Best Destruction Games on Steam
Games where breaking objects, buildings, terrain, or systems is a core pleasure.
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1BeamNG.drive - A dynamic soft-body physics vehicle simulator capable of doing just about anything.
May 29, 2015
In this game, you can…
- change gravity settings and watch the same truck drive completely differently under moon or Jupiter gravity.
- join multiplayer races and chases, and keep driving even with half your truck bent under itself.
- wrap a car around itself by slamming it into a fence over and over.
- spawn traffic, rear-end someone, and get launched airborne for five seconds in the wreck.
- break your suspension cutting a rally corner, then limp the rest of the stage to the finish.
- build absurd custom vehicles, like a JATO rocket semi, then immediately stress-test them out in the world.
- take on deliveries, bus routes, police chases, and truck jobs where normal tasks turn dramatic because the physics won't fake it.
- hit traffic at highway speed, then crash into a jam in slow motion and watch the pileup deform in detail.
2People Playground - Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Jul 23, 2019
In this game, you can…
- tear maps open with explosives until wall panels fall away, revealing detailed pipes and wiring hidden behind the surface.
- strap rocket boosters to ragdolls, then escalate into spike-and-flamethrower traps and a machine that launches someone into space.
- swap a person's blood for other liquids, like acid or atomic-bomb ingredients, and watch their body chemically change and even glow green.
- kidnap three people, make them fight to the death, then set the last one free.
- wire generators, logic gates, and machines together into contraptions that mix electricity, fire, acid, bullets, syringes, and healing fields.
- spawn people with jetpacks and swords, then make them fight robots or other AI while you stage the whole arena.
- mess with the environment—temperature, rain, snow, lightning, ocean, lava, abyss—and use it to run controlled catastrophe experiments.
3Teardown - 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.
Apr 21, 2022
In this game, you can…
- rip a fridge door off with a blowtorch, glue it onto a water-sensitive safe, and carry it through the rain without setting it off.
- move six rain-triggered safes in different trucks, plank and debris-shield them, ferry them to a cliff, then dump them into the ocean one by one.
- set a building on fire and watch flames spread, smoke pour out, and the structure collapse into a charred husk.
- spend as long as you want reshaping the map, then trigger a 60-second alarm and sprint an escape route you built yourself.
- knock a hole in a barn, build plank paths across rooftops, and use a crane to lift a car onto a boat before time runs out.
- peel a building apart until the roof drops onto a vehicle, then drive that vehicle as a mobile bridge to a new route.
- drive a bulldozer straight through walls and level an entire town.
- use a crane to lift pallets and lay planks to connect buildings, turning construction gear into your heist path.
4Goat Simulator - Goat Simulator is the latest in high-tech Goat Simulation technology.
Apr 1, 2014
In this game, you can…
- crash a garden party, set everyone on fire, drag them into the woods, and sacrifice them to Satan to become a demon goat.
- lick people and objects, then drag them around town on your tongue.
- unlock absurd transformations like angel goat, king goat, or a goat that summons peasant goats from the sky.
- do backflips while headbutting objects through windows for extra points.
- attach your tongue to a bike, leap over it while it dangles, then slam it for a bigger stunt combo.
- headbutt a gas station until it explodes.
- jump off a construction crane, grab onto a paraglider, and then rocket into the sky with an explosive jetpack.
- meet aliens, call them down, and get abducted.
5Brick Rigs - Do whatever you want in a physics sandbox full of chaotic destruction, endless player-made creations and unpredictable adventures. Build, destroy, roleplay and mess around solo or with friends!
Jul 14, 2023
In this game, you can…
- spawn a car, start driving, and get obliterated by a thermonuclear pizza flying past at mach 23.
- spawn a full McDonald's, then hit it at light speed with a flying cigarette box and watch the whole building explode apart.
- crash a nuclear-cargo train off a bridge and turn it into a city-sized wreck.
- build a working tank, invite friends, and blow enemy LEGO tanks into pieces in multiplayer battles.
- snap together custom LEGO vehicles fast in the editor, then drive them and rewatch the wrecks in slow motion.
- download workshop creations like helicopters, planes, APCs, and trains, then throw them into derbies, dogfights, races, and custom maps.
- build vehicles from scratch using steering, suspension, sensors, and logic, then finally get a fully functional machine rolling.
- trigger explosions so huge they can crash a multiplayer server or even your PC.
6WorldBox - God Simulator - WorldBox is the ULTIMATE god simulator and sandbox game. A petri dish for your fantasy civilizations. Create your own world or destroy it using many powers. Watch civilizations grow, form kingdoms, colonize new lands, sail to far continents, wars to ignite, empires to fall and towns to burn!
Dec 2, 2021
In this game, you can…
- give grasshoppers sapience with monoliths, watch them churn through a hundred kingdoms in a year, then somehow invent agriculture and windmills.
- curse the world so every death leaves a wandering wraith haunting the land for the rest of history.
- drop a landlocked orc tribe into a mountain bowl and watch them still research boats and set up maritime trade routes.
- watch cats become a shoreline empire so influential that other species start naming their children and cities in catlike words.
- build a wall between two civilizations, fast-forward time, then smash it down and trigger instant mass slaughter.
- give a single person immortality and every trait, make them king, and watch them conquer a 78x53 landmass while surviving plagues and gods.
- edit the genes of an entire species at once, then watch them develop their own building style and start conquering other civilizations.
7Besiege - 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!
Feb 18, 2020
In this game, you can…
- stack millions of bombs under a rocket, set them off, and get launched kilometers into the air as burning debris rains down.
- build a self-stabilizing VTOL airship with 12 missiles, turrets, a cargo bay with doors, a cockpit view, and jet boost.
- build a catapult to launch a boulder, then watch the boulder launch the catapult and still win.
- build a spiked go-cart, then keep escalating into catapults, flying machines, and other siege contraptions.
- plant a bladed windmill on a post and let incoming birds fly into it.
- use hinge parts as tank tracks and roll a handmade tank across the battlefield.
- create a walking robot with cannon arms, a flamethrower mouth, and a helicopter head that still moves and fights.
- turn on god powers to ignite anything, drag machines around, switch to zero gravity, and make builds invincible for testing.
8Just Cause 2 - Dive into an adrenaline-fuelled free-roaming adventure with 400 square miles of rugged terrain and hundreds of weapons and vehicles.
Mar 23, 2010
In this game, you can…
- grapple onto a helicopter, hijack it mid-air, crash it into a huge structure, jump out, and parachute onto a moving motorcycle.
- use a grappling hook to tether people and objects together, attach enemies to speeding vehicles, and experiment with the chaos that causes.
- chain vehicle transfers by grappling from a car to another car, then to a helicopter, then onto a jet, turning travel into a rolling hijack sequence.
- open your parachute and keep moving by grappling, swinging, gliding, and slingshotting roof to roof instead of running.
- hijack a military jet, fire missiles at everything, then turn the crash into a refinery-sized explosion by ramming your target.
- order weapons and vehicles anywhere, including having a helicopter airdrop gear right into the middle of an ongoing firefight.
- wipe out an entire military base by planting explosives on fuel and infrastructure, walking away unseen, and detonating from a safe distance.
- turn captured locations into 100% destruction puzzles by hunting down and blowing up every tower, generator, antenna, and statue until nothing's left.
9Men of War: Assault Squad 2 - Men of War: Assault Squad 2 expands the real-time tactics series with new skirmish missions, massive multiplayer battles, enhanced visuals, improved AI, and full Direct Control. Command five factions across 65 maps, 250 vehicles, and 200 soldiers in one of the most detailed WWII RTS experiences.
May 15, 2014
In this game, you can…
- take direct control of a soldier or tank to drive, aim manually, and swap ammo types mid-fight.
- disable an enemy tank, kill the crew, repair it, and crew it yourself to turn it back on its own side.
- collapse a building with an HE shot so the falling debris kills the gun crew hiding behind it.
- disable a tank by knocking out its tracks, turret, gun, engine, or crew with one well-placed shot.
- crawl a single sapper with TNT up behind a heavy tank and blow it apart at point-blank range.
- strip dead soldiers and wrecks for weapons, ammo, grenades, bandages, and fuel, then use it immediately.
- transfer ammo and supplies between vehicles, loot disabled tanks, and keep a frontline force running without resupply.
10Universe Sandbox - Create & destroy on an unimaginable scale with a realistic physics-based space simulator. Explore the beauty of our universe and the fragility of our planet. Use science to bend the laws of gravity, collide planets, boil away oceans, fire epic space lasers, and customize your universe.
Aug 24, 2015
In this game, you can…
- turn Earth into a star, crash it into the Sun, and erase the solar system in two days.
- place two black holes on opposite sides of Earth and watch them fight over it, then feed your custom solar system to the winner.
- turn Pluto into a world-eater, shred Jupiter into orbiting fragments, then ram the result into the Sun until it becomes a nebula.
- throw extra moons into Earth's orbit so they collide, explode into debris, and the fragments finish the planet off.
- make a banana as heavy as the Sun, then use it to blow up Earth on repeat.
- build a solar system from scratch, add moons and rings, then watch everything reshape itself under gravity in real time.
- remove all CO2 from Earth to trigger a full snowball planet, then warm it back up by shooting the Moon into it.
- crank a star's mass until it collapses, then watch it explode into a supernova you can observe step by step.
