Pulling off the perfect heist means making a great plan and escaping without a scratch. For a long time, Tuxedo Labs’ hit game Teardown let players live out those crazy, destructive dreams all by themselves. But now, everything has changed! On March 12, 2026, a massive, highly anticipated multiplayer update dropped on Steam. It lets up to 12 players jump into the game’s fully destructible blocky world together. In this article, we’ll look at what this free update adds to the game, learn a bit about the clever team who made it, check out how the game runs on PC, and give you our final thoughts.
What is Teardown?
Teardown is a heist game made entirely of tiny breakable blocks called “voxels.” The game is split into two fun parts. First, you have a relaxed sandbox phase where you plan your route. You can use sledgehammers, explosives, and vehicles to smash holes through buildings and create the perfect shortcut. Second, you have the chaotic escape phase where alarms go off, and you have to run for your life.
The new multiplayer update takes this fun formula to the next level. Now, up to 12 players can play the entire 40-mission base campaign together in Co-op mode. If you prefer fighting your friends, there are also Competitive modes like Deathmatch, Team Deathmatch, and Capture the Flag. These can be played on two brand-new maps: Splitfield Estate and Cratertown.
On top of all that, the game makes it incredibly easy to use community-made mods in multiplayer. Right now, you and your friends can play wildly different game modes created by other players, like Prop Hunt, Battle Royale, Vehicle Sumo, and The Floor Is Lava.
Core Features
- Destroy Everything: Every single block in the game has real physics, meaning you can smash, burn, and blow up the entire world.
- 12-Player Multiplayer: Play the Co-op Campaign, Sandbox mode, or fight each other in Competitive modes.
- Easy Modding: Deep integration with Steam Workshop makes it easy to download custom maps, weapons, and game modes.
- Beautiful Lighting: The game uses advanced raytracing techniques to make the lighting and shadows look incredibly realistic.
Who are Tuxedo Labs?
Tuxedo Labs is a small, tech-focused game studio based in Malmö, Sweden. It was founded in 2019 by Dennis Gustafsson. Gustafsson is basically a wizard when it comes to video game physics. Before Teardown, he helped create hit physics-based mobile games like Smash Hit and Sprinkle.
Gustafsson always dreamed of making a game where you could destroy absolutely everything. Instead of using a normal game engine like Unreal or Unity, he built the Teardown engine entirely from scratch. This custom engine is the secret sauce that allows the game to calculate the physics of millions of breaking blocks in real-time.
Because Teardown was such a huge success, a larger company named Saber Interactive bought Tuxedo Labs in 2022. But don’t worry—the small team still runs the show, focusing on making cool physics and supporting the amazing players who create mods for the game.
Cool DLC that expands upon the main game!
What is the world saying?
Gamers and critics absolutely love Teardown. The game holds a great score of 80/100 on Metacritic. Even more impressive, it has an “Overwhelmingly Positive” rating on Steam, with 95% of over 71,000 players leaving a good review. People love the realistic physics and how satisfying it is to smash things up.
On the technical side, Teardown is surprisingly well-made. It runs surprisingly smooth on older, cheaper PCs if you turn the graphics settings down.
However, the game isn’t perfect, and it has faced some very fair criticism. Many players feel the main campaign actually gets in the way of the fun. Instead of letting you freely destroy buildings, most missions turn into strict, stressful puzzles where you have exactly 60 seconds to steal items and escape before you fail. This heavy reliance on trial-and-error can get repetitive and frustrating for players who just want a relaxing destruction sandbox.
The game’s paid expansions have also seen mixed reactions from the community. For example, the Time Campers DLC was criticized for repeating the same timed-mission formula without adding much new to the table, while the Folkrace DLC focused heavily on demolition derby racing instead of pure sandbox destruction. In fact, many hardcore fans argue that the free, community-made mods are often much more creative and fun than the official paid DLCs.
Finally, on the technical side, there is a catch. While the game runs surprisingly smooth on older PCs on low settings, blowing up a massive building all at once will slow down even super high-end computers. This isn’t because the game is broken, far from it. It’s simply because calculating the physics for millions of flying blocks puts a massive strain on the CPU. There is simply a limit to how much destruction a computer can handle at one time! Oh, well…
Fun Fact Sheet
- Clever Lighting: Despite looking gorgeous, Teardown doesn’t use traditional “global illumination” to bounce light around. It uses a specialized trick for shadows to save your computer’s resources!
- Modding Surprises: The developers were shocked when a fan created a fully working Portal gun for the game—it even let you see through the portals using custom lighting code!
- Free Art Tools: The developers used a free, simple program called MagicaVoxel to build the game’s detailed levels.
- Saving Internet Speed: To make multiplayer work without crashing your internet, the game doesn’t send data for every single block over the network. Instead, it just syncs the “events” (like a hammer hitting a wall) so everyone’s game calculates the same destruction.
What is our verdict?
Teardown started as a cool technical experiment and grew into one of the most creative games on the market. By mixing totally destructible environments with the puzzle-solving fun of a heist, Tuxedo Labs created something special.
Adding a 12-player multiplayer mode is the icing on the cake. Getting destruction physics to sync perfectly over the internet is incredibly hard to do, but the team pulled it off beautifully. Whether you are working together to beat the campaign or just blowing each other up in Sandbox mode, it is an absolute blast. With console multiplayer and a new racing mode coming later this year, Teardown is a must-play for PC gamers.
Have you jumped into the new multiplayer update yet? Did you manage to pull off the perfect co-op heist, or did your friends accidentally drop a building on your getaway vehicle? Let us know in the comments below!
ID Card
- Developer: Tuxedo Labs
- Publisher: Saber Interactive
- Engine: Custom In-House Voxel Engine
- Platforms: PC (Steam). PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S multiplayer coming later this year.
- Release Date: Base Game: April 21, 2022 | Multiplayer Update: March 12, 2026
- Genre: Action / Sandbox / Puzzle
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