Teardown (Franchise)

***Teardown*** is a sandbox, puzzle and action game developed and published by Swedish developer Tuxedo Labs. It was released in early access in October of 2020, and it was officially released on April 21, 2022.

## Teardown

### First Installment

Teardown (2020) (Early Access)Teardown (2022) (Full Release)

## Gameplay

*Teardown* is a sandbox game with puzzle and action elements. The player can freely navigate the game's nine levels, which consist entirely of destructible voxels. Some voxel materials require stronger tools to destroy. The player starts out with a sledgehammer, fire extinguisher, and spray can. The spray can can be used to mark points of interest. Later tools are unlocked throughout the campaign, including a blowtorch, a shotgun, bombs, and a rocket launcher, which have limited uses. New structures can be erected using planks. Acquired tools can be upgraded using cash earned from collecting valuables scattered throughout levels. Vehicles including trucks, cranes, excavators, and boats can be used for traversal and destruction, as well as explosives like propane tanks.

Each mission comprises one or more objectives, of which some are required and some optional. In most missions, the player is tasked with stealing or destroying a predetermined set of objects connected to a security alarm. Once it is triggered, the player has sixty seconds to complete the required objectives and reach a getaway vehicle. Failing to do so results in a security helicopter spotting the getaway vehicle and the player failing the level. The initial setup time is unlimited to allow the player to plan and create a fast route between the objectives. Level overviews and route replays are presented from a top-down view. In other kinds of missions, the player must raze buildings to an indicated height, move heavy objects to a central location, avoid an attack helicopter, pass by security robots undetected, or extinguish fires from lightning strikes to avoid triggering a fire alarm. Some levels feature multiple missions with slightly altered world designs. All missions are accessible via a hub world, and previous progress can be loaded from a quick save.

Outside of the campaign, the Sandbox mode puts the player into any of the unlocked levels with all tools and their upgrades but without objectives. Three challenge modes can be played on each unlocked level: In Mayhem, the player must destroy as many voxels as possible within sixty seconds; in Hunted, the player is tasked with collecting randomly appearing items while being chased by an attack helicopter; and in Fetch, the player has to collect as many items as possible in a sixty-second time frame.

Custom levels and structures can be modelled using the program MagicaVoxel and imported into the game. *Teardown* includes a level editor and integration with the Steam Workshop. Most game elements are scriptable using the Lua programming language. Early on, players created art using the in-game tools, while mods had appeared by November 2020. More than 1,100 mods had been submitted to the Steam Workshop by May 2022. The game highlights select mods curated by the developers. The *Art Vandals* expansion, released in December 2022, was modelled as a mod to showcase the modding system's capabilities.

## Story

In the Löckelle Municipality, the owner of Löckelle Teardown Services, a struggling demolition company, faces financial difficulties. The owner of the company accepts a questionable job from Gordon Woo, who wants an old building demolished to make way for his Evertides Mall. However, things take a dangerous turn when the owner's mother reveals that the building was under cultural heritage protection and the Löckelle Police Department's criminal investigator Parisa Terdiman becomes involved. The game primarily unfolds through emails the player character receives and tasks the owner with helping Terdiman uncover the truth behind the dubious job and a larger conspiracy involving energy drink producer BlueTide, run by Mr. Amanatides.

As the investigation progresses, the owner is asked to repeatedly break into the Lee Chemicals premises and Lee's private properties to retrieve information about a mystery client. The owner also helps Terdiman with obtaining communication data from BlueTide's premises on Hollowrock Island and accounting data from Lee Chemicals. Through Woo, Amanatides learns of the owner's services and hires them to increase BlueTide's security by obtaining confidential information on autonomous guard robots.

As Terdiman investigates an unknown substance found in BlueTide's drinks, a leftover shipping label recovered from Hollowrock Island reveals that Amanatides controls the Evertides Mall and uses it as a repackaging hub for the substance. Shipping logs from the Evertides Mall lead the owner to the Muratori Islands, where Terdiman orders them to secure evidence and destroy the local supply chain.

As a result of the disruptions on Hollowrock Island, at the Evertides Mall, and on the Muratori Islands, Amanatides fires Woo as the mall's manager and begins a revenge plot against who he believes harmed BlueTide's business. He orders the owner to retrieve a truck, autonomous robots, and nitroglycerin. Amanatides uses these components to assemble a destructive machine he dubs the Truxterminator. Terdiman and the Löckelle Police Department raid Hollowrock Island and apprehend Amanatides, who reveals that he had already deployed the Truxterminator to destroy the town of Cullington, where he had spotted the former Löckelle Teardown Services company vehicle in the owner's mother's driveway. The owner's mother is unaware of her fate as she is trying out her new tanning bed, so the owner arrives in Cullington and safely guides the Truxterminator through the town and into the sea.

## In Super Smash Bros. Multiverse

### Fighter

* The Owner
* Freya Woo

### Stages

* Löckelle Teardown Services
* Lee Chemicals
* Woonderland
* West Point Marina
* Villa Gordon
* Hollowrock Island
* Evertides Mall
* Frustrum
* Muratori Beach
* Isla Estocastica
* Quilez Security
* Cullington
* Tilläggaryd
* Western Camp
* Combustown
* Mineral Ravine
* Löckelle Motor Park

### Assist Trophies

* Helicopter
* Gun Robot
* Flamethrower Robot
* Missile Robot
* Spider Robot

### Music

* Main Theme
* Menu
* The Old Building Problem
* The Lee Computers
* Making Space
* The Login Devices
* The Car Wash
* Classic Cars
* The BlueTide Computers
* The Speed Deal
* Art Return
* Flooding
* An Assortment of Dishes
* The Chase
* The Heist
* Mission Completed
* Quilez Security
* Vigilance
* Quilez Hunted
* The BlueTide Shortage
* The Shipping Logs
* Sunny Muratori Radio
* Soothy Muratori Radio
* Chilly Muratori Radio
* The Alarm System
* Isla Estocastica Heist
* Moving the Goods
* Havoc in Paradise
* Truckload of Trouble
* The Quilez Tools
* Connecting the Dots
* The Pawn Shop
* Parade
* Covert Chaos
* Malice in Woonderland
* Droid Dismount
* Late Dinner
* The Final Diversion
* Credits
* Hunted Medley
* Art Vandals Theme
* Tilläggaryd
* Out With A Bang
* Paper Girl
* Tilläggaryd Heist
* Tilläggaryd Mission Completed
* Tilläggaryd Fail
* Löckelle
* Car Repair Radio
* Time Campers
* Nils Andrée, Camping Enthusiast
* Camp Theme - Day
* Stocking Up
* Camp Theme - Night
* Hiding Traces
* Preemptive Prohibition
* Tumbling Around
* Greasing the Gears
* Motivational Reminder
* Time Campers Heist
* Choo-Choosing Path
* Time Campers Fail

## Media with elements appearing in Smash

### Teardown

* All fighters, stages, music, assist trophies, items, and spirits come from ***Teardown***