DYSMANTLE

Dysmantle is played from a top-down perspective and combines elements of open-world exploration, action role-playing, survival, crafting, and adventure games. The player controls a survivor exploring a large island after emerging from an underground shelter. The main objective is to find a way to escape the island while uncovering its history and surviving hostile creatures.

A central mechanic is the ability to destroy most objects in the environment. Objects such as furniture, fences, appliances, streetlights, and other structures can be broken down for crafting materials once the player has tools strong enough to damage them. Each breakable object has a health value and a required damage threshold, which encourages the player to upgrade tools and revisit earlier areas once stronger equipment is available.

Dysmantle begins after the player character leaves an underground shelter following years of isolation. The outside world has collapsed, and the island is inhabited by hostile creatures rather than human survivors. The player must scavenge the remains of civilization, craft equipment, and explore the island in search of a way to escape.

The story is delivered through exploration, radio broadcasts, notes, environmental details, and quests. Critics noted that the narrative is relatively light compared with the game's crafting and exploration systems.

Dysmantle was announced by 10tons in January 2019 as an open-world action role-playing game planned for PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Nintendo Switch. The game entered Steam Early Access on November 6, 2020.

The full version was released for Windows and macOS through Steam and GOG on November 16, 2021. PlayStation and Xbox versions followed on January 19, 2022. The Nintendo Switch version was released on March 31, 2022. The iOS version was released on May 19, 2022, and the Android version was released on August 23, 2022.

Dysmantle received generally positive reviews from critics. On Metacritic, the PC version received a score of 77 out of 100, based on three critic reviews.

Daniel Weissenberger of GameCritics scored the game 8 out of 10, praising the hand-crafted open world, progression curve, and the way destructible environments were tied directly into crafting and exploration. He wrote that the narrative was comparatively light but considered the core destruction and crafting loop satisfying.