Recent reviews by el Boydo

Teardown is one of those rare games that manage to deliver a large quantity of content with so much freedom for possibilities while offering insane levels of destruction.

I've played it for a little while, having picked it up when it first released as early access on steam and its development has been amazing to watch. With entirely new campaigns and massive boosts to the games performance, modding capabilities, and base game throughout.

Originally I was drawn to it after hoping for something to rekindle that feeling of Red Faction: Guerrilla and other destruction focused games, Teardown more than delivered on that front. Pretty much everything can be destroyed in many different ways, structures can even catch fire, fire which then spreads in a realistic fashion, burning buildings down to the ground or making them a burnt out husk.

It really is a game where a building with a locked door can be resolved in many ways: Breaking through a nearby window, using your blowtorch to burn out the lock, or just driving a piece of heavy construction machinery through the wall.


In terms of story and plot, your character operates a small family run business that had previously been struggling to keep the lights on. Until one day you get an email to perform a somewhat "unauthorised demolition" from here things just grow larger, seeing you knocking down towers, stealing priceless art, causing petty vandalism against a wealthy car owner. Eventually you find yourself stealing military weapons, visiting tropical islands, uncovering dastardly plots, and you also get to fight killer robots!


It's safe to say that from my perspective, the game has a wonderful and vibrant modding community, with plenty of active modding support provided by the devs, and a decent API to work with. Modders have made things ranging from advanced weapons to destroy structures, functional portal guns, AC 130 airstrikes, massive amounts of high quality vehicles from movies and real life, entire custom levels and even campaigns that involve high quality detailing and interaction for players to enjoy. There have even been mods made that completely change the nature of the game, such as turning it into a fire fighter sim, a hack and slash shooter game, even old school games. In effect the modding allows people to turn the engine to make whatever they can think of.


The devs simply have been amazing. Really friendly and active with the community on the games discord. Quite often you'll find the devs getting really engaged with whatever creations modders are coming up with, and having very good discussions with the community, clearly laying out plans and often delivering more than we could have hoped for in the community. This is one of those games that have been boosted by having such active and driven devs who genuinely care about the game.




Teardown is a fantastic game filled with plenty of content to keep you busy. It more than is worth its initial cost and the content keeps growing from there.
Personally I've found it to be exactly the game I had wanted for a long time but just hadn't seen delivered anywhere near as well as it has been here. 10/10 would recommend again.

Lack of support for single player and recent attempts to remove tools that allowed singleplayer to retain some promise of being playable in the long term means that there is little purpose in owning the game unless you plan upon playing online only.

This game is easily one of my favorite games right now, the amount of freedom in building ships is great and the feeling of success from one of my builds not sinking instantly is even better. The campaign recently got overhauled and so far has been brilliant fun.

For anybody who likes your space engineers, robocraft or any other vehicle based block building game you will love this, there is a great amount of depth in every build with fully custom engines and cannons to great designs aesthetically. Hopefully with the cannon overhaul it will get even better!