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8 Best Games Where You Can Destroy The Map

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8 Best Games Where You Can Destroy The Map
8 Best Games Where You Can Destroy The Map

There are tons of games out there that give you a massive world to run around in, but you can attack the ground as much as you want, and you’ll never be able to remove even a speck of dirt from the ground, especially in open world games.

This can inevitably lead to a tinge of disappointment. In a game that tries to be as freeing and open as possible, it’s still as if the ground beneath your feet is made of indestructible steel, and that doesn’t feel quite right.

For this list, I wanted to compile a bunch of games that let you break apart the map, piece by piece, and destroy the entire thing if you’re patient and powerful enough. I also decided to focus a bit more on singleplayer, but that’s for good reason.

Competitive multiplayer games like The Finals or Battlefield do have destructible environments, but destroying things is rarely ever the focus, and is more so an extra mechanic to accent the gameplay. In these games I’ve picked, you can focus on destroying with no worries.

8 Spore

Plenty of Space

Admittedly, this one is mostly here because Spore is a really cool game no one talks about anymore, especially during the Space Stage, where you get the ability to terraform planets. If you go all in on violence, you get the Planet Buster.

This thing allows you to cleanly destroy an entire planet in one fell swoop, which feels all the more effective, given that you spend the first ten or so hours of the game slowly evolving and struggling your way through living on one of those planets.

I think the game definitely could have and should have had far more subtle tools to shape your environment, as you only really get that in very small ways before this point. That said, blowing up glorified big rocks is fun as hell, and I love it.

Especially if your heart is dark enough to destroy the planet you grew thousands of years of species on, it feels like a more impactful destruction than many other games, even if it’s pretty much the only way to make a huge physical impact.

7 Teardown

Square ‘Splosions

While it looks like a simple heist game on the surface, Teardown’s focus is damn near entirely on absolutely wrecking your surroundings, as is evident by the name and by the environment being constructed of very explodable cubes.

I’ve seen some absolutely ridiculous things with this game, namely the destruction of entire cities, especially enhanced through the modding community, providing a ton of extra tools to make your destruction even more violent.

I honestly think I’ve seen far more of this game in the context of people purely destroying a ton of massive things slowly and surely than any of the actual gameplay loop, and it’s mainly because the main gameplay is just a bit whatever.

It’s far more fun to destroy everything in sight and wreak havoc, as planning your route and executing it after making a couple of holes can only be so interesting. It’s a worthwhile time for some good fun, but it’s not exactly the biggest, most in-depth thing.

6 Astroneer

Planetary Punishment

Astroneer is like everything I was saying I wanted out of Spore, mixed with the opposite of the feeling you get in No Man’s Sky, trying to destroy an entire planet, and seeing the game limit you before you can even tear apart a single island.

In this game, not only can you burrow to the center of the planet and make an underground hangout spot, you can tear through the entire crust of the world beneath your feet, and make the world your own, or let it all burn.

It’s also multiplayer, but instead of shifting the focus away from mass destruction, you can enlist your friends in the destruction of the environment. The freedom this game gives you to mess up the world is genuinely astounding.

That said, it is quite a slow burn, and you won’t exactly be tearing everything up too quickly. You have to work your way up to total decimation, but it’s all rather enjoyable even if the world isn’t going to be your oyster for hours.

5 Deep Rock Galactic

Rock and Stone

Pretty much the only multiplayer-focused game here, Deep Rock Galactic manages to focus heavily on its completely destructible environment, alongside being a really fun, mildly stressful time, where you can coincidentally burrow through the map.

Any time you’re not gunning down bugs, you’re usually mining through the map to try and make some bank at your weird dwarven day job. The game is about balancing the act of combat and mining together, and it feels great to pull it off.

Usually, with multiplayer games, getting to decimate the map becomes such a minor focus that it hardly feels appealing, but this one lets you and your teammates dedicate yourselves to the destruction if you want, and that feels awesome.

Of course, you’re still not entirely focused on it, so if that’s the only thing you want to do, it’s probably going to end up being a stressful bug-guts-filled night for you. If you’re into that, though, this is easily one of the best games possible for breaking everything.

4 Noita

Shadow Wizard Money Gang

Release Date

15 October 2020

Developer

Nolla Games

Platforms

PC

In Noita, not only can you find wands that cause bombs to spew out everywhere, but every pixel on screen is a separate physics object to interact with and potentially destroy, like one of those falling sand games people were obsessed with a decade ago.

It’s both an incredibly fun roguelike where you delve through caverns with some enemies that can burn you to death in seconds, and a physics simulation that is practically constantly begging you to push it to the limit at every moment.

Making wand combinations that can cause huge explosions and promptly abusing that power to tear through the entire world is awesome, and unlike most other roguelikes, you can actually stay in this world for as long as you want, which is awesome.

It means you can make the world entirely your own, break it and create anything, all while still having the fear of dying at every turn. You’re never invincible, but the world should still tremble in fear at the sight of you, which is an awesome dynamic.

3 Minecraft

Blocked Up

Released
November 18, 2011

Minecraft is arguably the sole reason this list even exists, as it’s both the best-selling game of all time and the first one to really make a massive world where you can tear apart every single block however you wish, with very few limits on that idea.

Sure, you’re probably never going to be able to destroy the entire world, but you technically can. The only thing stopping you is your dedication and your human lifespan, given you have billions of blocks to work with, as well as annoyingly huge mountains.

Making a massive TNT quarry miner that reigns over the entire land and bombs it all from above, or just using a beacon to insta-mine everything, feels like you’re making a massive impact, and can all change the world forever.

Of course, it’s hard to argue that there is a lot more to Minecraft, as it’s always been a sandbox game that’s been a bit split between its adventuring elements and creative gameplay. That said, you know you have a 2-week phase of playing it every year, don’t lie.

2 Terraria

Conflicting Corruption

Released
May 16, 2011

I think Terraria hits the perfect balance between giving you a massive sandbox and being a proper RPG adventure, with awesome bosses and items that let you tear through dirt like butter. I have a couple thousand hours in it for a reason.

Unlike most other games, you can achieve a pretty damn good rate of destruction by the endgame, and it’s both possible and completely reasonable to destroy the entire world. It’ll take a few hours and a massive amount of explosives, but you can clear the entire thing.

Every time I play Terraria, I make it a point to beat the Moon Lord again and again until I grab the Celebration Mk. 2. With this gun and a lifetime supply of mini-nukes, you can shoot the ground and watch it all get torn to shreds in mere minutes.

There isn’t a particular incentive to do that, but that’s kind of the beautiful thing about it. I can choose to make the entire map a solid color where biomes and homes used to be, and that is entirely my choice to make, and no one can take that away.

1 Donkey Kong Bananza

Monkey Mode

Maybe it’s just a bit of recency bias, but I love Donkey Kong Bananza, and I’ve never had a game encourage me to destroy things so much. You get rewards and praise for tearing through the ground, and your big monkey hands make quick work of it all.

Especially once you unlock the Elephant Bananza, the world feels completely possible to destroy almost entirely. Watching videos of people taking out entire layers, especially massive ones like the Landfill layer, brings a tear to the eye.

It simply feels good to throw chunks, punches, and suck up dirt until there’s nothing left. I got mad at a hide-and-seek mission on the Resort layer, so, out of pure spite, I went full Kong and tore apart every chunk on their island until nothing was left.

It’s the best mix possible of being a great game with a fun story, and letting you use the mechanics in the most fun way possible. If you haven’t had the pleasure of booting this game up just to mess around, I pity you entirely.


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