Demolish & Build 2018
Skip · Strategy · 2018
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 46, under the fair line, at $9.99.
- Length
- 17.1h
- Value
- $0.58/hr
- Reviews
- 76% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVidia GeForce GTX 750, 15 GB of storage. Windows only.
Your company is going global. Use big machines to demolish huge buildings or go close and personal and use your hammer. Buy land properties, upgrade your machines and hire workers in different parts of the world.
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
The value story
It has never been cheaper than $0.89. That was April 2026. Its cuts run 90 percent off as a rule. There have been 84 in the 9 years tracked, about 5 weeks apart.
On value it sits in the top 21 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 68 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 65 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Fireworks Mania - An Explosive Simulator ($14.99, scores 62) beats it on value, while it beats DRIFT CE ($29.99, scores 22).
Of the 529 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 4 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 56 percent of the 399 reviews written there were positive, against 76 percent overall, and those are 26 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
77% start to 6% 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
1 players online when we last checked, on Sep 26, 09:48 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Decent graphics for a 2018 game, with satisfying destruction sounds and visuals, and a good story with buying different tools and vehicles. I did notice that some missions register as complete before all the debris has been cleared/destroyed and the physics could be better, the pickup truck front suspension goes up when braking instead of down! Aside from this it's a satisfying game. D&B 3 would probably be a better...
The game is 100% complete. I finished it in 30 hours and managed to complete all the achievements. When I was playing on the last island, it was already boring, even though they let me operate a construction crane. But I would remove the construction elements from this game altogether, leaving the focus on destruction. Because construction is very tedious and not very fun. It's very primitive. Yes, the destruction...
100% - 11 hrs Achievements - 25 Review - 5/10 - The game was fun for the first 3hrs but after that it just became way too repetitive, you just do the same thing over and over again in 4 different locations. The world is dead with only a handful of NPC cars driving around. The map doesn't work very well as quite a few roads aren't even on the map so the guide doesn't always work well either. Its not a terrible game...
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Cite this score
Demolish & Build 2018 scores 46/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/577670/demolish-build-2018Reviews 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 26, price as of Oct 1.
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