Delightfully destructive indie title Teardown has been given a 15th November release date on PS5, alongside confirmation that it'll be available through PS Plus Extra (and PS Plus Premium) from day one. It's the latest in a series of games to join Sony's second-tier subscription service at launch. Previously, indie RPG Sea of Stars made the jump, and seemingly proved to be a hit with players.
For those who may not quite know what Teardown is, it's a mission-based sandbox game where you're tasked with completing various objectives — most of which involve, er, tearing things down. The whole thing's made up of completely destructible environments and objects, so there's actually a lot of player freedom in how you tackle each challenge. The title's always been highly rated on PC, where it originally released in 2020.
"Creativity is at the heart of Teardown, across the campaign and Sandbox Mode, but that’s not everything. Our existing community has already made some impressive mods, and we’re excited to share that a selection of our favorites will also be playable on consoles," developer Tuxedo Labs writes on the PlayStation Blog.
Will you be giving Teardown a try when it hits PS Plus in November? Try not to blow holes in the comments section below.
[source blog.playstation.com]
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Without actually seeing any footage, I got blast corps vibes.
I think having these smaller titles launch day 1 on the service has been a really nice compromise to the GamePass day 1 release model. Sure — Stray, Tchia, Humanity, Sea of Stars, and Teardown aren’t Starfield, Forza, or COD, but it’s really giving the service a shot in the arm to have some quality indie games at launch.
@Th3solution
I agree. The Gamepass model is also objectively fiscal suicide (unless you're a massive corporation with limitless funds), so their model is unsustainable and bad for the industry, in my opinion.
This model of smaller games Day 1 is much more sustainable.
@Th3solution Seems to be healthy for the game, too. Titles like Stray got so much more attention through PlayStation's promotion than it would have otherwise. And PlayStation seems quite good at identifying quality games for PS Plus as well.
Wasn’t this featured on a SOP? Remember thinking that it looked pretty good. I’ll probably check it out.
@Fight_Teza_Fight It was, it's also been out on PC for a while and has "overwhelmingly positive" reviews on Steam (and an 80 metascore)
Cool concept but not my cup of tea.
Seen the 4 dlc expansions road map for the game for the next 12 months over on the PS blog. What happens when the game is removed from Extra, means we'll have to buy the game to carry on with the expansions. Unless all 4 expansions release long before it leaves Extra?. Hopefully the main game will be more than fun enough without many of the expansions anyway?. Either way it's nice it's included day one. Looks like could be good fun worth a try
Awesome stuff, Sea of Stars is a quality title, beat the Cloud boss (which was no walk in the park), but havent gone back to it yet, as this year is insane for gaming! Teardown looks like a potential sleeper hit too. I do genuinely feel Sony have the right model, day and date for 1st party is cannabilising.
I wasn’t really interested in this title in the PS Showcase, but I’m really glad it’s coming to the service. THIS is what I want from the service. Give us games like this, Stray, Tchia, Humanity… unique experiences that otherwise may not have been huge sellers. I love this. It keeps the service novel and fresh. Will definitely download this one and try it. Nour should’ve been one of these too.
Looking forward to this. Hopefully the experience wont be butchered compared to an amazing PC version
A nice surprise, hopefully this is some of the "benefits" we will be starting to see from the recent price increase as smaller day one releases seem to be becoming a more frequent thing.
@Beerheadgamer82 Good question and it's something I've wondered about for quite a while with quite a few third party games launching into game pass on release. I assume if the game leaves the service you would still lose access to it unless you buy the base game. Hopefully we get some clarity on this before it releases.
My middle kid has been waiting for this, the fact its on plus is a bonus. At the end of the day, if he's happy then so am i.
Cool, might try it out. Otherwise would skip entirely.
I'm actually glad they aren't going to waste any more time showing this games in future presentations so hopefully it reaches whatever market it seeks.
Teardown is actually a ton of fun, I've played it on and off over the summer and it's a blast, especially with mods.
Oh hell yes, this game is an absolute blast!
Looks like a blast!
This looks like great fun
@Th3solution I ended up buying Stray when it got a physical release. Mostly because I wanted to show some support for the studio, despite having it free (at the time) with PS Plus. Secondly, to support physical releases, especially of smaller indie games like this.
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