Fantastic Contraption

Northway Games / Apr 5, 2016 / Indie, Simulation, Strategy

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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.

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What's new

2.03 - Bindings update

2020-04-10

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 ever so long is still available in the builds panel as 2.02

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What players say

Mostly Positive

78% positive, 240 reviews

Not recommended15 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 GREAT to just start grabbing pieces and building a contraption. The actual physical movements are intuitive, for the most part. When...

136 found this helpful, 2016-06-02

Not recommended4 hrs played

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 if you aren't really having "fun". Otherwise, the asking price is outrageous and you should wait until it's on a deep sale. Where the game falters is in the extremely limited pool of parts to build...

217 found this helpful, 2016-04-07

Not recommended1 hrs played

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 rift which is stated as compatible.. but I can't access options, settings, level select so i can skip starting over each time the game starts. A menu did pop up randomly once and it was the most...

6 found this helpful, 2021-02-20