Games like Teardown
If Teardown is your kind of game, the closest matches are Storm Chasers, Voxel Project VR and Building Destruction — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its beautiful destruction, endless creative possibilities and chill. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →Teardown is a physics-driven simulation and action game developed by Tuxedo Labs that released in 2022. The game takes place in a destructible voxel world where environmental manipulation is central to gameplay, combining sandbox freedom with heist-style objectives. Players demolish structures using vehicles or explosives to create paths and shortcuts through levels. The physics simulation underpins all interactions, while mod support extends replayability. Reviewers highlight the beautiful destruction and endless creative possibilities as core appeals, with players describing the experience as both chill and relaxing. The game supports singleplayer and multiplayer modes for up to 12 players. Priced at $29.99, it holds a 96% positive rating from over 73,000 Steam reviews and is verified for Steam Deck play.
About Teardown: Prepare the perfect heist in a fully destructible, simulated voxel world. Tear down walls with vehicles or use explosives to create your own shortcuts. Shape the environment to your advantage in the most creative ways you can imagine. Play solo or with up to 12 players in multiplayer.
Players who liked Teardown also play
Steam players who put hours into Teardown also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.
Storm Chasers
WHY THIS
Top pick for Teardown fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Teardown.
Be one of those intrepid storm chasers in this online multiplayer video game. Your goal is to shoot the best twisters pictures without dying because of powerful winds and flying debris. Feel the challenge of correctly forecasting and intercepting storms with the optimal vantage points before other players.
Voxel Project VR
WHY THIS
Shares physics simulation, mod support and a relaxing mood with Teardown.
Second-strongest match for Teardown fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Teardown.
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.
Building Destruction
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Teardown fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Teardown.
Multiplayer sandbox with destructible environment. Destroy different maps, build your own, and play with your friends and other people online
BeamNG.drive
WHY THIS
Shares mod support with Teardown.
Ranked #4 for Teardown fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Teardown.
A dynamic soft-body physics vehicle simulator capable of doing just about anything.
Brick Rigs
WHY THIS
Shares physics simulation with Teardown.
Ranked #5 for Teardown fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Teardown.
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!
Medieval Engineers
WHY THIS
Shares mod support with Teardown.
Ranked #6 for Teardown fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Teardown.
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!
Wreckfest
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Teardown fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Teardown.
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.
Flashing Lights - Police, Firefighting, Emergency Services (EMS) Simulator
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Teardown fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Teardown.
Play solo or in up to 10-player multiplayer co-op! Flashing Lights is an open world police, firefighting and EMS simulator game with plenty of opportunity for role-play or more relaxed fun with friends. Become the law or save lives! Discover leagues of player-created mods!
Reviewers mention these as similar to Teardown
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Minecraft: Story Mode - A Telltale Games Series
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Teardown cross-mention this title as a similar play.
Episode 1 is now FREE - for a limited time! In Minecraft: Story Mode, playing as either a male or female hero named 'Jesse,' you’ll embark on a perilous adventure across the Overworld, through the Nether, to the End, and beyond.
Totally Accurate Battle Simulator
WHY THIS
Shares physics simulation and mod support with Teardown.
Reviewers of Teardown cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Teardown.
Be the leader of wobblers from ancient lands, spooky places, and fantasy worlds. Watch them fight in simulations made with the wobbliest physics system ever created, make your own wobblers in the unit creator and send your army off to fight your friends in multiplayer.
Instruments of Destruction
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Teardown cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Strategy with 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.
BeamNG.drive
WHY THIS
Shares mod support with Teardown.
Reviewers of Teardown cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Simulation with Teardown.
A dynamic soft-body physics vehicle simulator capable of doing just about anything.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Shares mod support with Teardown.
Reviewers of Teardown cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Simulation with Teardown.
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.
Scrap Mechanic
WHY THIS
Shares mod support with Teardown.
Reviewers of Teardown cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Teardown.
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!
Ultimate Epic Battle Simulator
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Teardown cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Strategy with Teardown.
Here is a sandbox like no other. Create massive battles with absolutely no limits. Want to see 10,000 chickens fight an army of Romans?? Sure, why not. Want to see a company of WW2 U.S soldiers fight 11,000 Medieval soldiers?? There are simply no limits to the carnage you can achieve in UEBS.
DYSMANTLE
WHY THIS
Shares a chill mood with Teardown.
Reviewers of Teardown cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Teardown.
Ascend from your shelter. Ruin everything. Escape the wretched island. ⚔️🔨🎣🌱🌵🍰 Explore. Fight. Level up. Survive. Gather. Craft. Harvest. Hunt. Build. Farm. Solve puzzles. Fish. Cook. Live. Enjoy the bittersweet post-apocalypse.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Teardown at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Shares mod support with Teardown.
Priced ~83% under Teardown on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Teardown.
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.
Stardew Valley
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Teardown on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Teardown.
You've inherited your grandfather's old farm plot in Stardew Valley. Armed with hand-me-down tools and a few coins, you set out to begin your new life. Can you learn to live off the land and turn these overgrown fields into a thriving home?
Lethal Company
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Teardown on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Teardown.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
Left 4 Dead 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Teardown on Steam right now. Shares Action with Teardown.
Set in the zombie apocalypse, Left 4 Dead 2 is a co-operative action horror FPS takes you and your friends through the cities, swamps and cemeteries of the Deep South, from Savannah to New Orleans across five expansive campaigns.
Bloons TD 6
WHY THIS
Priced ~53% under Teardown on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Teardown.
The Bloons are back and better than ever! Get ready for a massive 3D tower defense game designed to give you hours and hours of the best strategy gaming available.
Hollow Knight
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Teardown on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Teardown.
Forge your own path in Hollow Knight! An epic action adventure through a vast ruined kingdom of insects and heroes. Explore twisting caverns, battle tainted creatures and befriend bizarre bugs, all in a classic, hand-drawn 2D style.
People Playground
WHY THIS
Shares mod support with Teardown.
Priced ~67% under Teardown on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Teardown.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Teardown.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Teardown.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Teardown.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Teardown.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Teardown.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive (CS:GO) expands upon the team-based action gameplay that it pioneered when it was launched over 2 decades ago. CS:GO features new maps, characters, weapons, and game modes, and delivers updated versions of the classic CS content (de_dust2, etc.).
The Expendabros
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Teardown.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
Steam Engine Simulator
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Teardown.
The Steam Engine Simulator shown on AngeTheGreat's YouTube channel.
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Frequently asked about Teardown
- Is Teardown verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — Teardown is Steam Deck Verified, meaning Valve has confirmed it runs well on the Deck with full controller, text legibility, and default configuration support.
- How much does Teardown cost?
- Teardown is listed on Steam at 29.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Teardown have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Teardown supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online PvP, Online Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Teardown?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Teardown are Storm Chasers, Voxel Project VR, Building Destruction.
- Who developed Teardown?
- Teardown was developed by Tuxedo Labs.
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