Contraption maker review series#

The Linux version also seems to work perfectly! Suitable for young and old alike, this is an essential game to have if you like silly physics puzzle games. You can even create contraptions together online, which sounds pretty amusing. It has 200+ puzzles, Steam Workshop where you can make and share your own puzzles and some of what the community has created is damn impressive too. I found that testing a partially built contraption will often spark a eureka moment to help you finish it off once you see how everything else runs. There’s usually more than one way to solve a puzzle, which allows a bit of freedom in how you test it. There’s a lot of tutorial puzzles to ease you into it, but seriously don’t be fooled by them, later on it requires some reasonable critical thinking and problem solving skills as some of them can be a bit of a brain twister. As expected, it starts off incredibly easy as it introduces more types of objects and later gains some real difficulty. It has lasers, dynamite, rocket ships, balloons, timed bombs, you name it.

Contraption maker review series#

However, to power that conveyor belt you might need another series of events, like another conveyor belt to drop something onto a switch and so on. It’s bonkers most of the time, like powering up a conveyor belt to move a bowling ball, which then falls off onto some scissors, which cuts a rope to let a balloon fly away.

Obviously with improved graphics and physics to make it more suitable for a modern audience.ĭespite the childish looks, it’s actually a rather clever (and completely silly) puzzle game about building a machine to fit a particular task, so think of it like making lots of a Rube Goldberg machines. The game is actually made by some of the original team behind the first Incredible Machine game from the ‘90’s, which is why it’s essentially a spiritual successor. YouTube videos require cookies, you must accept their cookies to view.