10 Games With Mind-Blowing PHYSICS EFFECTS 

I honestly think that most AAA games are pretty static nowadays. You'd think that destruction would've evolved until now but games like Red Faction Guerrilla or Battlefield Bad Company 2 are still pretty unique despite their age.

Hi GameRanx, thanks for all the kind words about Instruments of Destruction! Truly honored to be on the list. One more detail that might be of interest: I also worked on Red Faction Guerrilla for 5 years (lead technical designer).

Control is such a great game and absolutely deserved to be on this list

control was a amazing game and i can`t wait for the sequel

Control is probably the only game I can play repeatedly without getting bored of it. The random encounters that are always different. The destruction. The crazy plot. It's just too good.

When I first pulled a block of concrete off a pillar in Control my eyes popped. A small detail, but for me, made a huge difference. Truly felt like anything built could to some extent be turned into a weapon.

Teardown also has great fire and smoke physics. The way the smoke can build up, and seep through tiny gaps is cool.

In Control, not only are the physics incredible, but every single item, down to a piece of paper, is INCREDIBLE detailed. It's fun just walking around and seeing how detailed everything is.

I'm actually surprised Outer Wilds isn't on this list. That game basically simulates a miniature solar system with all the orbital physics and (fictional) quantum physics! Love that game.

Wreckfest has soft body physics and is pretty damn fun

Im glad that Teardown made it in the video however I think too much emphasis was placed on it being a heist game. While the campaign is like that, you can also play all the maps in sandbox mode with infinite ammunition, etc. Also the game's modding community is core to the game. The developers promote modding and there are many terrific mods available to download on the steam workshop.

I love the concept of Snow Runner. I still can't believe this a game.

Noita deserved a spot on this list. Impressive and unique.

need a 10 games with mindblowing PHYSIQUES 👀

Dishonored! Felt like a playground for otherworldly powers and weapons, plus the art direction works so well with world and physics

HL2, GTA IV and BeamNG are very notable for me

I disagree with Falco saying teardown has basic graphics. Sure, it's voxel based, with blocky textures, but the lighting, reflections, bloom and all the other effects? Top notch!

I remember playing soldier of fortune 23 years ago, that was mind-blowing. It was such an amazing experience, it was wild 😍

BeamNG simulates every moving part of the vehicle and it's wildly impressive. Over the years they've made the driving feel pretty good too

game physics is one of the coolests things for me and I wish modern games would work less on better grafics and more on game physics

I was expecting games like Titanfall 2 and other AAA games but these ones are truly gems

surprised that Portal 2 didn't make this list. Crazy physics in that game especially for its old age

Who needs a degree in physics when you have these games?

I always though the Mercenaries series was super cool that you could ACTUALLY destroy buildings and bridges. I used to just go around as a kid and destroy Everything for fun.

A couple other noteworthy physics games are Crysis(needs no explanation) and Cellfactor Revolution. Cellfactor was a game that showed off the power of Physx physics processing units(PPU) before Nvidia bought Aegia. That game's physics were streets ahead.

It hasn't aged well but the OG soft body physics game for me was Destruction Derby. It blew my mind how awesome crashing in that game was

I’d give a mention to Crash N’ Burn. Its basically the game Burnout tried to copy and made a worse version of. Basically a racing/demolition derby type game, with surprisingly good car customizations, and fantastic destruction physics! But not only that, it is OLD, like early OG xbox/PS2 era. When you go that far back, destruction and physics in general is usually quite lacking, but not in Crash N’ Burn. Physics was the main selling feature! There might be one or two games older than it that might have somewhat comparable physics, but it’d be hella close. Basically the grandfather of car destruction.

Damn that Beam NG Drive game really is shockingly realistic. Never seen metallic surfaces behave so fluidly like a real metal object in a game before.

Control, Beam NG and Red Faction: Guerilla have some pretty cool destruction physics. I also think the physics still hold up pretty well in GTA IV.

Besiege was such a cool little game! Some of the community stuff people came up with was mind blowing… Red faction still holds up so well! Great list gameranx 💙

I feel like Falcon put a little extra love into this one. Some of the games he mentioned are really niche and incredibly impressive.

All the crazy violent animations in TLOUP2!!

Being able to destroy the environment is so underrated

No Just Cause ?

The first time I picked up a beer bottle in Half Life Alyx and watched the liquid sloshing inside my brain melted a little bit.

0:03 the pistol shots lining up with the beat was actually pretty slick

Hey Falcon and the Gameranx team! Amazing content by the way. Please keep up with the good work 💪🏾

Battle field 4 is a great example of realistic physics, the way you can destroy thing and they will just crumble is always cathartic for me, especially the huge tower that you can blow up that covers the map in dust after it falls.

How could you not include H3VR? It may not be as well-known as Alyx, but it's got the best game physics I've ever seen. The gun handling are just phenomenal with the realism.

The physics demo of the original Red Faction blew my mind when I was a kid. It was just a room where you could destroy the walls and make tunnels and I must have played that one room for hours as a kid

I always love hearing your commentary Falcon, gameranx is probably one of the only consistent video game channels with good content and news.

If anyone is interested in seeing crazy Besieged content, Draegast covers so many community creations, especially the pc breaking transformers types

Stormworks should've made the list. Not just for the wave/water or wind/flying physics. But the engine and vehicle building dynamics are unreal on their own

It's nice to see Snowrunner getting some love!

Just got my 2nd Control platinum ☺️

Returnal’s particle physics engine is nuts.

Should've mentioned the unlimited possibility in BeamNG with mod support, and doing everything you'd like to do with cars.

The first Red Faction was the best one. You could mine almost eternity in the terrain on the maps. You could did insanely long tunnels or blow up large terrain bridges. The later games focused more on building demolition and not terrain destruction. Something that made the first game awesome.

Funnily enough, The Finals is in closed beta now (I think)! JackFrags did a video on it, it looks incredibly fun! Apparently made by ex-Battlefield and Battlefront devs.

Control was lit

im so glad you talked about Control. its by far my favorite game. if youre reading this, please give it a shot especially if youre into SCP and HP lovecraft/ eldritch abstract horror

Watching Falcon speaking about SnowRunner, one my favorite games of all time, just made my day!

i hope more games would be like this with good gore physics

There's a new game coming out soon called The Finals that has really cool environmental destruction. Worth checking out!

SO happy to see Control in here - completed it when it came out and have been replaying it on PS5 again the last couple of weeks. The atmosphere still feels mesmerising to me, it really nails an uncanny kind of feeling. One of my fav games ever honestly and the level of destruction and debris still feels next gen, hardly seen anything else like it. Fantastic game!

I loved Hydrophobia. It has the best water physics i have ever seen in a game. Have never seen a game having the same level of water physics since. Good story. And if you have claustrophobia, you will be scared out of your mind.

Besieged only reminds me of Markiplier lmao NOTA-PEN-IS is the most useful machine of destruction 🤣🤣🤣

It's a damn shame we didn't get a sequel to Control. I loved the premise. And Hydrophobia was kind of cool.

Other honourable mentions: Alone in the Dark and Far Cry 2 for fire physics, Virtua Fighter and Tomb Raider II for hair physics on extremely early 3d engines, Jagged Alliance 2 and Silent Storm for early examples of fantastic destruction physics, Sea of Thieves for ocean physics, GTA IV for euphoria, water and vehicle/damage physics, Banjo Kazooie nuts and bolts for being one of the first games to actually try believable vehicle building physics and Crysis because Crysis.

I remember playing red faction guerrilla for years, nothing matched the way everything was able to be destroyed. Even got the remastered version. I wish there was another open world red faction with the stunning destruction that comes with the series. They're truly beautiful games for what they are

I'm surprised teardown wasn't number one on the list, and I played most of the games listed. It's the most impressive I've seen so far. Why was breath of the wild even on this list? It barely has physics at all! Did you use ChatGTP to make this list or is someone just terrible at their job?

Where is Gmod?? Explain yourself Falcon!

Hidden gem Paper Beast has some of the coolest water and landspacing physics using sand, wind, heat and ice.

Haven't you considered "Outer Wilds"? How gravity works and the handle of the ship is just amazing.

Fear, Max payne (all of them), gta 4, Battlefield bc 2, 3 and 4. 🙄

Anyone else on the toilet?

That Besiege would be such a good game in VR (in a MOSS kind of setup). Making the machines with your hands! I can see that getting incredibly addictive. Also, I’m getting this game anyway, never heard of it, looks ace, thanks.

Gravity Rush's flying mechanics as "falling" was a great spin on the super power. likewise, controlling gravity was cool. the whole game had a great feeling of motion as you "fell" across around the map along with other abilities.

I love these "Falcon Explains" videos. I've done a marathon of them. I still get nostalgic tingles when he first introduces himself as "Falcon".

I know it's not out yet but I'm surprised 'The Finals' isn't among the bonus games. The destruction physics are incredible, even moreso considering it's multiplayer

Skyrim physics have blown my mind from frustration. I bump into a cart and it goes flying, I kick a potion and it hardly moves.

I'm SHOCKED Boneworks or Bonelabs wasn't on this list! I love half life alyx, but Boneworks has the best physics of any game I've ever played. 100/10 worth checking out.

I remember seeing a video where the creator simulated real world footage of crashes in BeamNG and the simulation was ridiculously similar to what happened irl.

I'd love to see a video on games with the best cloth physics. Not enough people praise cloth physics when they're great and so it feels like developers have kinda just done the bare minimum in alot of games nowadays.

OMG Hardspace! Massively sick game, so happy to see it still getting love

I would have thought Outer Wilds would be here. Heard so many good things about it and that you shouldn't watch anything about it but play it instead. I guess that's why its not here so it doesn't spoil anything about it. A friend told me that one of her friends bought the game for someone else to play and had them stream it so they could experience the game again.

Glad Red Faction was included, that entire series was amazing and innovative with its Geo-Mod technology. Even the first on still hasn’t been matched for its freedom of destruction, I think.

Hope such physics gets implemented more in upcoming games. Especially race ones

One old goodie that should be mentioned is Cryostasis: Sleep of Reason. Survival horror before that genre was even brought to the surface. Back then absolutely balls to the walls physics as it was PhysX techdemo for liquid physics and it's beautiful in that. Also just the mechanics around cold and warm are so well done it is a shame it got medicore reviews and never even got any cult following even.

Snowrunner is great. Lost 2 years to that one. And I still play it every once and a while

The original Stuntman on the PS2 was like witch craft. It deserves more love.

Even after all these years, nothing tops the feeling of dropping a building on a squad in Bad Company 2.

This is one of your guys best lists IMO. I agree and love all the games I have played on this list. We need more games like this. I'm thinking RFG in control universe with beam ng car physics would be the best game ever made. Great video guys!

Maybe the physics weren't the key, but the destructible environments of Mercenaries 2 were the only thing that made the game playable - and it was so satisfying to bring down an entire block.

Control's destruction is incredibly satisfying! It's so fun when there's debris flying all over the place in a chaotic battle.

I'd like to mention TT Isle of Man Ride on the Edge 2. Most immersive sense of speed I've felt on a console. Punishing/rewarding physics with an awesome career mode on real road racing bikes. Perhaps the followup to Polyphony's Tourist Trophy we deserved... eyes on TT IOM rote 3 this year :)

My first, and favourite moment with physics in a PC game was in X-Com Apocalypse. There were missions where you had to enter residential buildings and clear out the hostile aliens. After a while, you could unlock technology that was strong enough to destroy the supports of these buildings. Destroy enough of them and everything crashes down. Terrible rep, fun demolition.

Ngl thankyou for not being a money hungry youtuber pushing sponsored content, people like me pay for premium to avoid ads and people like you deserve more

lets not forget the game Black from 2006 developed by Criterion Games and published by Electronic Arts it was crazy at the time

Superliminal's perspective based physics while simple did infact blow my mind.

God I want another Red Faction game. I remember when I played the orginal game and being blown away. That glass house/barn demo thing they had was great too.

- Noita: Every pixel has its own physics - The Finals: Upcoming multiplayer game with full server-side destruction (Skill Up has a good video)

The community behind teardown blows my mind the things people build on there are just amazing

I'm missing Just Cause 3 and The Force Unleashed!

I was happy to hear the shout out for Half Life 2, that game was the OG mind blowing physics showcase. Half Life Alyx more than deserves it's spot on this list too.

snow runner is the funnest driving game i’ve ever played. the mods and realism of the physics is what makes snow runner one of the best out there. the size of the game too is insane.

Of Course The Finals had to show up while you were editing this video. When first Red Faction was released I was blown away by the world destruction in that too. Great list of games here.

I love this list, def gonna check some of them out!

This was a great one. I learned about a bunch of new titles. Thanks! 🙏

The Finals deserves an honorable mention.