The alternative is using the keyboard and mouse to move about but, quite frankly, how successful you are with the control scheme is pretty 50/50. There is a Sims-like camera control menu in the bottom left of the screen, but it is very slow and tedious to use. The controls are incredibly poor and unresponsive, which is this Universe Sandbox’s biggest fault. I haven’t even touched all of the sliders and, truth be told, I’m a little afraid to because one false move and you’ll completely upset whatever you’ve been working on unless you’re one hundred percent sure of what you are doing. There are about three pages of text fields and sliders to play with for each object you set down in space, which is pretty insane. Fans of science fiction series like Star Trek or Star Wars would surely like this as it grants them the ability to quite literally recreate their favourite solar systems and such. You can also edit the model and texture of any celestial bodies, which grants you the ability to make entirely new planets or suns. So, what can be edited when you set down something like a planet? Diameter and mass top the list, and putting them both up to insanely high numbers results in some funny situations, like watching an unfathomingly huge Earth sucking in the entire Milky Way. There are lots of simulations to play with as well, or you can start with a blank universe and build your own galaxies and solar systems complete with fully orbiting planets and moons. While you can’t really have much fun with things like nebulas or quasars, you can place and edit any asteroid, planet, moon, or sun that you can think of. In this open-ended sandbox title, there is no limit to what you can do with the tools given to you. KABLAMO! Yes, you are allowed to throw asteroids at the Earth. Hell, are you even wild enough to want to make Andromeda crash into the Milky Way? Again, that can be done. Want to make the moon crash into Earth? That is also possible.
Want to take our solar system and add a few new moons to planets or change the order of the planets from the sun? You can do that. In Universe Sandbox, you quite literally get to do whatever you want with our universe. Universe Sandbox is, well, a universe sandbox made by developer Giant Army and released at the end of April 2011. You will, however, know what you can do in Universe Sandbox. Is it a game? Not really… But then why is it even on Steam and why does it cost money? These are questions I really don’t think I can even answer and, by the time you are finished reading this review, you won’t be any closer to knowing the answers yourself. What is Universe Sandbox? Well, that’s a pretty good question.
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