Universe Sandbox
Short description
Create & destroy on an unimaginable scale with a realistic physics-based space simulator. Explore the beauty of our universe and the fragility of our planet. Use science to bend the laws of gravity, collide planets, boil away oceans, fire epic space lasers, and customize your universe. VR optional.
- Developer
- Giant Army
- Publisher
- Giant Army
- Release
- Mon, Aug 24, 2015
- Price
$29.99
$20.09
33%- Reviews
- 28,055
- Positive
- 96%
- Followers
- 176,425
- Owners (estimated)
- 1M – 2M
- Concurrent players
- 357
- Genres
- Casual, Indie, Simulation, Early Access
- Features
- Steam Workshop, Adjustable Text Size, Camera Comfort, Color Alternatives, Custom Volume Controls, Mouse Only Option, Playable without Timed Input, Save Anytime, Touch Only Option, Partial Controller Support, Includes level editor, HDR available
- Tags
Review count and SteamSpy's owner range agree well enough to narrow the estimate down to this band. Multiplied by $27.37, the average price these copies actually sold for — weighted from the price history rather than taken from the $29.99 launch price. That is 9% below list price on average. Before Steam's cut, VAT and refunds. How these numbers are calculated.
Waiting for Universe Sandbox to get cheaper? Name your price and we will email you when it gets there.
Media
History
86 data points since Aug 7, 2026. Gaps mean nothing changed — the value carries forward.
The revenue curve is an estimate, not a measurement. It is the only calculated series here: each interval takes the review growth of that period, multiplies it by the sales-per-review factor and by the price actually charged at the time, and adds the result to the running total. That is why it climbs more slowly through discount periods than the review curve next to it. The last point is the same figure quoted above — gross, before Steam's cut, VAT and refunds. How these numbers are calculated.
The blurred area is the rest of the history. 296 further data points reach back to Feb 1, 2013 — your plan shows the last 90 days of it. How far each series in particular reaches is written on its own chart; not every one of them goes back that far. The shape in the blurred area is decoration, not data: the figures are not in this page at all. Plus unlocks the complete series.
Lowest recorded price: $14.99 on Aug 20, 2017.
Similar games that found an audience
Games sharing at least 3 of this title's leading tags, with enough reviews to have gone somewhere. Ranked by how much they overlap, not by how big they are. − missing and + extra mark the tags each one does not share with Universe Sandbox. Studio counts the titles that developer has released — the closest thing to production scale that public data allows. It is not a budget, and nobody publishes those.
| Image | Name | Studio | Shared | Tag difference | Price | Reviews | Positive | Released | Revenue (estimated) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Kerbal Space Program | Squad first game | 5 | − Destruction + Space Sim | $39.99 | 121,587 | 96% | Mon, Apr 27, 2015 | $157m $76.5m – $157m |
|
Besiege | Spiderling Studios first game | 4 | − Space − Science + Medieval + Building | $14.99 | 48,141 | 95% | Tue, Feb 18, 2020 | $21.3m $10.7m – $21.3m |
|
Kerbal Space Program 2 | Intercept Games first game | 4 | − Simulation − Destruction + Exploration + Building | $49.99 | 27,993 | 26% | Fri, Feb 24, 2023 | $49.4m $27.7m – $49.4m |
|
Hardspace: Shipbreaker | Blackbird Interactive 10 titles | 4 | − Sandbox − Science + Sci-fi + Singleplayer | $34.99 | 19,488 | 90% | Tue, May 24, 2022 | $28.6m $28.6m – $44.6m |
|
ACTION SANDBOX | Vona Soft 3 titles | 4 | − Space − Science + Building + 2D | $9.99 | 785 | 73% | Thu, Apr 21, 2022 | $480k $480k – $603k |
There are more like this. Your plan shows the 5 closest neighbours; Plus and Pro show up to 100 — enough to see the shape of a niche instead of a sample of it.