Free Destruction FPS · Solo and multiplayer · Windows
Matter to build, matter to destroy.
Nothing here is scenery. Every wall, every bridge, every pyramid is made of truly simulated cubes. Plant a charge, fire the cannon, open a black hole: the structure cracks, gives way and really collapses, and every piece of rubble stays on the map.
Build alone or together, then blow it all up. Free, with a Google or Microsoft account.
Game modes
Solo or online, every game leaves the map different: you decide what stays standing.
Hand, pistol, submachine gun, shotgun, cannon, lightsaber and shovel. The cubes you tear off become your ammo: the map itself is your arsenal.
Mystery blocks fall from the sky: a weapon you lack, ammo or a boost. Boosts stack, pushing fire rate, speed and shot size up to ×3.
The impulse explosive blasts everything around it. The black hole pulls matter in for two seconds before it implodes. Plant, step back, enjoy.
Shapes, furniture, decoration, plants, military gear, vehicles, and the shovel to dig: build alone or with friends in the same room.
Up to 4 players per room, in destruction or building, with teams, live scores and a public leaderboard. A free seat? You are in with one click.
Every map is a plain file: edit it, share it, or describe your own in one sentence and let the AI build it for you.
Why Matter World is unique
Our engine simulates the whole map, cube by cube, right on the GPU. The result: destruction that never cheats.
No painted scenery, no pre-baked collapse: terrain, buildings, vehicles and avatars are made of 10 cm cubes, simulated in real time on your graphics card.
Undermine the base of a tower, cut a span: whatever is no longer supported breaks under its own weight, right where it should, and falls.
Like real structures, the Louvre, the Bridges and the fortified valley are split into independent blocks: one pavilion collapses, its neighbour stays up.
Rubble stays, piles up and can be picked up as ammo. Matter is counted all the time: not a single cube is ever lost.
Build the perfect fortress, then switch to destruction and put it to the test, alone or with friends. Then start again.
Your avatar has 300 cubes in 6 parts. A torn-off arm falls and stays on the ground; lose your head or torso and you respawn.
In action
The Bridges
A 28 m gorge, two fortresses and three bridges: a wooden suspension bridge, a two-arch stone bridge and a steel walkway. Blow up a pier: the unsupported span breaks under its own weight and falls to the bottom of the gorge.
Black hole explosive
The charge pulls in the matter around it for two seconds, then implodes. What it tears away turns into debris, which you can pick up as ammo.
Maps
Every map ships with the game, fully destructible from the ground up.
A 28 m gorge, two fortresses and three bridges to cut: suspension, stone and steel.
160 × 89.6 m
Pyramids, Square Court, colonnade, two-level galleries and gardens: the palace, compacted.
204.8 × 115.2 m
Two furnished castles, underground galleries and a three-arch bridge between them.
200 × 100 m
The Selene and Helios bases face to face, a rift and a crashed orbital station.
120 × 120 m · 1.62 m/s²
The Aurora and Horizon bases, split by a massif, with their underground rooms.
120 × 104 m · 3.71 m/s²
Two trench networks, bunkers, barbed wire, tanks and craters.
100 × 80 m
Two wooden medieval estates face to face: keeps, palisades and baileys.
Two 60 × 60 m estates
Maps are plain files. Ask your favourite AI to write one with the guide shipped in the game, or buy AI map credits and simply describe yours: it shows up in “My maps” as soon as it is ready.
Gallery
Images taken from the game, at 1920 × 1080. Click an image to enlarge it.
Your account
Sign in with Google or Microsoft: one account to download, play online and follow your feats.
Games, wins, kills, cubes destroyed: every online game adds to your public profile.
Measure yourself against other players, on every map or on your favourite.
The game is free. AI map credits are on offer, and more items are coming.
Performance
These figures were measured on an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080. They give an order of magnitude, not a guarantee for your setup.
Cube conservation is checked continuously, and hundreds of automated tests make sure, among other things, that no cube passes through a wall.
| Measure | Value |
|---|---|
| Ray-marched rendering | 0.32 to 0.35 ms per frame |
| Simulation, full tick (60 ticks per second) | 0.46 ms at rest, 0.75 to 0.85 ms during fractures |
| Barrage of 2,000 shots into a building | up to about 190,000 dynamic cubes and 100,000 bodies, 1 to 1.5 ms per tick |
| DirectX 12 (FXC compiler) | simulation about 3.4 times slower than under Vulkan |
Requirements
Download
Free: an installer for Windows 10 and 11 (64-bit), no administrator rights needed. Sign in with Google or Microsoft and the button downloads the latest version; the game then updates itself.
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Optional: in PowerShell, compute the SHA-256 of the installer and compare it with the one shown here.
Get-FileHash .\matter-world-setup.exe -Algorithm SHA256The installer is not signed: Windows SmartScreen may show “Windows protected your PC”. Choose “More info”, then “Run anyway”, only for an installer downloaded from this site.
If Windows Auto HDR is on, it overexposes the game. Turn it off for matter-world.exe in Settings → System → Display → Graphics.
FAQ
Yes. Matter World is free; optional purchases, such as AI map credits, are offered in the shop. It is proprietary software published by MethodInfo. Sign in with Google or Microsoft (Hotmail / Outlook) to download it.
Destruction and building, solo or multiplayer (4-player rooms), on seven bundled maps: the Bridges, the Louvre, the fortified valley, the lunar crater, the Martian valley, the fortified front and the two castle mottes, plus your own map files. The game evolves with every release.
You need a Vulkan or DirectX 12 capable card, ideally with 2 GB of free video memory. The game was tested on NVIDIA GeForce cards from the GTX 980 to the RTX 5090; AMD and Intel cards remain to be validated. See the requirements.
No. Only a 64-bit Windows version is offered and tested.
In the game, the “My maps” tab explains both ways: have your favourite AI write the map with the guide provided, or spend your AI map credits by describing the map in a few sentences.
Yes: the installer is not signed, so Windows SmartScreen and some antivirus tools are wary of it. Check the SHA-256 of the installer, then choose “More info” and “Run anyway”. All the details are in the Download section.
First update your graphics driver. If the problem persists, report it to MethodInfo with your graphics card and Windows version.
Windows Settings → Apps → Installed apps → Matter World → Uninstall. Your settings, maps and sign-in (folder %LOCALAPPDATA%\MatterWorld) are kept: delete that folder to erase them too.
The Matter World team
At MethodInfo, we build Matter World around one belief: physics should bring the whole map to life. Every release brings new maps, new tools and new ways to blow everything up.
Download the game, put the engine to the test and share your ideas with our team.