I feel like thermodynamics must be true in pretty much any conceivable universe that evolves over time.
Perhaps instead of Brownian motion you'd have something more directed. Scientists inhabiting the universe would observe a "force" that brings elements of like kind together into nice orderly structures instead of random soups. It would be as if time ran in reverse. Perhaps instead of a big bang, the initial state would be a flat universe with just the minutest of perturbations in the energy gradient that would gradually evolve into a state of maximum order.