

It is the latter heists-style missions that present a conundrum – once you’ve grabbed your first item an alarm will trigger, giving you a minute or so to reach an exit point on the map. Campaign objectives will often have you levelling a building with limited tools or stealing some booty.

Here, Tuxedo Labs transforms Teardown into a first person, physics-based puzzle game. However, those players wanting more purpose and structure, will likely stick with the campaign. The game’s gallery of destructible sandboxes offer some great freeform fun. In Teardown, I couldn’t help feeling like some sort of explosive lumberjack after hacking away at the base of a lighthouse, then casually stepping back as it toppled into the sea. In video games, there are few things more satisfying than watching a building topple, especially when the demolition physics convey a sense of realism. While your trusty sledgehammer will make easy work smashing through weak material such as wood, you’ll need to employ an extended arsenal of tools and gadgets to wreak the kind of havoc that makes Teardown so attractive. Teardown is expected to remain in Steam early access throughout 2021.Each area is made from thousands of tiny voxels, stitched together to form buildings and terrain, as well as props and interactive items such as vehicles.

Tuxedo Labs has also added a Heist Example map in the built-in mods to get players creating their own missions and has optimized the game's core physics engine to better handle large-scale destruction scenarios. There's also another map that crams in a giant hydraulic press, hamster wheel, a slingshot, and an obstacle course. Other mods let you cause havoc with the Quake II railgun and play a target-shooting minigame using a canon.
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To give you a taste of the spoils, developer Tuxedo Labs has handpicked some of its favorites including "The Junkyard" map (which has already amassed over 12,000 subscribers) that lets you shred cars using a "ShredDozer," along with other hybrid wrecking machines, and perform stunt jumps over stacked vehicles. After releasing level design tools a few months back, the game's latest version brings Steam Workshop support with access to about 100 mods. Over 8,000 concurrent players quickly seized upon the chance to fully destroy its voxel art environments, levelling entire buildings in their wake. Destruction-fueled heist game Teardown barrelled to the top of the Steam game charts when it landed in early access in October.
