Candy Box 2 -- there is more to this than meets the eye: https://candybox2.github.io/. Source: about 1 year ago

Looking as an outsider you will see a bunch of weird-ass ASCII art that doesn't even look that good compared to, say, Candy Box, while as the actual player you're actually wrestling an eldritch beast made of deadly gas into the ground as you pulp it with a dead giant's body. Source: over 1 year ago

Not really like the games you mentioned but Candy Box 2, A Dark Room, and Kittens Game are some of the best browser-based idle games ever. Source: over 1 year ago

Not Candy Box or Candy Box 2, was it? Dubious guess but it does keep coming up. Source: over 1 year ago

I appreciate anyone suggesting CC Classic, but since I'd expect a JS Console minigame to be text-based, then maybe it should be more like Candybox2 (https://candybox2.github.io/ which if I'm not mistaken was part of the inspriation for CC!). Source: over 1 year ago

I played a PC game called "Osmos" (http://osmos-game.com/) like back in 2012 or so. It has all this electronic ambient music as the soundtrack. However, the soundtrack is not created for the game. Rather, the soundtrack is a selection of pre-existing tracks already produced by a few electronic music artists. The link above is one of my favorites. Source: almost 2 years ago

You can physically demonstrate orbit with some fabric stretched over a frame, but I really think video games are going to be your best friend here. Osmos (Free demo, $5 full) is a great starting point that uses simplified gravity in two dimensions. Orbit (Free app, $5 on Steam) is another, similar game to introduce orbit. Once you've graduated to three dimensions, Universe Sandbox ($30, $20 on GOG) will really... Source: almost 2 years ago