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Pilot physics-driven demolition vehicles through destruction missions, then build your own machines and wreck sandbox worlds.
Released 10 May 2024
Tear Down Buildings
Pilot Wrecking Machines
Trigger Chain Reactions
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.
Developed by Radiangames · Published by Secret Mode
You join Sharpe Industries as a test pilot, taking purpose-built machines—from rocket-launching tanks to flying bulldozers—to remote outposts where structures are targets for demolition. Buildings break apart piece by piece, and impacts and explosions can set off chain reactions.
The main campaign offers more than 50 missions with demolition objectives, using a large selection of vehicles and maps. Earn up to three stars per mission to unlock content, then revisit completed levels in challenge mode with new parameters and scoring goals.
In Sandbox mode, choose unlocked vehicles and maps to demolish at your own pace. A separate Build & Destroy campaign introduces vehicle construction, while editors let you create custom machines, maps, and structures; creations can also be shared through Steam Workshop.
Players often enjoy the satisfying physics of bringing buildings down, experimenting with the varied demolition vehicles, and working through the campaign’s destruction challenges. Some also value the freedom to build machines and play in the sandbox. Reviews are less consistent about the vehicle editor, and recurring complaints mention awkward handling or camera controls and demanding performance.
Join Sharpe Industries as a vehicle test pilot and journey across the world to remote outposts where everything needs to be destroyed, using purpose-built wrecking machines such as flying bulldozers, tanks wielding quad rocket launchers, and ornithopters with grappling hooks.
Master these contraptions and demolish every structure in sight across two campaigns and a Sandbox mode. Deconstruct buildings piece-by-piece or take advantage of explosive chain-reactions with Instruments of Destruction’s advanced physics system.
Tackle a carnage-filled campaign filled with demolition-based objectives, then test your skills even further in dedicated high-score challenges that apply new parameters and objectives to each level. Or take a break from missions and unwind in the Sandbox mode to raze the world at your own pace.
And don’t just destroy: build. Learn how to design your own machines in a dedicated epilogue campaign for the ultimate demolition experience. Use the in-built editor to construct devastating vehicles armed with chainsaws, lasers, claws, wrecking balls, magnets, vortex generators, and much more. Beyond vehicles, design your own custom maps and structures, and share it all with the world via Steam Workshop.
Advanced Physics-Based Destruction – A true physics playground. Drive through structures, launch objects into towers, and trigger epic chain-reactions that destroy everything in sight
Campaign Mode – Take on 50+ carnage-filled missions. Complete all mission objectives to max out the three-star scoring system and unlock new vehicles and maps
Challenge Mode – Revisit campaign missions with custom-made vehicles and all-new parameters for advanced high-score challenges
Sandbox Mode – No limits. No objectives. Load any unlocked map and vehicle, or craft your own, and eliminate everything in sight
130+ Vehicles – Pilot wacky wrecking machines teeming with inventive weaponry and gizmos
Vehicle Editor – Build your own instrument of destruction. Use the powerful editor to construct and test wild vehicle prototypes that defy description. Dream it, design it, drive it, destroy it all
Build & Destroy – Take on a full epilogue campaign featuring 25+ new objective-based missions designed to teach you the nuts and bolts of vehicle creation
90+ Levels – Dozens of maps to unlock across six distinct regions. Enjoy picturesque pillaging or battle against adverse weather conditions in the middle of a tropical storm
Editor Mode – Create your own islands and structures with the advanced toolkit and set up a sandbox ripe for wrecking
Steam Workshop – Share your creations with the world and import other players’ vehicles, islands, and buildings from a library of thousands
| Platforms | Windows |
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| Achievements | 50 |
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| Controller support | PlayStation, Xbox |
| Controller required | No |
