Crazy Machines 3
Worth it · Strategy · 2016
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
WAIT.
Worth it today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 90% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$9.99Worth it
Typical seasonal cut
$0.9990% offBANGER
- Cost per hour▼
- $1.35/hr
- ReviewsS
- 94% of 10,112
- Critics
- 71 players 23 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 1% Strategy
Holding it back: Cost per hour
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at $0.99 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 7.4h
- To 100%
- 20.7h 2.8x the story
- Achievements
- 41
Price and sales
- Sales
- 102 on record
- Typical cut
- 90% off
- Steam low
- $0.99 April 2020
- Sale every
- 33d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 9 now
- Cheaper than
- 29% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 98% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
80% start to 2% rarestThis site could not identify an ending achievement for this game, so there is no finish rate. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
102 discounts in the 10 years on record, a median of 90 percent off across all of them, roughly 5 weeks apart. It becomes a BANGER at $8.84, a level the record has reached 90 times.
Against its own genre its score lands in the top 1 percent. It is pricier than 71 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 98 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Bridge Constructor Portal ($9.99, scores 84) beats it on value, while it beats Gunsmith ($19.99, scores 19).
More about Crazy Machines 3
Critics scored it 71. Players sit 23 points higher at 94 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.
2 of the 642 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 93 percent of the 3,665 reviews written there were positive, against 94 percent overall, and those are 49 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 7.4 hours. Doing everything runs 21, 2.8 times as long.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Last discount ended 12 days ago.
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
About the game
Crazy Machines 3 is the latest, greatest, most amazing and craziest part of the series and fascinates once more with physic-based puzzles. Build your own crazy machines and share your awesomeness across the world thanks to the Steam® Workshop.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, 512 MB VRAM, DirectX-11 compatible, 6 GB of storage. Windows only.
Cite this score
Crazy Machines 3 scores 83/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/351920/crazy-machines-3Reviews 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 Oct 13, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.