Teardown can now be played in third-person.

The developer Tuxedo Labs released a very short and succinct announcement this week about the wildly popular and million-selling Teardown game, which is all about breaking and/or breaking in to things and stealing other things that you find inside. This, to be honest, is an incredibly humble way to say you fundamentally rebuilt your first-person videogame.

This also means that there are now a variety of playable characters available, so you can see who's been carrying the sledgehammer all this time. This new perspective required us to build animation support that modders can access, as well as create and share custom characters," the company continues.

This is a huge change. I'm sorry to spoil a little bit of videogame magic, but before you were a floating invisible camcorder with some arms or whatever you needed at the moment. They couldn't jump over things, climb them or do anything like that. Now they can, and do. This is a pretty wild upgrade and is definitely what they were talking about back in 2023 when we interviewed Tuxedo and realized that they were just starting with Teardown.

In the PC Gamer Teardown Review from 2022, Natalie Clayton described Teardown as ""An infinitely delightful destruction sandbox". "Teardown doesn't just represent a tech demonstration--it is a window to a world in which game worlds became more dynamic, physical, and breakable," she explained. "A world where Half-Life 2's physics, and Red Faction Guerrilla's destructible architectural design were embraced and doubled down--instead pursuing higher graphic fidelity and increasingly static environments."

Teardown was also awarded the PC Gamer Award for Best Sandbox in 2022. It was described as an "absurdly-freeform game about stealing lots of stuff" which "also stole our heart."

Morgan Park wrote: "The journey to squeeze every ounce of enjoyment out of Teardown starts with the satisfying crumble of a wall against your sledgehammer, and gradually escalates up until you are lifting entire apartment complexes using a gravity weapon and launching them into orbit."

Teardown keeps getting better. Teardown is available on Steam for $30. It's currently 50% off, so it's only $15.