The spiritual successor to The Incredible Machine from its original designer and programmer. Play 100s of puzzles. Build and share elaborate contraptions with an huge variety of parts and critters.
Each input wears a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The color is the direction: green raises the score, red lowers it, grey sits neutral. ▼ marks a dock, ? a missing input, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret. These are the inputs and the direction each pushes.
Most players never reach the end. On a 10.3-hour game, that's a lot you pay for and may never use. Steam global achievements
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Worth it · Strategy · 2014
BUY IT.
Yes, worth it at $12.99.
about 10.3h$12.99 (~)
Better value than 98% of Strategy games
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Contraption Maker scores 74/100 on the BANG Score (worth it). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steamBANGERS.com/game/241240/contraption-maker<a href="https://steamBANGERS.com/game/241240/contraption-maker"><img src="https://steambangers.com/api/badge/241240" alt="BANG Score" width="340" height="80"></a>[](https://steamBANGERS.com/game/241240/contraption-maker)The BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It rates value, not taste. Whether it is for you is on you. How the score is computed → Data · updated 6h ago.
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Daily peak concurrent players.Player counts via SteamSpy.
Low $6.49High $12.99Now $12.99
Price line + bands by tier:Worth itPrice history via IsThereAnyDeal.
The lowest price on record is $1.04, set in May 2015. It has been discounted 103 times in the 13 years tracked here, typically at 50 percent off, with about 6 weeks between sales.
Steam's global achievement data says about 1 percent of players ever finish it. On a 10.3-hour game, that is a lot of paid-for hours most people never see.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).