10 Video Games That Let You Destroy The World

2. Universe Sandbox

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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 almost nine years, and is currently Doctor Who Editor and WhoCulture Channel Manager, overseeing all of WhatCulture's Whoniverse coverage. He has been writing and video editing for 10+ years, and first got a taste for content creation after making his own Doctor Who trailers and uploading them to YouTube (they're admittedly a bit rusty by today's standards). If you need someone to recite every Doctor Who episode in order or to tell you about the making of 1988's Remembrance of the Daleks, Danny is the person to ask.