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Contraption Maker
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.
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-10-22 · quoted reviews as of 2026-10-16.
“[Edit: Formatting] If your grew up in the 90s and you had a decent computer, chances are you had played or at least heard of a game called The Incredible Machine. It was a game that asked you to, for example, toast some breads using bombs, lasers, switches, conveyor belts, etc,…”
— a player, Steam review · 19 hrs played“Many years ago, PC gaming was different. Electronic Arts was still the young Anakin Skywalker of gaming, not yet the Darth Vader of corporate exploitation and greed. You had to learn DOS, to manage your EMS and XMS, and to properly set the jumpers of your sound card (if you had…”
— a player, Steam review · 2 hrs played“The classic The Incredible Machine game is getting a reboot! Contraption Maker is played exactly similar to the TIM series. You solve a puzzle by placing certain parts in the work area and try to do things such as popping a balloon, getting a person or mouse home, or even…”
— a player, Steam review · 1,590 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live data self-collected from the Steam API · history through 2026-06 via SteamCharts.
Achievement stats
Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-10-23.
Price tracking
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Latest official news
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High Res Monitor Fixes (and a few other things)
I've made fixes to the code to automatically adjust the size of many of the windows, icons, panels, and text on higher resolution monitors. Should be easy to read/play now on all monitor resolutions.
GUI Improvements (Build 1.4.31)
This new build has quite a few minor GUI improvements: When open a puzzle pack ("Easy Does It", "Piece of Cake", etc.) it'll take you to the first unsolved puzzle in the pack. Level numbers are now sh
A Few Number Blocks Fixes
This is just a quick hotfix which address a couple of small problems with the puzzles and descriptions of the goals. Also fixed a bug where '9' key was being treated like the '8' key in mods.
Number Blocks Release
The New Parts I just released an update (build 1.4.29) that contains the Number Blocks type parts. They all interact with the current Contraption Maker parts. Here they are: Number Blocks -- built in
Working on New Set of Parts
This is just a quick update that I'm working on puzzles for the new batch of parts. Aiming to release these in the first half of June. Here are some of the new parts that'll be in this update:
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-12.
| Genres | Casual, Indie, Simulation |
| Player tags | Puzzle · 2D · Level Editor · Lemmings · Sandbox · Moddable · Online Co-Op · Physics · Family Friendly · Simulation · Building · Programming (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Multi-player · Co-op · Online Co-op · Cross-Platform Multiplayer · Steam Achievements · Steam Trading Cards · Steam Workshop |
| Languages | English * * |
| Achievements | 22 |
| Official site | http://contraptionmaker.com |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: OS *: Windows Vista Processor: 1.7Ghz or Higher Memory: 2 GB RAM Graphics: 512MB VRAM, Pixel Shader 2.0 or higher DirectX: Version 9.0c Storage: 300 MB available space