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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 SteamSpy 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 playedLatest official news
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2.03 - Bindings update
This build has been sitting on the 'Experimental' branch for a looooong time waiting for me to get out some of the hardware I don't use very regularly. The previous 'classic' version that's been up ev
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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
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
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 |
| Estimated owners | 0 – 20,000 (SteamSpy) |
| 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