Teardown Review (Steam)

For our Teardown Review, we need to plan the perfect heist using creative problem-solving, brute force, and everything around us. Teardown features a fully destructible and truly interactive environment where player freedom and emergent gameplay are the driving mechanics.

Teardown Review Pros:

  • Decent voxel-like graphics.
  • 3.19GB Download size.
  • Steam achievements.
  • Full controller support.
  • Graphics settings – screen mode, resolution, render scale slider, render quality, gamma, a field of view slider, barrel distortion, motion blur, and v – sync.
  • Controller settings are dealt with in the steamy controller config system.
  • Can rebind controls on the mouse and keyboard.
  • Game settings to change your experience – adjust alarm time, adjust ammo, adjust health, mission skipping, and allow spawn.
  • Sandbox settings – unlock all levels, and unlock all tools.
  • Full Mod support complete with a featured mods menu.
  • Four game modes – Campaign, sandbox, Challenges, and expansions.
  • Fast loading times.
  • On-screen button prompts for both the keyboard and the controller.
  • First-person view.
  • Tutorial signs as you play.
  • Pick up canisters or items from the world.
  • Vehicles and construction vehicles can be found, driven, and used.
  • Handy overview camera showing the land and missions.
  • Full physics mechanics.
  • Your home is where you can mess around and take on missions.
  • Ten locations.
  • Plays as a destruction-based puzzle game.
  • Infinite replay value.
  • So much fun to play.
  • Play how you want and it is highly encouraged.
  • Adds in variety with Heist-style missions and even has enemy robots!
  • Fires can break out so you need to put them out.
  • Forty-odd story missions.
  • Over 15 types of tools.
  • Find valuables with story missions for bonus rewards.
  • Online leaderboards.
  • Remote play together support.

Teardown Review Cons:

  • The menu navigation with the controller is clumsy with the right stick controlling a mouse pointer.
  • The walls fall down way too quickly with the vehicles.
  • The tutorial hints are not that specific or common.
  • Felt like I didn’t know what to do all the time.
  • The first job in the campaign should have been a lot more hand-holding as it lays out everything you can and needs to do.
  • The music isn’t that great.

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Teardown:

Official website.

Developer: Tuxedolabs

Publisher: Tuxedolabs

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Steam

  • 8/10
    Graphics - 8/10
  • 7/10
    Sound - 7/10
  • 7/10
    Accessibility - 7/10
  • 9/10
    Length - 9/10
  • 10/10
    Fun Factor - 10/10
8.2/10

Summary

Teardown is a surprise hit for me, I didn’t really know what I was getting into as it passed me by thanks to the ever-busy schedule. Teardown is a game that always boils down to smashing shit up to try and solve your problems which is a good way to approach life! The voxel-style graphics lend themselves well to the fully destructible environment, the garage of vehicles and tools dictate what and how you go about your onslaught. I love just booting it up and getting on with it with not a lot of fuss. You buy this game to either smash crap up or because you love out-of-the-box thinking of solutions.

Jim Smale

Gaming since the Atari 2600, I enjoy the weirdness in games counting Densha De Go and RC De Go as my favourite titles of all time. I prefer gaming of old where buying games from a shop was a thing, Being social in person was a thing. Join me as I attempt to adapt to this new digital age!