Contraption Maker
Short description
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.
- Developer
- Kevin Ryan
- Publisher
- Top Meadow
- Release
- Mon, Jul 07, 2014
- Price
- $12.99
- Reviews
- 916
- Positive
- 93%
- Followers
- n/a
- Owners (estimated)
- 200K – 500K
- Concurrent players
- 6
- Genres
- Casual, Indie, Simulation
- Features
- Multi-player, Co-op, Online Co-op, Cross-Platform Multiplayer, Steam Trading Cards, Steam Workshop, Includes level editor, Remote Play Together
- Tags
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History
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