After 8 years, this bizarre Lego-meets-GTA RP destruction sandbox is now technically one of 2023's highest-rated releases

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After nearly eight years in development, an underground vehicle destruction sandbox called Brick Rigs has completed its long journey to launch, and with tens of thousands of positive reviews it's technically one of the best-rated Steam games of 2023.

Brick Rigs is effectively a Lego game in all but name. You build things out of modular bricks, drop them into an open-ended map, and play around with them. The game features robust physics simulations that let you build loads of moving vehicles up to aerodynamic flying machines like jets and helicopters, and you can blast them apart in impressive fashion thanks to full destruction physics.

To give you a sense of how long Brick Rigs has been around, it was a part of Steam Greenlight before Valve shut that service down. With some time in preliminary development, the game officially went into Early Access in 2016, and in a recent Steam blog developer Fluppisoft said that "after almost 8 years of development, the game is finally in a state where I feel comfortable taking this step."

Brick Rigs left Early Access on July 14, and years' worth of positive user reviews mean that it instantly became one of the top-rated releases of 2023, according to the charts at Steam 250. It's the 30th-best Steam game of 2023, and given the sheer volume of nifty indies released on the platform so far this year, that's impressive. It's all the more impressive given that Fluppisoft is actually just the business name for Lukas Rustemeyer - a German dev who created Brick Rigs solo.

While all the building and physics stuff is cool - especially given the game's Steam Workshop support and the hundreds of thousands of creations available for download - it's not the only reason for Brick Rigs' success. The