Deconstruction Simulator

“There's around 30 levels before the story abruptly stops and gives you an endless mode.”

“After the tutorial, you are on your own and the only thing you see are the mission descriptions; no story past the intro.”

“Though I'm very much missing any sort of campaign/story or unlockables, just going through the random contracts to buy miniscule tool updates really isn't that fulfilling.”

“The jobs pay very little compared to the high priced upgrades, it costs $600 for a wrecking ball rental when the jobs pay less than $400 making it a pointless mechanic to have in the game. The orders people make are completely random when they should focus on items you actually have. You can't buy your own demolition equipment or any kind of explosive. There is no upgrade to the hammer so it's tedious having to manually smack the beams in walls especially when your hammer just gets caught on the mountain of insulation pouring out of the wall. The game gets very old very quickly.”

“Most of the gameplay systems (tools, trucks, disassembly, and orders) are tedious and the rewards are unbalanced to the point that it's best just to abandon them, take a hammer to the walls, and just reroll jobs the next day.”

“The inventory management quickly gets tedious, and you begin to wish you could have an NPC load packaged items into a truck, then drive between the house under demolition and your warehouse with another NPC unloading these items, allowing that side of the game to be semi-automated.”

“So I tried returning and now when I launch the game it causes severe visual and audio issues, then freezes on the menu screen.”

“As for the things that could use some work: the placement system is buggy as hell; objects you place tend to bounce around and either fly away or rocket to the moon.”

“There are even others in the discussions that bring up how they have the same fatal error message and most go ignored, so they have to fix it themselves by randomly troubleshooting.”

“But this one sadly takes it way too far - graphical issues left and right, including objects disappearing from the warehouse, trees and other things clipping right into my van, walls/garbage/items getting stuck in weird places during demolition - it all comes together to make it feel more frustrating than fun.”

“Severe graphics bug, should have released as early access.”

“The game seemed really fun from all the videos I've watched, but as soon as I install it and try it with graphics on high it looks like a PS1 game, and no it isn't my computer issue since I can run other simulators and high-demanding games at high settings with no problem.”

“Very poorly optimized.”

“Performance dips and minor bugs can break immersion, though they rarely undermine the core loop entirely.”

“And to top it all off they moved to UE5 between the demo and launch, so what was a decent-looking, fairly performant game is now blurry and stuttering.”

“There is no sound for the tools, no driving sounds, no hitting sounds; there's no sound other than the terrible music.”

“I always shut the music off and listen to the other sounds, but that's not possible yet.”

“No in-game music, making the gameplay feel a bit hollow.”

“Will now remove from library as there's hardly any replay value at this point.”

“Has potential interesting and fun gameplay, but the settings UI needs an overhaul. Many of the sounds in the game are controlled by a single volume slider that does not adjust all sound effects properly. For example, an obnoxious car door sound plays when returning from a job and spawning back at the warehouse, and it can't be adjusted. These issues, along with animation glitches and persistent sounds after animations complete, affect overall playability. Until these changes happen, the game is sidelined for me.”