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Instruments of Destruction

Xbox Series X|S, PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 5 • 2024

Should you play it?

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 works

  • Satisfying and detailed destruction physics
  • Extensive vehicle building and customization
  • Smooth performance and polished visuals
  • Active developer engagement and updates
  • Good replayability with sandbox and challenges

Things to keep in mind

  • Limited mission variety and short campaign
  • Lack of vehicle damage reduces challenge
  • Some ui and control clunkiness especially with gamepads
  • Maps can feel sparse and small
  • No multiplayer or cooperative modes

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • Demolish & Build 3: Excavator Playground

  • ABRISS - build to destroy

  • Teardown

  • Demolition Company Gold Edition

  • Sniper Ghost Warrior Contracts

  • TerraTech Legion

Less violent

Games that feels like Instruments of Destruction but with less combat and destruction

  • Super Loco World - Cozy Train Automation

  • Before We Leave

  • Factory Town

  • Blossom: The Seed of Life

  • Outpath

  • ShantyTown

More fantastical

Games that feels like Instruments of Destruction but with more imaginative fiction

  • The Falconeer: Revolution Remaster

  • Bulwark: Falconeer Chronicles

  • Asterix & Obelix XXL: Romastered

  • ADACA

  • 3030 Deathwar Redux - A Space Odyssey

  • MarZ: Tactical Base Defense

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Instruments of Destruction: Broadly representative of its motivational profile, with a few distinct shifts. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Violence, Fantasy, Story, Thrill. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Violence, Thrill, Expression.

Last update: 03/08/2026