Crazy Machines 2
Skip · Strategy · 2008
The verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 0, under the fair line, at $9.99.
- Length
- 22h
- Value
- $0.45/hr
- Reviews
- 48% of 261 positive
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Buy now or wait
Not discounted in any of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 2659 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
How to read this
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About the game
Crazy Machines 2 is packed with all new features to help you create your wackiest "Rube Goldberg-style" contraptions yet! All new elements, plus an amazing 3D physics engine lets you craft even more complex gadgets and effects.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory, DirectX 9 compliant card NVIDIA GeForce 6600 series or ATI Radeon X700 or higher, 502 MB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
33 discounts in the 14 years on record, a median of 66 percent off across all of them, roughly 8 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 380 weeks ago.
It is pricier than 71 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 98 percent. Crazy Machines 3 ($0.99, scores 92) outscores it, and so does The Howler (free, scores 47). Both sit among its closest neighbours.
More about Crazy Machines 2
72 on Metacritic, 48 percent from players. A gap this way round is usually launch damage or a slow decline.
What players say
The game is fundamentally Physics based, but plenty of the missions are not correct, the modern computers run too smoothly and most seeds don't lead to the correct path that was only available with a poor computer placing objects in different places even if it affects nothing of the setup, changes the seed of the physics, leading to incorrect results. missions with very specific tasks become impossible even with the...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Glitches, broken physics make this game unplayable nowadays. I loved it on Windows 95 but sadly it doesn't work any more. Don't buy!
Amazing game, definitely worth the money. I realty enjoy it and it's quite a brain teaser, especially those space levels. Just install the "NVIDIA PhysX System Software 8.09.04" to fix the problem with unsolvable maps. The "Nvidia PhysX" as been updated since the game was launched (15 years ago) causing some things to behave differently than they're expected.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
Crazy Machines 2 scores 0/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/18400/crazy-machines-2Reviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 29, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.