10 Video Games That Let You Destroy The World
9. Stellaris
Set in the distant future, Stellaris is all about navigating the vastness of space, growing your budding civilization into a full-on intergalactic empire.
Depending on your choices, you can either be a little goody-two-shoes and engage in diplomatic relationships with various other life forms, forging trade agreements and alliances for the overall good of the galaxy. Alternatively... you can blow all other sentient life out of the sky. The choice is yours.
Unfortunately for those who favour destruction over peace, the game didn't feature any world-demolishing mechanics in its earlier days, but the Apocalypse DLC added in a planet-killing ship called "Colossus", a mighty super-weapon that can eradicate entire worlds with an enormous, Death Star-esque beam of energy.
The trade-off here is that Colossus has no weapons to defend itself, and you can only construct one at a time. Still, considering how utterly helpless other planets are against its laser beam, it's the perfect tool if you want to become a scarily dominant force within the galaxy.