Crazy Machines
Fair · Strategy · 2008
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $9.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 6.1h 6.7h to 100%
- Value
- $1.64/hr
- Reviews
- 82% of 204 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
Not discounted in any of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 2660 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
About the game
Turn the crank, rotate the gears, push the levers, Use the catapult, explode it, or fly it...From grilling sausages with a pulley, gears, rubberbands and a candle to firing a cannon with a basketball, these wacky brain-teasers will light up your imagination with creative and addictive fun.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 123 MB of memory, DirectX 8 compatible graphics card with 32 MB RAM (TNT 2 or comparable), 61 MB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
It has been discounted 32 times in the 14 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 66 percent, about 8 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 380 weeks ago.
On value it sits in the top 15 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 71 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 78 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Crazy Machines 3 ($0.99, scores 92) beats it on value, while it beats The Howler (free, scores 47).
What players say
It's 50/50 whether it's possible to kill the process via Task Manager after Alt+Tab. You should add achievements for this price and fix the Alt+Tab bug, guys. I hope you all get syphilis and HIV
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 scores 52/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 20, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/18420/crazy-machinesReviews 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 30, price as of Oct 19. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.