Teardown is one of those games that’s just fun to look at, with all of its completely destructible voxel environments. When it first got announced it kind of reminded me of those old Flash games where you had simple creatures you could shake around and chuck stuff at, the joy of it being to see how far you could push things.
Messing around like that is all the better with friends though, I reckon, and would you look at that, developer Tuxedo Labs have just announced today that a multiplayer update is on the way to the sandbox game.
As shared in a press release, it’s not just a simple matter of being able to bust up buildings to you and your friends’ hearts’ content, as there’ll be campaign co-op, competitive, and sandbox modes in what’s described as the game’s “largest update” yet. All you have to do is check the Teardown subreddit to see how highly requested a feature multiplayer is. There was even a multiplayer mod released a few years back, so this will be welcome news I’m sure.
The multiplayer update will launch initially through the game’s Experimental Branch on Steam, and the team will be looking for feedback. Modders might be especially inclined to give it a go, as additions to Teardown’s API are planned for around the same time to help people update existing mods to work in multiplayer.
There’s no release date in sight for the multiplayer update, not even a release window, just a promise that it’s “coming later this year.” Teardown’s been on my list to pick up pretty much since it came out, just one of those games that got away from me, but the opportunity to cause a little bit of destructive mischief with some friends sounds pretty appealing right now.