Universe sandbox 2 compressed movie#
Universe sandbox 2 compressed simulator#

Usually the best you can hope for is author(s) acknowledging and trying to address the the unfortunate implications for causality.Īliens are probably pretty realistic in general - I don't believe in miracles, including in us being one. Superluminal travel is hard to avoid in almost all games and a lot of other sci-fi. I haven't played Stable Orbit or Race to Mars yet. Rogue System, for instance, is highly technical when it comes to electronics and such, but still includes a handful of things that are considered pseudoscience today, including an Energy Catalyser, VASIMR, EmDrive, and laser cooler that violates thermodynamics. Star Wars, on the other hand, never attempted.Ī few points that detract from scientific accuracy include superluminal travel, communication, anti-gravity, aliens, AI, airplane or submarine physics in space, absence of propellant or radiators, and super-sleep.Īlso, there's ambiguity between realism, scientific accuracy, and technical accuracy. Both at least attempted realism or technical accuracy. I'm not familiar with the differences between Frontier, Freespace, I-War, X and all of the old classics, but I think Elite Dangerous, Mass Effect, and Star Citizen should rank slightly above average.Ģ001 is unrealistic, but highly technically accurate, while Armageddon conversely is realistic, but highly technically inaccurate.

Universe sandbox 2 compressed movie#

Obviously I use movie examples since there aren't a lot of games to go around exactly.

Universe sandbox 2 compressed simulator#

Shoutouts to Space Engine, Universe Sandbox, Celestia, Orbiter, Reentry, Space Shuttle Mission 2007, Take On Mars, Surviving Mars, Mars Horizon, and the apps Space Simulator, F-sim Space Shuttle, Spaceflight Simulator, and TerraGensis.Īlso shoutouts to the old classics like Microsoft Space Simulator (1994), Outpost (1994), and small passion projects like Aurora 4X, FARColony, and High Frontier.Ĩ: Historically accurate (The Right Stuff, Apollo 13, First Man)ħ: Realistic (Marooned, Europa Report, Gravity, The Martian)Ħ: Quantitatively scientifically accurate (CDE & KSP, probably Spacefighter Inc)ĥ: Qualitatively scientifically accurate (Helium Rain, for instance there are radiators but they aren't necessarily the right sizes, Shattered Horizon)Ĥ: Slightly inaccurate (2001, Contact, Solaris, Moon, Interstellar, Arrival) I strongly recommend checking out Helium Rain, which unfortunately hasn't got any attention from major websites! Rogue System is really spectacular, but it's a study sim and that's certainly not everyone's thing. Race to Mars (2014-2016, abandoned, unabandoned, 2017- with new developer).Shattered Horizon (2009, still available on eBay).Stable Orbit (2017, permanently abandoned).

Rogue System (2016-2018, temporarily abandoned).

Hey, here's all realistic sci-fi simulators I know (development years):