ABRISS - build to destroy
Skip · Strategy · 2023
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
WAIT.
It has sold at a fair price before.
Today
$14.99Skip
On its price record
$12.61Fair
- Length
- 3.7h 10.6h to 100%
- Value
- $4.05/hr
- Reviews
- 81% of 569 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at $12.61 or less.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
About the game
ABRISS is an atmospheric physics-destruction building game.Build structures from parts to let them crash into your targets. Unlock new parts, destroy more, witness entropy at its worst in digital-brutalist cityscapes. Build to destroy.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Nvidia GeForce GTX 970 Ti, 3 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
30 discounts in the 5 years on record, a median of 35 percent off across all of them, roughly 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
Value puts it in the top 19 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 81 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 79 percent. On the same math Fly Corp ($8.99, scores 71) and Dorfromantik ($13.99, scores 97) are the better buys, and they are the games it most resembles.
More about ABRISS - build to destroy
Of the 379 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 4 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2022 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 77 percent of the 207 reviews written there were positive, against 81 percent overall, and those are 46 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 3.7 hours; clearing it takes 11, which is 2.9 times the campaign.
The drop-off
96% start to <1% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
- Players online
- 3 when we last checked, on Oct 10, 13:53 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
I was looking for some Besiege alternatives, but unfortunately this one does not make a good first impression. There some good and interesting ideas here, like not having to build vehicles to carry your weapons, like having multiple "moves" per level, and the game in general is fun when it works . The graphics are good, the sound is decent, the destruction - satisfying. But the bugs are just unforgivable. Having to...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Like other reviews have said the physics in this game are not deterministic, so for many levels you will have to reset repeatedly with the exact same solution in the hopes of getting an outcome that achieves 100% or even just clears the level. A deeply frustrating experience which isn't helped by the sluggish controls and often times uncomfortable camera angle.
I bought this game to watch gorgeous destruction animations and it did indeed delver on that I mean, that "Best Graphic Design" in the game's profile is fully waranted - game is SO stylish and cool. Gameplay isn't as cool since it's very unfinished. So probably waiting for sale is a good thing to do. Also I'm very hyped for this develooper's next game (Vandenburg) so I wanted to support them a bit.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
ABRISS - build to destroy scores 48/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1671480/abriss-build-to-destroyReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 27, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.