10 Video Games That Let You Destroy The World

2. Universe Sandbox

Universe Sandbox Earth crashing into moon
Dan Dixon

Part video game, part educational tool, Universe Sandbox allows players to mess around with the solar system, running simulations, experimenting with different planets and moons, or, indeed, causing mass destruction.

There's some really interesting stuff you can do here, from slowing down or speeding up time and just watching the Earth spin around, to increasing the mass and diameter of certain planets and observing what happens to their surroundings.

It's a great learning tool if you're at all interested in the solar system, but for many players, it was simply a way to annihilate the Earth with some degree of realism.

And there are countless things you can do to achieve that goal. You can send some asteroids crashing into its surface, create a black hole and suck in the surrounding planets, or make the moon absolutely gigantic so that it collides with the Earth and wipes it out in a flash. Science!

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Danny has been with WhatCulture for over ten years, and is currently Doctor Who Editor and WhoCulture Channel Manager, overseeing all of WhatCulture's Whoniverse coverage. In 2022, he took charge of WhoCulture and has grown it into the biggest Doctor Who channel on YouTube, and one of the biggest Doctor Who communities on the web full-stop. He has been writing and video editing since his early teens, and first got a taste for content creation after making his own Doctor Who trailers, off the back of a burning obsession with the Matt Smith era of the show. Like many his age, he first got into Doctor Who with the 2005 revival, but has since gone back and fallen in love with the classic years too. If you need someone to recite every Doctor Who episode in order, or to give you a random factoid about the making of Gridlock, Danny is the person to ask!