Juno: New Origins

Jundroo, LLC

About this game

After six years of development, what began as a simple rocket simulator has become a comprehensive aerospace sandbox in which you can bring to life anything you can imagine - from rockets, airplanes, and cars to entire planets. Over time, the more we added, the more SimpleRockets 2 outgrew its name. With much consideration we have decided to change the name to "Juno: New Origins" - a title that symbolizes a new start.

AEROSPACE SANDBOX
Juno: New Origins is a 3D aerospace sandbox where players can use customizable parts to construct and test rockets, planes, cars, or anything they can imagine in an environment with realistic physics across land, sea, air, and space.

CAREER MODE + TECH TREE
Take control of your own aerospace company and earn money and tech points as you progress through the game. Complete contracts to earn money, and discover a mixture of hand-crafted and procedural contracts that offer countless hours of new gameplay. Conquer milestones and explore landmarks to earn tech points and unlock new technology in the tech tree. Interactive tutorials are available to show how to build and operate rockets, cars, and airplanes.

RESIZE AND RESHAPE PARTS
Stretch and shape fuel tanks, wings, cargo bays, fairings, and nose cones with easy-to-use tools that help you create exactly what you want. Resize solar panels, landing gear, pistons, jet engines, etc to fit your needs. Paint your craft custom colors and tweak their reflectiveness, emissiveness, and texture styles.

DESIGN ROCKET AND JET ENGINES
Engines can be adjusted in a myriad of ways, such as changing the power cycle, combustion pressure, gimbal range, fuel type, and adjusting nozzle performance and visuals. You can customize an engine to be a power house for lift off, or to be a super optimized vacuum engine that maximizes Isp for interplanetary travel. The engine's performance affects its visuals in flight too as shown by the exhaust's expansion or contraction based on its interplay with the atmospheric pressure. Shock diamonds are pretty but they are a symptom of suboptimal engine performance! If you don't care about any of this, then you can just attach a pre-built engine and hit launch!

PROGRAM YOUR CRAFTS
Easily drag and drop code blocks to program your crafts to log telemetry, automate them, design your own MFD touch screens, etc. With Vizzy, a programming language designed specifically for Juno: New Origins, you can expand the capabilities of your crafts while learning programming, maths, physics, etc.

REALISTIC ORBIT SIMULATION
Orbits are realistically simulated and support time-warp so you don't have to wait several months to reach another planet. The Map View makes it easy to see your orbits and plan future burns, which you can use to set up future encounters with other planets or satellites.

DOWNLOAD CRAFTS, SANDBOXES, AND MORE
Download from a huge collection of user-uploaded crafts, sandboxes, and planets on SimpleRockets.com. Upload your own crafts and sandboxes and share them with the community. Rise through the ranks from a white level builder to a gold level builder and beyond.

Ratings and reviews

Would be 5 stars but in the career mode, it gives you a stupid tutorial quest that I assume unlocks other quests, it's a flight tutorial that seems innocent at first until it requires you to be a god level stunt pilot and fly close to the runway on part 8, keep in mind that this is a cellphone game. Flying a plane on a phone is not at all easy and this is supposed to be a tutorial. Other than that, the game is pretty good.

Great game👍 gives you everything you can want in a spaceflight sim. Love that you can download rockets and planes directly from within the app. Love the realism of the game as well. The sound quality of the game is also great. The u.i can be a bit overwhelming at first, but I personally got kind of used to it after just a few days. Overall, I'm happy with my purchase.

Ever want to just build a rocket, and fly to the moon, just to see if you can do it? This game is fantastic. Works well even on older phones. Makes complex rocket stuff as simple as it can be. Go fast, thrust prograde, keep the pointy part pointed towards the blue part, orbits are easily managed at their high and low points, crashes are part of the game. Ok, boom...you're ready to fly. Developer is very responsive, pleasant, and will even answer your questions on Reddit.

What's new

Fixed bug causing settings to revert to defaults when starting on mobile.