Demolish & Build 3: Excavator Playground
Released Aug 2022
Demolish & Build 3: Excavator Playground is a playable sneak peek at the driving and demolition physics from the upcoming Demolition & Build 3. In the game, you take control of a modern excavator and drive around a small test track or demolish structures.
83% positive · 257 reviews
Done
All announced content has been released
High confidence
Done
All announced content has been released
High confidence
Where to get it
Free on Steam
Evaluation
Demolish & Build 3: Excavator Playground is a free tech demo — a deliberately limited "sneak peek" at the physics and driving mechanics being built for the full game, Demolish & Build 3. It was always intended as a promotional tool, not a standalone product with its own ongoing content roadmap.
The demo launched on August 19, 2022. The developer posted a follow-up on August 31, 2022 explaining that some new vehicle attachments would be added to the Excavator Playground in future updates, and that a new controller mapping system was about a month or two away. That controller customization update shipped on December 16, 2022 — fulfilling the promised additions.
All subsequent developer posts (from 2023 onward) are focused entirely on the main game, Demolish & Build 3, including demo events, a free Prologue release in March 2024, and the full game's launch on September 11, 2024. None of these posts reference any further updates to the Excavator Playground demo itself.
The Excavator Playground has served its purpose: it previewed the physics engine ahead of the main game, received the promised controller update, and the full Demolish & Build 3 has since released. The demo is complete and has had no developer communication specific to it since December 2022.
Evidence
Demolish & Build 3 (the full game this demo was previewing) officially launched on Steam, marking the completion of the demo's purpose as a pre-release promotional tool.
Controller customization system update released, fulfilling the promise made in the August 31, 2022 post. This is the last post addressing the Excavator Playground directly.
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Developer
Publisher
Demolish Games S.A.
Achievements
38
Platform
Windows
Controller
full support
Steam Deck
Not rated
Players
Single-player
About this game
Demolish & Build 3 will include brand new demolition and driving physics. This short tech demo allows you to try them out before the final release.
Some of the main features of Demolish & Build 3: Excavator Playground include:
Some of the main features of Demolish & Build 3: Excavator Playground include:
- A large excavator equipped with demolition shears,
- Vehicle controls based on real excavators,
- Physics-based track mechanics,
- Full controller support,
- Fully destructible objects,
- A small test track,
- Ramps,
- Concrete structures that can be demolished,
- Third-person and first-person camera modes,
- And more…
Last evaluated Jun 21, 2026
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