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Universe For Sale

Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 4, Android, PC (Microsoft Windows), iOS, PlayStation 5, Mac, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch • 2023

Should you play it?

A space station nestled in the clouds of Jupiter. A bizarre bazaar where a young, worried woman crafts entire universes in the palm of her hand. A mysterious cultist who's stripped the flesh from his bones in order to reach enlightenment. Here, there's a universe for sale. You buying?

What works

  • Beautiful hand-drawn art style
  • Deep and unique worldbuilding
  • Engaging nonlinear narrative
  • Relaxing ambient music and atmosphere
  • Creative universe creation minigames

Things to keep in mind

  • Slow pacing and limited gameplay challenge
  • Short playtime with limited replay value
  • Some bugs and technical issues reported
  • Lack of save/load flexibility
  • Minimal player agency and interaction

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feel the closest overall

  • Threefold Recital

  • Forgotton Anne

  • The Inner World

  • Minute of Islands

  • The Supper

  • The Blind Prophet

  • Elroy and the Aliens

  • A Space for the Unbound

  • Edna & Harvey: Harvey's New Eyes

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Hidden Gems

Less popular games with surprisingly high similarity

  • Night Reverie: Prologue

  • The Endless Journey

  • Voodoo Detective

If you liked…

Recommendations by what you enjoyed most

  • Fantasy

    The Inner World
  • Story

    A Space for the Unbound
  • Creativity

    Ittle Dew

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How to use the graph

Similarity map

Each dot is a game. They are arranged from the game’s motivation profile. Closer dots usually mean more similar reasons to play (exploration, competition, relaxation, etc.)—not that one game is “better” than another.

  • Purple star: this page’s game — everything on the map is relative to it.
  • Coloured chips: click to highlight games that mainly differ on that motivation; click again to reset.
  • Dotted line: link between this page’s game and the one selected for comparison.
  • Hover a dot to preview that game in the panel on the right; click to keep that comparison.
  • Scroll or double-click the chart to zoom out and see more games.

Why don’t the axes read like a score? This view uses t-SNE: it only keeps who is close to whom. The scales are not “good to bad” or hours played—they separate groups on the map. Read distance between dots, not the axis numbers (hidden on purpose).

Universe For Sale: A very typical example of its motivational profile. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Survival, Violence, Competition, Thrill. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Intimacy. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Value, Thrill.

Last update: 26/07/2026