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Fantastic Contraption
A surreal building game for VR. Create life-sized contraptions as tall as you can reach, then send them whirling, flinging, and trundling off to solve puzzles on the other side of a floating island. There are no right or wrong solutions, so bring your creativity.
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-02 · quoted reviews as of 2026-05-14.
What reviewers agree on
74 of the 103 reviews raise this.
“Fantastic Conraption is an excellent VR game to satisfy your inner engineer. If you don't like to solve mechanical puzzles, I'd stay away, but if you do - this is near perfect. This title manages to have a shallow…”
“Very cool incarnation of the machine building genre. Being able to physically move parts around and assembling stuff in 3D space is something you have to experience for yourself to believe. I highly recommend this as…”
“Pure awesome and a TON of fun in VR! Great party game, fantastic feeling of immersion, and great graphical style. All kinds of cool touches make up the UI in a way never before seen. Put on a helmet to open the menu.…”
17 of the 103 reviews raise this.
“Pure awesome and a TON of fun in VR! Great party game, fantastic feeling of immersion, and great graphical style. All kinds of cool touches make up the UI in a way never before seen. Put on a helmet to open the menu.…”
“Fantastic Contraption headed in the right direction. Puzzle solving and object manipulation are two things that the HTC Vive is exceptional at. Fantastic Contraption takes advantage of this in a largely unfulfilled way.…”
“I've only played for an hour, but I already love this game. I laughed out loud with joy almost every time my contraption made it to the goal. Being able to change the scale feels amazing. You can look down on a…”
16 of the 103 reviews raise this.
“Fantastic Conraption is an excellent VR game to satisfy your inner engineer. If you don't like to solve mechanical puzzles, I'd stay away, but if you do - this is near perfect. This title manages to have a shallow…”
“Challening, fun, quirky and colorful. It's great if you like puzzle solving and building things, but I can't really recommend at this price point of $30. If they dropped the price to $10-20 and you want something that…”
“Note: This is a new account, therefore time stats of this account do not necessarily reflect actual time spent in-game by the Editor or Writer that reviewed it at our publication. Full Review:…”
16 of the 103 reviews raise this.
“Very cool incarnation of the machine building genre. Being able to physically move parts around and assembling stuff in 3D space is something you have to experience for yourself to believe. I highly recommend this as…”
“Overall: great bones, repetitive levels. Maybe buy it on sale. I really wish there was a "recommend, but" or "almost/kind of recommend" option. Much about this game is awesome (one might say fantastic), but the level…”
“So far so good! I enjoyed the flash game years ago, and I'm enjoying this game too! So far I haven't made any complicated contraptions yet, like walkers etc, but it should still be possible. Controls are great except…”
13 of the 103 reviews raise this.
“Pure awesome and a TON of fun in VR! Great party game, fantastic feeling of immersion, and great graphical style. All kinds of cool touches make up the UI in a way never before seen. Put on a helmet to open the menu.…”
“One of the Vive greats. It's great solo and even better with friends taking turns. It's been popular with everyone I've demoed my Vive to, my dad played for well over 2 hours straight on his first time. Fantastic…”
“Note: This is a new account, therefore time stats of this account do not necessarily reflect actual time spent in-game by the Editor or Writer that reviewed it at our publication. Full Review:…”
19 of the 103 reviews raise this · 2 of them still recommend the game.
“Fantastic Contraption is interesting but isn't a "fun" game. If it came with your Vive, great, knock yourself out. The pure experience of playing in virtual reality should be enough to keep you engaged for hours, even…”
“I was pretty excited about this game… and, if you got this game came in the Vive bundle, then it's pretty cool to have just for the experience of building things in Virtual Reality. But I have to say that the purchase…”
“This game is okay, its not a bad game but not a great one either. At first it feels awesome to be building stuff in virtual reality, but you'll quickly get bored because there is only 3 different parts to build with (a…”
16 of the 103 reviews raise this · 7 of them still recommend the game.
“Fantastic Contraption is interesting but isn't a "fun" game. If it came with your Vive, great, knock yourself out. The pure experience of playing in virtual reality should be enough to keep you engaged for hours, even…”
“This game is okay, its not a bad game but not a great one either. At first it feels awesome to be building stuff in virtual reality, but you'll quickly get bored because there is only 3 different parts to build with (a…”
“I wanted to like this game, but it's so boring. From what I've been able to establish, you only have 3 different tools to work with. A wheel and two struts. The most frustrating thing is you start off trying to do it in…”
15 of the 103 reviews raise this · 8 of them still recommend the game.
“Fantastic Contraption is interesting but isn't a "fun" game. If it came with your Vive, great, knock yourself out. The pure experience of playing in virtual reality should be enough to keep you engaged for hours, even…”
“I was pretty excited about this game… and, if you got this game came in the Vive bundle, then it's pretty cool to have just for the experience of building things in Virtual Reality. But I have to say that the purchase…”
“This game is okay, its not a bad game but not a great one either. At first it feels awesome to be building stuff in virtual reality, but you'll quickly get bored because there is only 3 different parts to build with (a…”
12 of the 103 reviews raise this · 4 of them still recommend the game.
“Game feels broken. There is no menu's despite the manual saying to put on a hat? There is no hat? Buttons don't do anything except grab and stop/play. . It feels like something is off or not working. I have an oculus…”
“Similar to 'Bad Piggies' on IOS in principle, but in VR. I thought it'd be a hoot, but I'm just glad that game came for free with my headset. The gameplay is frustrating - you're supposed to assemble contraptions from a…”
“So far so good! I enjoyed the flash game years ago, and I'm enjoying this game too! So far I haven't made any complicated contraptions yet, like walkers etc, but it should still be possible. Controls are great except…”
12 of the 103 reviews raise this · 3 of them still recommend the game.
“Game feels broken. There is no menu's despite the manual saying to put on a hat? There is no hat? Buttons don't do anything except grab and stop/play. . It feels like something is off or not working. I have an oculus…”
“Similar to 'Bad Piggies' on IOS in principle, but in VR. I thought it'd be a hoot, but I'm just glad that game came for free with my headset. The gameplay is frustrating - you're supposed to assemble contraptions from a…”
“4/10 This game is infuriating. I want to love it and have to advise people to stay away. The controls just don't make an ounce of sense. 1) I couldn't do something, checked online and found a bunch of stuff "hidden"…”
Counted across 103 English reviews, sampled to match this game's 77.9% positive rating · as of 2026-05-14
“I'm at a conflict... I can't recommend it for the price. But I got it for free and I do love the game. It feels bare, but the charm comes from the simplicity of it all. And it's easy to look up uploaded solutions and works in progress to draw creativity from others. It really is…”
— a player, Steam review · 9 hrs played“Totally addictive. I have just completed every level, it took me 21 hours. Caroonish styling is appropriate and it really transports you to a world where green shapes float mid air. They should teach this in schools, we'd have a lot more (and better) engineers. Some levels are…”
— a player, Steam review · 271 hrs played“'Fantastic Contraption' is a great puzzle game that is seriously hampered in later levels by many physics, UI, design, and quality issues. These issues are relatively minor, but ultimately extremely frustrating because of how many other things this game does so well. It feels…”
— a player, Steam review · 15 hrs playedAchievement stats
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Latest official news
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2.03 - Bindings update
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CHEAPER BIGGER FASTER STRONGER
Fantastic Contraption version 2.0 is now live! Happy Valentine’s day, Neko loves you! http://cdn.edgecast.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/12132634/91083fe75de8d14bac338c9a547b5b5eeb
CHEAPER BIGGER FASTER STRONGER
Fantastic Contraption version 2.0 is now live! Happy Valentine’s day, Neko loves you! http://cdn.edgecast.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/12132634/91083fe75de8d14bac338c9a547b5b5eeb
1.6.5
It's been a few months but we haven't been resting! This update brings a whole ton of bug fixes, performance improvements, and a whole boatload of new language support. We've even included a new speci
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Screenshots
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Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-14.
| Genres | Indie, Simulation, Strategy |
| Player tags | VR · Puzzle · Strategy · Physics · Building · Level Editor · Puzzle-Platformer · Immersive Sim · Simulation · 3D · First-Person · Sci-fi (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Steam Achievements · Tracked Controller Support · VR Only · Steam Trading Cards · Captions available · VR Support · Steam Workshop |
| Languages | English * , Japanese, Simplified Chinese, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Arabic, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese - Portugal, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Swedish, Traditional Chi… |
| Achievements | 12 |
| Official site | http://fantasticcontraption.com |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS *: Windows 7+ Processor: Intel Core i5 4590 equivalent or greater Memory: 8 GB RAM Graphics: Nvidia GeForce GTX 970/AMD Radeon R9 290 equivalent or greater DirectX: Version 11 Storage: 750 MB available space VR Support: SteamVR