unlike most astronomy software that just shows you what the sky looks like or where the planets are, Universe Sandbox is a powerful gravity simulator. “Universe Sandbox Legacy is an interactive space simulator for Windows-based PCs first released in 2008. Our game page has been updated to reflect the original, delisted “Legacy” edition. In February of 2020, Giant Army changed the name of Universe Sandbox² to simply ‘Universe Sandbox’. In development for 3 years, it features improved gravity physics, collisions, climate, material compositions, stellar evolution, and supernovas.” “Universe Sandbox ² is a complete rewrite of the original. On August 24th, 2014 the following message was pinned to the Universe Sandbox discussion page on Steam: Watching the Earth being destroyed, we realized how. Xia Xia promoted this game again on the homepage. The ending days of the earth Universe Sandbox 2 PC Game 2015 Overview: The cosmic sandbox is a cosmic simulator worth playing.
The game appears to have been removed to encourage purchases of the follow-up, Universe Sandbox². Universe Sandbox 2 is an Action, Simulation, and Casual game for PC published by Giant Army in 2015. Through February of 2017 the “Legacy” edition of the game was available to download directly from the developers site but was later removed with a note that “Universe Sandbox Legacy is no longer available for purchase or download”. At that time its price was reduced to $0.00 meaning the page is still accessible on Steam today but the game cannot be purchased. Universe Sandbox was removed from Steam on November 4th, 2016. Universe Sandbox homepage Steam page SteamDB page
