Though many open-world games are limited in the ways that players can interact with their environment, some of the very best ones actually allow players a huge amount of freedom in doing whatever they want to their surroundings.

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There are so many games that attempt to allow players the ultimate freedom of going anywhere they wish within the boundaries of the open-world map. But few of them are so successful at these, allowing players the ultimate freedom of tearing down everything around them. It is a special circumstance for players to get such complete freedom as taking apart the very pieces making up the surrounding worlds.

6 Minecraft

Minecraft is a game known as being completely destroyable. Down to the very bedrock that makes up the floor of the world, any block that makes up the world players inhabit can be taken apart and put back together in whatever way the player wishes it to be. This is on an incredible scale, a level of freedom that almost no other game in history has managed to provide.

The completely open nature of the world in Minecraft, spanning thirty million blocks in every direction to make it one of the biggest open worlds in gaming, is a huge part of its success. Having become the best-selling game in history, it is unsurprising that Minecraft gives players a level of freedom that makes them feel capable of anything.

5 Just Cause 2

There are few shooter-based games that allow players the freedom to blow up almost anything around them, but Just Cause 2 provided an incredible and unique experience by doing just that. Players were able to find all kinds of things to destroy as they shot their way across maps throughout the game, allowing them to accomplish some ridiculous things.

There were even achievements available in-game for destroying a huge number of items within tight time frames, providing extra incentive for players to destroy as much as possible when they returned for another playthrough of Just Cause 2. While there were some items on the map, including buildings, which weren’t actually destructible, players could still do an unnatural volume of damage throughout the game.

4 Destroy All Humans!

In a game where the player takes control of an alien engaging in an invasion of Earth, it is no surprise that wanton destruction is a big part of the gameplay. Though players start small, on a local farm killing some cows and moving onto farmers, they quickly move up to bigger cities, eventually landing in Washington DC which they have to tear apart.

Related:Open-World Games With The Best CraftingPlayers can’t actually take everything apart in Destroy All Humans, but they can attack anybody on the street and actually kill them, they can tear apart cars, and that’s without the spaceship. While flying in their UFO, players will be able to use their bigger beams to destroy even random buildings that have nothing to do with the game. There are even missions where the goal is simply as much destruction as possible throughout Destroy All Humans.

3 7 Days To Die

7 Days To Die is so scary because it has built a fully destructible map that is infested with zombies who are also able to do things like tear down buildings. This makes the whole idea of safety anywhere in the map a mere temporary fix, leaving players able to destroy almost anything they wish, and allowing zombies to take down some things players won’t wish gone.

This makes 7 Days To Die one of the harder games focusing on zombies, the hordes which hunt players down will slowly take apart much of the world. Making this realistic level of destruction come to life is a hugely impressive feat, and that’s one of the major reasons why 7 Days To Die has become so hugely popular, providing an unusually mature experience for a survival game.

2 Far Cry 2

If players want a ridiculous level of destruction, then any Far Cry game is likely to provide them with the sort of murderous rampage they are looking for. Far Cry 2 is especially fantastic for a few reasons. Not only are players able to blow up all kinds of vehicles with amazingly fun explosions and some crazy physics, but they can also burn everything.

Players are able to set items like trees on fire, and the trees won’t just burn; the fires will spread around the map, burning grass and other surrounding objects. This level of capability for destruction has earned Far Cry 2 a great reputation with gamers who just love to watch the world burn, over and over again, and many of them are still hoping for a remake.

1 Crysis

Improved once again in the remastered edition, the destructible environments of Crysis, and its semi-open-world style are legendary. Another FPS series that gamers start out playing for their ability to murder enemies, many have stayed longer in Crysis because of the volume of destruction they get beyond simple murder.

Players are able to constantly shoot out other objects like trees while aiming at enemies, giving a realistic kind of destruction left in their wake as they travel through the game. Crysis is one of the originators of this level of destruction in a game, and it has been improved on with each updated version. The Crysis franchise has continued to grow in success over the years, and a major part of the reason behind this is the wonderfully destructible environments that have caused gamers to fall in love with the chaotic franchise.

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