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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.
In short, Steam reviewers most often praise “Satisfying destruction physics” (29 of 78 reviews); the most common complaint is “Frustrating vehicle building” (10). What reviewers agree on ↓
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-29 · quoted reviews as of 2026-05-13.
What reviewers agree on
29 of the 78 reviews raise this.
“good game, I personally like creating a portable black hole”
4 of the 78 reviews raise this.
4 of the 78 reviews raise this.
“One of the best physics destruction games! Awesome story too with a kind assistant lady and a Handsome Jack-like CEO giving you missions on different islands. Drive any vehicle ever and destroy it all! Radiangames dude…”
“Overall this is a good game. Fairly price , nice graphic, not that real physics but good enough for game play. I am now with record of 1.2 hour and still expect more time to go with it. Some pros: 1. Game play is a bit…”
4 of the 78 reviews raise this.
“Overall this is a good game. Fairly price , nice graphic, not that real physics but good enough for game play. I am now with record of 1.2 hour and still expect more time to go with it. Some pros: 1. Game play is a bit…”
3 of the 78 reviews raise this.
10 of the 78 reviews raise this · 8 of them still recommend the game.
9 of the 78 reviews raise this · 7 of them still recommend the game.
“Most annoying tutorial system for building vehicles I have ever had the misfortune of playing through. If the voice telling you every single step wasn't enough to make you quit, the controls sure will. At least it's…”
7 of the 78 reviews raise this · 4 of them still recommend the game.
“Very resource-heavy, and unfortunately, not nearly as rewarding.”
“the most unoptimized game i have ever played i get less than 5 fps on a laptop built for gaming would not reccomend if you don't have a custome built gaming pc to use low graghics”
6 of the 78 reviews raise this · 6 of them still recommend the game.
“It's like besieged, but the destruction is more detailed and optimized. Some parts of the campaign are a bit buggy and unoptimized, but it overall provides a fun experience. I will say, the building is slightly…”
“games pretty fun, controls can take some getting used to. i mostly used mods and stuff to fly jets and stuff which dont usually work.”
3 of the 78 reviews raise this · 2 of them still recommend the game.
“Good game, but there are a few things that did annoy me a lot. First, the font. The font it uses by default is truly awful and is impossible to read especially for people with poor vision. There is an option to change…”
Counted across 78 English reviews, sampled to match this game's 91.2% positive rating · as of 2026-05-13
“i can tell this is a good game, i just cant figure anything out bc im lowk stupid”
— a player, Steam review · 2 hrs played“Very fun and satisfying game. Sit down and blow stuff up!”
— a player, Steam review · 23 hrs played“Buy it for the campaign, which is pure joy. It's filled with creative challenges and a massive collection of brilliant machines to pilot. I absolutely recommend buying the game purely for the delight the campaign brings. Build & Destroy mode is a horrible, frustrating mess…”
— a player, Steam review · 14 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live data self-collected from the Steam API · history through 2026-06 via SteamCharts.
Achievement stats
Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-10-26.
Price tracking
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Latest official news
Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.
Instruments of Destruction blasts its way onto consoles
Shadow-dropped at Twitch Galaxies, we’ve announced that our physics-based vehicle destruction game Instruments of Destruction is now available on PS5 and Xbox Series X|S, to join our Steam version! Ge
Patch notes for version 1.14a (minor update)
Some more minor fixes coming over from the console version porting process: Added "EARTHQUAKE!" to the screen when there's an earthquake Fixed a few more 60hz physics issues Fixed a bug where some log
We’re Humbled to be bundled with other physics-based titles!
Hi folks! From September 10th - October 1st, get your hands on a bunch of fun physics-based titles, including Instruments of Destruction, in the ‘Phunky Physics’ bundle available on Humble Bundle.http
1.14 - Balance and Bug Fix Update
A long list of stuff, though much of it gamepad-related in preparation for console release, improved playability of some of the more annoying missions, and made 60hz physics more fair: Fixed Remap Con
Version 1.13 Released! Exit-Freeze Fixed!
It's been a few months since version 1.12 and subsequent patches were released. Today, version 1.13 fixes the biggest issues caused by that update along with a few other minor tweaks/fixes. Let's get
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-13.
| Genres | Action, Casual, Indie, Simulation, Strategy |
| Player tags | Destruction · Physics · Action · Simulation · 3D · Vehicular Combat · Driving · Action-Adventure · Shooter · Arcade · Automobile Sim · Singleplayer (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Steam Achievements · Steam Workshop · Partial Controller Support · Steam Cloud · Includes level editor · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English * , French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Turkish * |
| Achievements | 50 |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS *: Windows 7 or later Processor: 4-core 1.5+GHz processor Memory: 8 GB RAM Graphics: Graphics card with 2GB RAM (Geforce 780 or better) DirectX: Version 11 Storage: 2 GB available space