Games Like Teardown

Crash through walls and tear down buildings in Instruments of Destruction, a vehicle-action game featuring advanced physics-based demolition. Pilot 130+ unique vehicles across scores of challenge-packed missions or design your own contraptions and wreck highly-interactive sandbox worlds.

Why similar: Destruction 46.8%, Driving 19.6%, Physics 18.7%, Simulation 5.7%, 3D 4.5%

Why You'll Like It: It delivers the same joy of solving problems by physically demolishing structures with weighty machines, collapses, and chain reactions.

Build your own vehicles or download one of the more than 200,000 creations already uploaded to the Workshop and experience the dynamic driving and destruction physics of Brick Rigs!

Why similar: Destruction 38.1%, Sandbox 18.6%, Driving 13.7%, Physics 13.2%, Multiplayer 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: Its blocky destruction, vehicle sandbox, and multiplayer chaos closely echo Teardown's voxel look and freeform experimentation.

A dynamic soft-body physics vehicle simulator capable of doing just about anything.

Why similar: Destruction 32.8%, Driving 18.2%, Physics 13.7%, Sandbox 12.5%, Realistic 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: If your favorite part of Teardown is realistic physical destruction, BeamNG.drive offers some of the most convincing crash and damage simulation on Steam.

Besiege is a physics building game about constructing medieval machines to annihilate armies, obliterate castles and overcome challenging obstacles. Conquer the campaign or skirmish with friends in Multiplayer!

Why similar: Destruction 40.8%, Sandbox 18.5%, Physics 16.9%, Multiplayer 8.7%, Simulation 5.6%

Why You'll Like It: Like Teardown's more engineering-minded missions, it is all about building a clever machine and using physics to tear targets apart.

Enter the creative paradise of Scrap Mechanic! Build fantastic machines, go on adventures with your friends and defend against waves of evil Farmbots in this imaginative multiplayer survival sandbox. With Scrap Mechanic’s powerful creation tools you can engineer your own adventures!

Why similar: Sandbox 26.9%, Physics 23.3%, Multiplayer 13.8%, Co-op 12%, Online Co-Op 7%

Why You'll Like It: The co-op physics sandbox and homemade contraptions scratch the same creative make-your-own-solution itch.

Equipped with cutting-edge salvaging tech, carve & slice spaceships to recover valuable materials. Upgrade your gear to take on more lucrative contracts and pay your billion credits debt to LYNX Corp!

Why similar: Destruction 42.7%, Physics 19.6%, Sandbox 17.5%, Simulation 6.9%, First-Person 5.8%

Why You'll Like It: It swaps heists for salvage, but the first-person gameplay is similarly about planning cuts, managing systems, and dismantling structures piece by piece.

Red Faction: Guerrilla re-defines the limits of destruction-based game-play with a huge open-world, fast-paced guerrilla-style combat, and true physics-based destruction.

Why similar: Destruction 61.3%, Physics 15.9%, Sandbox 11.4%, Multiplayer 5.7%, Action 2.5%

Why You'll Like It: Few games match its satisfaction of opening your own paths with hammers and explosives through fully destructible buildings.

Wreckfest is a demolition derby themed racing game with soft-body damage modeling, sophisticated driving dynamics and in-depth vehicle upgrading, featuring both demolition derbies and more traditional track races. It’s all about fun, breakneck racing and over-the-top crashes.

Why similar: Destruction 47.7%, Driving 16.2%, Physics 12.4%, Multiplayer 7.6%, Simulation 4.6%

Why You'll Like It: While it is structured around racing, the crunchy vehicle damage and collision physics deliver a similarly satisfying destructive payoff.

Space Engineers is a sandbox engineering game where you design and build ships, stations, and planetary bases in a fully destructible environment. Explore planets and space, mine resources, survive hazards, and engage in combat alone or with friends in Creative or Survival modes.

Why similar: Sandbox 23.6%, Physics 21.6%, Co-op 16.5%, Realistic 12.6%, Multiplayer 12.3%

Why You'll Like It: Its voxel worlds let you drill, build, and destroy your way through problems in a highly systemic sandbox.

7 Days to Die is an open-world game that is a unique combination of first-person shooter, survival horror, tower defense, and role-playing games. Play the definitive zombie survival sandbox RPG that came first. Navezgane awaits!

Why similar: Voxel 42.5% ★, Sandbox 19.9%, Online Co-Op 15.8%, Multiplayer 13.2%, Simulation 5.6%

Why You'll Like It: This first-person voxel sandbox lets you reshape and demolish the world to build routes, traps, and strongholds, much like Teardown on a survival scale.

Build the ultimate vehicle and explore a vast open world filled with challenges and adventure. Play solo or team up with friends in multiplayer to conquer the toughest obstacles. With a thrilling campaign mode and endless creative possibilities, Trailmakers is the ultimate sandbox for adventurers.

Why similar: Co-op Campaign 40.8% ★, Online Co-Op 16.6%, Sandbox 14.8%, Physics 13.7%, Multiplayer 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses more on vehicle creation, but the freedom to prototype bizarre solutions and break things with physics feels very adjacent to Teardown.

FIREWORKS MANIA is a small casual explosive simulator game where you play around with fireworks, create beautiful firework shows or just blow stuff up.

Why similar: Destruction 28.5%, Sandbox 22%, Physics 16.7%, Multiplayer 11.2%, First-Person 6.6%

Why You'll Like It: For players who mainly want a toybox of explosions and emergent physics chaos, it offers a similarly relaxed demolition sandbox.

ABRISS is an atmospheric physics-destruction building game.Build structures from parts to let them crash into your targets. Unlock new parts, destroy more, witness entropy at its worst in digital-brutalist cityscapes. Build to destroy.

Why similar: Destruction 40.5%, Sandbox 17.3%, Physics 16.5%, Realistic 8.8%, Puzzle 6%

Why You'll Like It: It captures Teardown's design-the-perfect-collapse side by turning structural destruction into a stylish physics puzzle.

Deep Rock Galactic is a 1-4 player co-op FPS featuring dwarven space miners, procedurally-generated destructible environments, and endless hordes of alien monsters. Explore cave systems, mine for minerals, and work together to survive!

Why similar: Co-op 66.4%, First-Person 24.6%, Action 9%

Why You'll Like It: Its fully destructible cave systems give you that same thrill of carving unexpected paths through levels with your tools.

Steal everything. Even the people. The Break-In lets you take whatever you want, from TVs to fridges to toilets. And all in 1-4 player co-op, VR and non VR. Select your getaway vehicle, anything from a bicycle to a stolen police van, and load up with gear like hammers and rocket boosters, and steal.

Why similar: Heist 36.2% ★, Co-op Campaign 14.5% ★, Online Co-Op 11.4%, Physics 10.3%, Multiplayer 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: It mirrors Teardown's burglary-planning fantasy by letting you case locations, coordinate with friends, and improvise your entry and escape.

THE FINALS is the world’s first Dynamism Shooter, a free-to-play, fast-paced, physics-driven, first-person shooter set on the stage of the biggest Gameshow of the future! Fight for Fans and fortune in fully-destructible, virtual Arenas that guarantee no two rounds will ever play the same!

Why similar: Destruction 54.5%, Online Co-Op 10.6%, Co-op 10%, Multiplayer 9%, Realistic 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: It trades sandbox play for competitive matches, but its standout feature is still using large-scale environmental destruction tactically in first person.

Your company is going global. Use big machines to demolish huge buildings or go close and personal and use your hammer. Buy land properties, upgrade your machines and hire workers in different parts of the world.

Why similar: Destruction 44.6%, Simulation 11.4%, Multiplayer 10.3%, Physics 7.5%, Driving 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: This is a straightforward destruction sim built around knocking down structures with tools, vehicles, and explosives.

GoreBox is a chaotic physics-driven sandbox where creativity meets destruction. Use the Reality Crusher to spawn, manipulate, and obliterate anything. Customize, battle with friends, roleplay, or face devious creatures. In this world, your imagination rules—and chaos is your playground!

Why similar: Voxel 33.1% ★, Sandbox 29.1%, Physics 22.7%, First-Person 7.8%, 3D 4.6%

Why You'll Like It: This first-person sandbox emphasizes freeform physics chaos, spawned objects, and destructive experimentation in a way Teardown fans may appreciate.

Noita is a magical action roguelite set in a world where every pixel is physically simulated. Fight, explore, melt, burn, freeze and evaporate your way through the procedurally generated world using spells you've created yourself.

Why similar: Physics 48.3%, Sandbox 40.3%, Action 5.7%, Indie 5.7%

Why You'll Like It: The pixel-based world is as reactive and destructible as Teardown's voxels, rewarding experimentation, improvisation, and accidental chaos.

Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.

Why similar: Destruction 37.2%, Sandbox 32.3%, Physics 21.8%, Simulation 4.3%, Singleplayer 2%

Why You'll Like It: Though 2D and far sillier, it is another pure sandbox for setting up physics contraptions, destruction, and emergent experiments.

Over 1000 unique components allow you to build and command voxel vehicles from the deep ocean to outer space! Forge strategies, allegiances and fleets strong enough to destroy eight deadly factions of the planet and reign supreme. A genre-defying mashup of simulation, building, RTS and RPG.

Why similar: Voxel 30.3% ★, Co-op Campaign 25.3% ★, Sandbox 17.2%, Physics 15.1%, Multiplayer 8%

Why You'll Like It: Its appeal lies in engineering custom machines and watching them destroy opponents through detailed physics systems.

Join a world where you design, create and pilot your own air sea rescue service. Release your inner hero as you battle fierce storms out at sea to rescue those in need.

Why similar: Sandbox 50.1%, Physics 36%, First-Person 13.9%

Why You'll Like It: Its physics-heavy sandbox and custom vehicles reward the same experimental mindset, even if the focus is rescue rather than demolition.

As the leader of a company specialized in restoring sites devastated by natural disasters, use your construction machinery to restart the local industry. Clear debris and faulty equipment, rebuild roads and bridges damaged by weather, and much more!

Why similar: Destruction 26.9%, Driving 18.7%, Physics 14.3%, Online Co-Op 11.4%, Co-op 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: Like Teardown, it turns heavy vehicles and terrain interaction into the core toy, though here the focus is reconstruction rather than smashing.

TerraTech is an open-world, sandbox adventure game, where you design and build your own creations through a mix of crafting, combat and discovery. Design vehicles from a huge library of blocks. Scavenge, craft and buy new parts to survive and become the ultimate planetary prospector.

Why similar: Sandbox 43.9%, Multiplayer 19.1%, Physics 15.4%, Online Co-Op 11.7%, Action 4.7%

Why You'll Like It: Building modular vehicles and testing them in a destructible sandbox gives it a similar creative loop of construction, action, and iteration.

Voxel Turf is a block based urban sandbox. Build cities, blow up buildings, complete missions or fight for territory. Build a real estate empire, or perhaps just drive around and blow stuff up. Its your choice!

Why similar: Voxel 48.7% ★, Sandbox 27.1%, Simulation 8.6%, Multiplayer 7.4%, Action 4.7%

Why You'll Like It: Its voxel world, crime theme, and systemic sandbox design make it a neat fit for players who enjoy Teardown's blocky style and freedom.

Medieval Engineers is a sandbox game about engineering, construction and the maintenance of architectural works and mechanical equipment using medieval technology. Players build castles; construct mechanical devices and underground mining. There is an entire planet to explore!

Why similar: Destruction 34.8%, Sandbox 19.7%, Physics 15.9%, Multiplayer 7.6%, Voxel 7.1% ★

Why You'll Like It: Its voxel building and destruction systems make it one of the closer matches for Teardown's change-the-environment sandbox feel.

Interact with strange new worlds in a unique and tactile way, molding the environment itself as if it were clay in your hands. Build your base, master resource management, automate your production lines, and more as you unravel the mysteries of the universe, alone or with friends.

Why similar: Sandbox 36.5%, Multiplayer 27.2%, Co-op 26.7%, Simulation 5.2%, Indie 2.4%

Why You'll Like It: Its co-op sandbox lets you deform terrain anywhere, creating tunnels, shortcuts, and custom spaces in a way Teardown players will immediately recognize.

Voxel Project offers an immersive sandbox experience set in a fully destructible voxel environment. Explore a dynamic world teeming with vehicles, dynamic fire mechanics, enemy NPCs, voxel gore, weapon customization, and a bunch of additional features to discover.

Why similar: Destruction 23.9%, Voxel 20.5% ★, Sandbox 11.2%, Driving 10.8%, Physics 8.5%

Hydroneer is a mining and base building sandbox. Dig for gold and other resources to turn a profit and enhance your mining operation. Build a base of operations, forge weapons, go fishing, and dig deep!

Why similar: Sandbox 35.9%, Co-op 25.2%, Multiplayer 17.4%, Simulation 8.8%, First-Person 6.3%

Why You'll Like It: The dig-anywhere terrain manipulation and sandbox progression appeal if your favorite part of Teardown is reshaping the world itself.

Maximum Override is a chaotic city destruction game where the machines come alive. Wreak havoc in a fully destructible randomly generated city with anything you can find.

Why similar: Destruction 65.7%, Sandbox 16.9%, Simulation 8.3%, Action 5.1%, Indie 4%

Why You'll Like It: Possessing vehicles and using them to flatten a city makes it a lightweight but very direct pick for pure destruction-sandbox fun.

With over 1000 km² of complete freedom from sky to seabed, Rico Rodriguez returns to unleash chaos in the most creative and explosive ways imaginable.

Why similar: Destruction 51.1%, Sandbox 16.5%, Multiplayer 10.6%, Physics 10.3%, Co-op 5%

Why You'll Like It: Its sandbox missions encourage the same playful approach of chaining explosives, vehicles, and environmental chaos to solve objectives.

Become a ragdoll and create your own environments in Sandbox Mode, explore worlds created by others, or just flop around your destructible sets! Fun with Ragdolls®: The Game lets you enjoy everything you love about ragdolls!

Why similar: Sandbox 30.5%, Physics 27.3%, Destruction 15.8%, Simulation 7.4%, Multiplayer 7.3%

Explore a world of creative building, interactive machines, and gears - lots of gears. Build all things mechanical: cars, trucks, cranes, tanks, gearboxes, engines, clocks, anything you can think of. Test your creations to destruction in challenging scenarios, and share them in the workshop!

Why similar: Destruction 32.3%, Sandbox 17.1%, Physics 16.4%, Driving 15.2%, Simulation 5.1%

Crazy physics and high-speed races! Craft vehicles cleverly by combining building blocks and mechanical parts to create powerful drivetrains. Unlock new parts, race for the gold, and challenge your friends in multiplayer.

Why similar: Destruction 35.4%, Driving 18.9%, Physics 17.2%, Multiplayer 9.9%, Realistic 5.1%

A physics sandbox game for people who like to play with digital toys. Create, control toys and define your goals.

Why similar: Destruction 47.3%, Sandbox 23.3%, Physics 20.5%, Simulation 6.8%, Singleplayer 2%

Multiplayer sandbox with destructible environment. Destroy different maps, build your own, and play with your friends and other people online

Why similar: Destruction 24.7%, Voxel 24.1% ★, Sandbox 16.2%, Realistic 6%, Online Co-Op 5.6%

Wobbly Life is a vibrant open-world physics sandbox. Play with your friends online or in local co-op, with exciting jobs, mini games and wacky story missions. Earn cash to spend in the world on clothes, vehicles and houses. There is a whole Wobbly World out there to explore!

Why similar: Sandbox 26.4%, Co-op 16.6%, Physics 16.3%, Multiplayer 14.9%, Online Co-Op 11.3%

You’re out of jail, but the debt isn’t gone. Sneak, steal, and break into houses solo or in 4-player co-op. Use lockpicks, sleeping gas, and brute force to complete jobs, outsmart security, and make enough money before time runs out. Will you pay back what you owe, or lose everything?

Why similar: Heist 32.8% ★, Co-op Campaign 19% ★, Online Co-Op 10.9%, Multiplayer 9.3%, Driving 7.9%

Create & destroy on an unimaginable scale with a realistic physics-based space simulator. Explore the beauty of our universe and the fragility of our planet. Use science to bend the laws of gravity, collide planets, boil away oceans, fire epic space lasers, and customize your universe.

Why similar: Destruction 35.6%, Sandbox 26.5%, Physics 20.4%, Realistic 7.8%, Simulation 7%

Ready for mayhem? Wreckfest is back, offering the best in full-contact racing with unrivaled destruction! Witness head-to-head battles as you tear apart rival vehicles bit by bit. Powered by the enhanced physics engine, developed by the creators of Wreckfest & FlatOut!

Why similar: Destruction 40.8%, Driving 15.1%, Physics 10.3%, Realistic 8.8%, Multiplayer 8.5%

Turbo Dismount 2 is a comedy physics racing sandbox with Mr. Dismount and his friends. It is the officially ambitious sequel to the wildly popular, immensely successful, world-renowned entertainment juggernaut - Turbo Dismount.

Why similar: Destruction 44.8%, Sandbox 19.8%, Physics 9.6%, Simulation 6.4%, Puzzle 6.1%

Disassembly and destruction physics sandbox simulator. Detailed models of objects and vehicles and their internal parts. Disassemble objects successfully to unlock weapons mode and destruction. Fight evil mannequins with everything you got in physical combat!

Why similar: Destruction 35%, Sandbox 14.1%, Physics 14.1%, Driving 10.9%, Realistic 8.7%

Fight upon the Ravenfield together with your Blue allies! Take down those pesky Reds using helicopters, tanks, guns, and active ragdoll physics!

Why similar: Sandbox 39.5%, Physics 18.8%, First-Person 14.5%, Action 6.5%, Simulation 6.4%

Turbo Dismount is a kinetic tragedy about Mr. Dismount and the cars who love him. It is the official sequel to the wildly popular and immensely successful personal impact simulator - Stair Dismount.

Why similar: Destruction 39.1%, Physics 18.4%, Driving 14.3%, Sandbox 13.9%, Simulation 6.4%

A sandbox game that enables players to watch or take part in a warzone. Players will have access to a variety of tools and features that give them access to customize and change the battlefield however they like.

Why similar: Sandbox 38.7%, Physics 23.5%, Destruction 18.8%, Realistic 12.3%, Action 2.9%

Deconstruction Simulator is the ultimate demolition simulator, offering you complete freedom of action and a wide array of contracts to complete. Get ready for spectacular destruction.

Why similar: Destruction 45.4%, Sandbox 17.4%, Realistic 10.2%, Physics 8.6%, First-Person 6.6%

MudRunner is the ultimate off-road experience putting the players in the driver seat and dares them to take charge of incredible all-terrain vehicles, venturing across extreme Siberian landscapes with only a map and compass as guides!

Why similar: Mod 22.2% ★, Driving 21.3%, Physics 11.1%, Multiplayer 10.1%, Co-op 7.8%

Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.

Why similar: Sandbox 24.2%, Physics 17.1%, Online Co-Op 12.3%, Co-op 11.7%, Multiplayer 9.9%

Brickadia is a next-generation brick building sandbox that gives you the tools to create and play, your way. Build massive worlds, invent cool contraptions, and play in them however you like - all with your friends!

Why similar: Sandbox 28%, Physics 25.7%, Multiplayer 13.3%, Online Co-Op 10.4%, Co-op 9.9%

One-armed robber is a chaotic first-person heist game that centers around a uniquely challenging premise. Players take the role of a determined robber equipped with only one arm, tasked with pulling off daring heists on banks, shops, and various establishments.

Why similar: Heist 45.5% ★, Multiplayer 16.3%, Co-op 14%, Physics 7.3%, First-Person 5%

Commander in the ranks. Soldier at heart. Choose a faction and deploy and command your army into massive physics-driven WWII battles to the last man standing. Destroy everything on sight with an insane amount of units that will behave tactically.

Why similar: Sandbox 37.2%, Simulation 15.5%, Physics 15.1%, Realistic 8.4%, Action 7%

Paint the Town Red is a chaotic first person melee combat game set in different locations and time periods. The voxel-based enemies can be punched, bashed, kicked, stabbed and sliced completely dynamically using almost anything that isn't nailed down.

Why similar: Voxel 42.3% ★, Physics 22.3%, Multiplayer 15.2%, First-Person 10.4%, Action 5.2%

"Falling sand" style particle sandbox, now with circuits and stickmen!

Why similar: Destruction 43.4%, Sandbox 25.8%, Physics 20.2%, Simulation 6.6%, Indie 2.7%

Crime Simulator: Playgrounds is a short, chaotic, and hilarious entry in the Crime Simulator franchise. Throw hammers, spray pepper gas, and cause mayhem solo or with up to 4 players. Take over hideouts, complete absurd missions, and unleash destruction with the wildest weapons. No rules—just fun!

Why similar: Heist 31.9% ★, Co-op Campaign 20.3% ★, Driving 10.1%, Online Co-Op 9.6%, Co-op 8.7%

Use your godly powers to craft amazing pixel worlds or destroy the universe! Play with physics, over 200 elements and controllable heroes. Make your own games or levels, and then share your creations online. There are no limits to your creativity and imagination!

Why similar: Sandbox 35.8%, Destruction 30.9%, Physics 13.9%, Multiplayer 7.6%, Simulation 6.6%

My Summer Car is the ultimate car owning, building, fixing, tuning, maintenance AND permadeath life survival simulator. You start the game with hundreds of loose parts and assemble both car and engine.

Why similar: Driving 38.1%, Sandbox 16.3%, Realistic 14.5%, Simulation 10.3%, First-Person 9.2%

Goat Simulator is the latest in high-tech Goat Simulation technology.

Why similar: Destruction 37.1%, Sandbox 21.1%, Physics 18.5%, Simulation 11.9%, Co-op 4.6%

Realistic Ragdoll Sandbox is an immersive game that stands out for its realistic ragdoll physics, which together with various creation and damage tools, provides the player with a mix of realism and fun.

Why similar: Sandbox 44.2%, Physics 32.6%, Simulation 11%, 3D 6.2%, Action 2.7%

Start up the demolition excavator and use realistic tools to take down the buildings! This 3D demolition simulation lets you take care of destruction, cleanup and recycling. Work alone or in a team of up to 4 players and master the challenges in different jobs.

Why similar: Destruction 35.5%, Physics 13.8%, Online Co-Op 12.4%, Multiplayer 9%, Driving 8.4%

Build physically simulated rovers to transport awkwardly shaped cargo across the rugged terrain of Mars. Earn funds, unlock new parts, and use your ingenuity to help the Martians establish a new home. Playable solo or in online co-op!

Why similar: Co-op 26.7%, Sandbox 24.6%, Physics 22.4%, 3D 9.2%, Puzzle 8.1%