Instruments of Destruction

Instruments of Destruction

Released May 2024

Crash through walls and tear down buildings in Instruments of Destruction, a vehicle-action game featuring advanced physics-based demolition. Pilot 130+ unique vehicles across scores of challenge-packed missions or design your own contraptions and wreck highly-interactive sandbox worlds.

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All announced content has been released
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Evaluation

Instruments of Destruction launched on May 10, 2024 after a lengthy Early Access period. The developer (Luke at Radiangames) continued updating the game post-launch through a series of feature patches and bug fixes, culminating in a major console release (PS5 and Xbox Series X|S) on October 23, 2025. A pivotal developer post on June 24, 2025 announced that Secret Mode had taken over as publisher to handle console polish and ongoing PC maintenance. In that same post, Luke explicitly stated he would be "stepping away from Instruments to focus on my many other projects with Radiangames," handing off future communication to the new publisher team. An earlier January 2025 post from Luke had been candid: "I don't plan to work on Instruments of Destruction after the first half of this year. That doesn't mean it'll never have more updates beyond that, just that I probably won't be the one working on them." He described "a new update for Instruments of Destruction with a few refinements to build mode" as one of his near-term plans, but framed this as a wind-down, not an ongoing content commitment. That planned refinements update was delivered through the 1.11 patch (February 6, 2025) and the 1.14 balance/bug fix patch (August 21, 2025), which together brought gamepad support, new vehicle parts, and balance tuning in preparation for the console launch. After the console shadow-drop on October 23, 2025, there have been no further developer communications — from either Luke or Secret Mode — through today's date of June 24, 2026. The July 2025 post from Luke also mentioned that future Radiangames projects would feature "a new destruction system," signaling that Instruments itself is not the vehicle for his future destruction ambitions. There are no unreleased DLC listed on the store, no announced roadmap for future content, and no post-console-launch updates of any kind. Taken together, the developer has transitioned away from the game, the console release represents the culmination of their post-launch work, and there is no evidence of further content commitments. The game appears complete as of the October 23, 2025 console launch.
Evidence
Instruments of Destruction shadow-dropped on PS5 and Xbox Series X|S, fulfilling the console release that had been in development throughout 2025. This is the last recorded developer communication.
news post · Oct 23, 2025 source content shipped
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Developer Luke announced that Secret Mode is taking over as publisher for the console release and ongoing PC support. Luke stated he is stepping away from Instruments of Destruction to focus on other Radiangames projects, handing all future communication to Secret Mode.
news post · Jun 24, 2025 source development ending
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Details

Developer
Publisher
Secret Mode
Achievements
50
Platform
Windows
Controller
partial support
Steam Deck
Playable
Players
Single-player

About this game

Join Sharpe Industries as a vehicle test pilot and journey across the world to remote outposts where everything needs to be destroyed, using purpose-built wrecking machines such as flying bulldozers, tanks wielding quad rocket launchers, and ornithopters with grappling hooks.  

Master these contraptions and demolish every structure in sight across two campaigns and a Sandbox mode. Deconstruct buildings piece-by-piece or take advantage of explosive chain-reactions with Instruments of Destruction’s advanced physics system.   

Tackle a carnage-filled campaign filled with demolition-based objectives, then test your skills even further in dedicated high-score challenges that apply new parameters and objectives to each level. Or take a break from missions and unwind in the Sandbox mode to raze the world at your own pace.  

And don’t just destroy: build. Learn how to design your own machines in a dedicated epilogue campaign for the ultimate demolition experience. Use the in-built editor to construct devastating vehicles armed with chainsaws, lasers, claws, wrecking balls, magnets, vortex generators, and much more. Beyond vehicles, design your own custom maps and structures, and share it all with the world via Steam Workshop. 

Key Features 

  • Advanced Physics-Based Destruction – A true physics playground. Drive through structures, launch objects into towers, and trigger epic chain-reactions that destroy everything in sight 

  • Campaign Mode – Take on 50+ carnage-filled missions. Complete all mission objectives to max out the three-star scoring system and unlock new vehicles and maps 

  • Challenge Mode – Revisit campaign missions with custom-made vehicles and all-new parameters for advanced high-score challenges 

  • Sandbox Mode – No limits. No objectives. Load any unlocked map and vehicle, or craft your own, and eliminate everything in sight 

  • 130+ Vehicles – Pilot wacky wrecking machines teeming with inventive weaponry and gizmos 

  • Vehicle Editor – Build your own instrument of destruction. Use the powerful editor to construct and test wild vehicle prototypes that defy description. Dream it, design it, drive it, destroy it all 

  • Build & Destroy – Take on a full epilogue campaign featuring 25+ new objective-based missions designed to teach you the nuts and bolts of vehicle creation 

  • 90+ Levels – Dozens of maps to unlock across six distinct regions. Enjoy picturesque pillaging or battle against adverse weather conditions in the middle of a tropical storm 

  • Editor Mode – Create your own islands and structures with the advanced toolkit and set up a sandbox ripe for wrecking 

  • Steam Workshop – Share your creations with the world and import other players’ vehicles, islands, and buildings from a library of thousands 

Last evaluated Jun 24, 2026
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