10 Video Game Weapons That Let You Destroy Entire Worlds

When it comes to total annihilation, the real-time strategy game Stellaris boasts the most impressive collection of weapons. The game contains eight different types of planet killers, as well as a Star-Eater ship capable of destroying entire solar systems by turning their suns into black holes.

The weapons are special modules for the ginormous Colossus-type ship that the player unlocks based on their empire type. You have beams that blow up planetary cores, beams that drown the planet in an endless ocean, beams that pump it full of radioactive waste, and beams that devolve every single sentient species into animals, just to name a few.

The variety of global disasters the player can create on a whim in this game is truly staggering. But the best part is that with each new DLC release for Stellaris, the developers design another shiny new planet killer that adds another spicy way to turn the galaxy into a harrowing landscape of broken planets and billions of dead aliens.