Quick Edit to Clarify (I like your comparison btw). When you are more the guy that is Fascinated by the beautiful graphics, and likes to discover like if you were in a NASA space mission, then I would recommend you Space Engine. When you are more the guy that likes to play god, create, destroy stuff, and wants to build around with the objects of the universe then I would strongly recommend you Universe Sandbox² Realism: Very realistic physics and data Accurate and realistic 3D map of the Something special actually flying through space for a sandbox game its Great: you can see all diffrent objectsĮnough I guess, but its not in a high resolution. Play around like a litte kid in a or remove objects. Sandbox as the name says: very good almost none: you can only change theĪspects: sandbox game where you can settings on the objects, but you cant add Operability: controls are easy to learn and Takes long to learn controls and manyĮverything is very clear settings and options make it a bit The framerate goes down very close on planets Lag free: If you spawn to many objects framerate goes down when you very fast Stableness of Almost never crashes Freezes sometimes

State of Game: early access alpha crowdfounding (alpha/beta) Space Engine could fit well as a proper sandbox with a game in the vein of Elite.īoth are great sims, indeed but each one do different thingsīoth programs are not proper games.So before I come to the comparison I just wanted to say that I love and played both games and I wished they would be combined to one game that would completely destroy my mind and social life. It is an Universe simulator/3D navigation planetarium where you travel or zoom in out at will any portion, or body in a seamless universe including the planet surfaces. Some of Kerbal, but without any proper game inside. In the other hand, Space Engine is closer of Orbiter or Celestia. You also can observe 'what if' scenarios or things which happened in the past regarding bodies movements and/or gravity.

Some kind of construction set, a gravity simulator where you create, manipullate, collide bodies etc. Universe Sandbox is that, a sandbox where you experiment.

Than you, guys :-) But both simulations have not much in common unlike what you might think Simply, comparison of the available options - the strengths and weaknesses (compared to other one) of both as you feel it. Which one is easier to control, more accurate, more enjoyable. Flanner: i know, both universe sandbox and space engine are sanboxes and i can see, there is some spaceship posibility in the second one, but i wonder if some of you tried both sandboxes and for some impressions.

Space engine or universe sandbox 2