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Games Like 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.
Best games like Contraption Maker
The best games like Contraption Maker are Garry's Mod, Opus Magnum, Escape Simulator, Infinifactory, and MakeRoom. GAMESLIKE ranks these alternatives using shared gameplay metadata, Steam review sentiment, and similarity signals. Evidence includes 93% positive across 890 Steam reviews, Steam genre and tag overlap across Casual, Indie, Simulation, platform support for Windows, macOS, and Linux, and $12.99 pricing signal.

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Play over 200 official puzzles and over 1,000 user created puzzles in the Workshop.

Use the many characters that interact in amusing ways.

Play online to build contraptions together with up to 8 players in the Maker Lab.

Make your own games with the built-in JavaScript Editor using Contraption Maker's physics and parts.

Build your own ingenious contraptions and puzzles and share them.

Create your own Cheese Factory or anything else that you can imagine.

You can make large elaborate endless machines.
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