Games like Instruments of Destruction
If Instruments of Destruction is your kind of game, the closest matches are Wreckfest, TRAIL OUT and FlatOut — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, challenging and immersive. 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 →Instruments of Destruction is a physics-based vehicle action-simulation released in 2024 by Radiangames and published by Secret Mode. The game combines campaign missions with sandbox construction, offering players over 130 pre-built vehicles alongside a robust building system featuring logic blocks, magnets, and rope mechanics to construct complex automated contraptions. Reviewers describe the experience as both immersive and whimsical, with players highlighting how the freedom to build and the satisfying physics-based destruction create engaging gameplay. Critics also note the title carries a nostalgic 90s PC gaming atmosphere. Holding a 92% positive rating from 1059 Steam reviews, the game is marked playable on Steam Deck and retails for $19.99.
About Instruments of Destruction: 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.
Players who liked Instruments of Destruction also play
Steam players who put hours into Instruments of Destruction 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.
Wreckfest
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Instruments of Destruction.
Top pick for Instruments of Destruction fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Instruments of Destruction.
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.
TRAIL OUT
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Instruments of Destruction fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Instruments of Destruction.
Welcome to the festival of explosive races, TRAIL OUT! Reckless racing around the world! Crashes, explosions, destruction, and screaming drivers!
FlatOut
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Instruments of Destruction fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Simulation with Instruments of Destruction.
Ram through pile-ups and smash through your windshield as you push racing to the edge! FlatOut™ delivers more heart-stopping thrills than any sane driver can handle!
Derby: Extreme Racing
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Ranked #4 for Instruments of Destruction fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Simulation with Instruments of Destruction.
Boost your powerful car and crush all your rivals on the way to victory!
CHARGED: RC Racing
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Ranked #5 for Instruments of Destruction fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Instruments of Destruction.
CHARGED: RC Racing is all about speed and making use of random items. Drive RC Cars in different locations and use items to defeat your opponents.
Battle Riders
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Instruments of Destruction fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Instruments of Destruction.
Battle your way to first place in this engaging combat racing game. It offers adrenaline pumping, high-octane action and a lot of fun!
CyberRush
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Instruments of Destruction fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Instruments of Destruction.
CyberRush offers a mix of roguelike cyberpunk streets and a series of handcrafted levels with unique challenges. Outpace the police, weave through obstacles and missile showers, have epic boss battles, and experience the rush in this intense rage-driving adventure. Ready, Set, CyberRush!
KILLDOZER
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Instruments of Destruction fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Instruments of Destruction.
Take command of your custom-built beast in KILLDOZER. Unleash instinctive combat in a fully destructible world where chaos reigns. Plan your assault, obliterate every obstacle, and shatter the limits of mayhem. Get. Your. Revenge.
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Trailmakers
WHY THIS
Shares campaign missions and an immersive mood with Instruments of Destruction.
Reviewers of Instruments of Destruction cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Instruments of Destruction.
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.
Red Faction Guerrilla Re-Mars-tered
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Instruments of Destruction cross-mention this title as a similar play.
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.
Teardown
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Instruments of Destruction cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Strategy with Instruments of Destruction.
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.
Besiege
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Instruments of Destruction.
Reviewers of Instruments of Destruction cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Simulation with Instruments of Destruction.
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!
Core-Blast
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Instruments of Destruction cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Casual with Instruments of Destruction.
Find core of the same type that are close to each other and blast them.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Instruments of Destruction at current Steam store prices.
Terraria
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Instruments of Destruction on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Instruments of Destruction.
Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Instruments of Destruction on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Instruments of Destruction.
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.
Lethal Company
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Instruments of Destruction on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Instruments of Destruction.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
Left 4 Dead 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Instruments of Destruction on Steam right now. Shares Action with Instruments of Destruction.
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.
People Playground
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Instruments of Destruction on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Instruments of Destruction.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Fallout: New Vegas
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Instruments of Destruction on Steam right now. Shares Action with Instruments of Destruction.
Welcome to Vegas. New Vegas. Enjoy your stay!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
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 Instruments of Destruction.
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.
STRAFTAT
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Instruments of Destruction.
STRAFTAT is a 1v1/2v2 ONLINE first person SHOOTER with quick rounds in over 350 MAPS ; Including all WEAPONS, proximity chat and 4 players FFA.
Iron Snout
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Instruments of Destruction.
Iron Snout is a fast, colorful and brutal fighting game in which you will be helping a piglet fight for its life against hordes of wolves.
UNBEATABLE [white label]
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Instruments of Destruction.
A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Instruments of Destruction.
Train a commoner to become the greatest archer in this short incremental game! Increase your stats, gather wealth from quests, buy upgrades, and infuse your arrows with magic.
The Lab
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!
DORONKO WANKO
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Simulation with Instruments of Destruction.
『DORONKO WANKO』 is a DORONKO Action Game. In this game, You can become a cute, innocent Pomeranian, make your master's home messy and dirty. "Will the master be angry with me?" Don't worry. Because you are a sweet doggie.
Floating Point
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Instruments of Destruction.
Floating Point is a peaceful, free game about using a grappling hook to swing yourself gracefully through randomly generated spaces. The only objective is to collect points, and the only thing that increases your points is swinging swiftly, smoothly and elegantly without hitting anything.
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More from Radiangames
Other recommendable Steam games by Radiangames, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Inferno 2
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Instruments of Destruction.
Another title from Radiangames, the studio behind Instruments of Destruction. Shares Action and Indie with Instruments of Destruction.
Inferno 2 is an intense, atmospheric twin-stick adventure-shooter. Blast through 80+ levels full of enemies and secrets while upgrading your ship the way you want.
Devastator
WHY THIS
Another title from Radiangames, the studio behind Instruments of Destruction. Shares Action with Instruments of Destruction.
Devastator is a retro-modern arcade twin-stick shooter. Featuring spectacular, fluid visuals (with 4k and 120hz+ support), heart-pounding music and sound, and intuitive, intense, and varied gameplay, Devastator is the ultimate twin-stick shooter for people who love twin-stick shooters!
Rhythm Storm
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Instruments of Destruction.
Another title from Radiangames, the studio behind Instruments of Destruction. Shares Action with Instruments of Destruction.
Rhythm Storm is a roguelike bullet heaven with stunning vector graphics, rhythmic action, and overwhelming swarms of enemies. Your vehicle aims and fires freely while everything else dances and moves to the beat in this spectacular audio-visual experience.
Fireball 2
WHY THIS
Another title from Radiangames, the studio behind Instruments of Destruction. Shares Action with Instruments of Destruction.
Fireball 2 is an elegant and satisfying arcade survival game. Dodge and boost your way through a massive flood of enemies. Lure them into range and detonate a devastating bomb! Features infinite waves, two modes and difficulties, local co-op, dazzling visuals, and an epic soundscape.
Speed Demons 2
WHY THIS
Another title from Radiangames, the studio behind Instruments of Destruction.
Speed Demons 2 is an arcade highway racing game featuring explosive action, breakneck speeds, and very intense TRAFFIC. With a pulse-pounding soundtrack, unique side-scrolling perspectives, and TONS of varied modes, vehicles, and races, Speed Demons 2 is a thrilling blend of speed and chaos.
Frequently asked about Instruments of Destruction
- Does Instruments of Destruction run on Steam Deck?
- Instruments of Destruction is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does Instruments of Destruction cost?
- Instruments of Destruction is listed on Steam at 19.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Instruments of Destruction?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Instruments of Destruction are Wreckfest, TRAIL OUT, FlatOut.
- Who developed Instruments of Destruction?
- Instruments of Destruction was developed by Radiangames and published by Secret Mode.
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