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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.
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Data as of 2026-05-20.
“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 count fetched 2026-07-11 13:38 UTC · history 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 2026-07-25.
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 2026-05-20.
| 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 |
| Estimated owners | 20,000 – 50,000 (SteamSpy) |
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