Teardown

Teardown

Steam Deck Verified

Tuxedo Labs · Destruction · Apr 21, 2022

Yes, worth buying.

At $29.99. It has been as low as $14.99.

96%
Overwhelmingly Positive
134k player reviews
High confidence
Buy it if you like
  • Story and characters: 69 reviews raised it, mostly praise
  • Multiplayer: 51 reviews raised it, mostly praise
  • Graphics: 26 reviews raised it, mostly praise
Think twice if you dislike
  • Crashes: 32 reviews raised it, mostly criticism
  • Combat: 6 reviews raised it, mostly criticism

Based on 134k player reviews · updated 3 days ago

What players think

The recurring themes across 300 analysed reviews: what players praise, what divides them, and what to know.

Why players love itThings to know
50% of themes are praise30% are divided20% are caveats
Story and characters
Players who bring up Story and characters mostly praise it.
incredible game. this is just a really fun game, whether you like the heist campaign side or the "gmod but everything is destructible" side of it. the modding community is really good, and keeps the game fresh for a long time.
69 of 300 sampled reviews raised it
Multiplayer
Players who bring up Multiplayer mostly praise it.
Teardown lets me destory millions of voxels, fun in multiplayer and single player.
51 of 300 sampled reviews raised it
Graphics
Players who bring up Graphics mostly praise it.
only issue with this is that the optimization is odd. they pulled some sorcery on the gpu optimization because the game's engine will run path tracing at 60 fps with a gtx 1650, or some intel integrated graphics from 2018 and other weaker gpus. (i know this because ive watched many benchmarks for this game with lower-end gpus and the game runs really well) however, the cpu optimization is really bad, as the game is single threaded, meaning even if you spent 400$ on say, a ryzen 7 9800X3D, the game still drops to single digit fps numbers and even decimal fps numbers when you destroy too much. theres nothing the devs could have done to fix this, as multi threading with real time physics is impossible to work properly. thankfully, these fps numbers can only be achieved with mods. like a lot of mods. and doing really heavy destruction with them. you eventually get used to it though. this is a major complaint, but its still an incredible game.
26 of 300 sampled reviews raised it
Optimization
Players who bring up Optimization mostly praise it.
fun game its super good also the optimization is great i get good fps on my gtx 960 somehow
14 of 300 sampled reviews raised it
Co-op
Players who bring up Co-op mostly praise it.
If you want the perfect co-op deathmatch experience with your small group of friends, DON'T BUY THIS GAME.
13 of 300 sampled reviews raised it

Theme by theme

Every theme is scored by what reviewers actually said about it, not just whether they recommended the game.

LovedMixedComplained about
Players love5 themes
Story and characters69 reviews
Multiplayer51 reviews
Graphics26 reviews
Optimization14 reviews
Co-op13 reviews
Divided opinion% still recommend
Performance23 reviews
87%
Gameplay13 reviews
92%
Difficulty7 reviews
100%
Players complain% still recommend
Crashes32 reviews
81%
Combat6 reviews
83%

Ranked by how many sampled reviews mention each topic. A topic sits in a column by what reviewers said about that topic; the percentage beside it is how many of them recommended the game anyway. 2 more themes were each raised by fewer than 6 sampled reviews and are not shown.

Should you buy it now?

Crit’s read on the price, from Steam price history.

Prices have been lower

Currently $29.99. The lowest we've tracked is $14.99.

4 points recordedtoday · $29.99

The data behind the verdict

For the players who want the receipts.

Player review score
96%
Overwhelmingly Positive
Playing right now
Achievements
27
total to unlock
Rarest-achievement stats coming soon
Average playtime
Not tracked yet

We’ll surface hours-played once playtime ingestion ships.