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Contraption Maker cover art

Contraption Maker

Kevin Ryan · Top Meadow · 2014-07-07

SteamGOGEpic Games Store

CasualIndieSimulation

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative

Releases: Jul 07, 2014 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

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.

Contraption Maker is a Casual, Indie and Simulation game released in 2014, priced at $12.99, with an estimated 200,000 .. 500,000 owners and a Very Positive review sentiment (91% of 1317 reviews).

9
playing now
91%
positive of 1.3k reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
200,000–500,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
48/100
IGDB user rating (5 ratings)
1
Nexus mods (2 downloads)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$12.99
steam price (US)

9 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 13:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 9 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 30 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~4/week).
  • · Review velocity up 43% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 7% of 29,032 Casual games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-31

Estimated sales: 33k–79k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 1,317 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

GOG$6.49-50%

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $1.04 at Steam (2015-05-11) · bundled 2×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $12.99 · on sale 69 of 91 observed days · $5.45 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
212120172026Week of 2017-11-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2017-12-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2017-12-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2018-01-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-02-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2018-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2018-08-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2018-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-09-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2018-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-11-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 2 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

1852026-09-14 23:00 — 15 players2026-09-16 07:00 — 7 players2026-09-17 14:00 — 9 players2026-09-18 22:00 — 16 players2026-09-20 05:00 — 12 players2026-09-21 13:00 — 8 players2026-09-22 21:00 — 12 players2026-09-24 04:00 — 6 players2026-09-25 12:00 — 7 players2026-09-26 19:00 — 14 players2026-09-28 03:00 — 6 players2026-09-29 10:00 — 8 players2026-09-30 18:00 — 10 players2026-10-02 01:00 — 10 players2026-10-03 09:00 — 12 players2026-10-04 17:00 — 17 players2026-10-06 00:00 — 8 players2026-10-07 08:00 — 9 players2026-10-08 15:00 — 14 players2026-10-09 23:00 — 13 players2026-10-11 06:00 — 12 players2026-10-12 14:00 — 17 players2026-10-13 22:00 — 7 players2026-10-14 13:00 — 9 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
534Sep 2013Aug 2026Sep 2013 — avg 9 · peak 40Jan 2014 — avg 9 · peak 56May 2014 — avg 5 · peak 35Sep 2014 — avg 28 · peak 144Jan 2015 — avg 29 · peak 110May 2015 — avg 34 · peak 88Sep 2015 — avg 19 · peak 41Jan 2016 — avg 25 · peak 65May 2016 — avg 17 · peak 50Sep 2016 — avg 13 · peak 39Jan 2017 — avg 14 · peak 40May 2017 — avg 12 · peak 34Sep 2017 — avg 13 · peak 35Jan 2018 — avg 11 · peak 26May 2018 — avg 10 · peak 21Sep 2018 — avg 8 · peak 22Jan 2019 — avg 9 · peak 22May 2019 — avg 7 · peak 18Sep 2019 — avg 6 · peak 20Jan 2020 — avg 8 · peak 21May 2020 — avg 10 · peak 24Sep 2020 — avg 8 · peak 25Jan 2021 — avg 8 · peak 20May 2021 — avg 7 · peak 18Sep 2021 — avg 9 · peak 20Jan 2022 — avg 9 · peak 20May 2022 — avg 8 · peak 20Sep 2022 — avg 7 · peak 19Jan 2023 — avg 7 · peak 22May 2023 — avg 7 · peak 16Sep 2023 — avg 6 · peak 14Jan 2024 — avg 9 · peak 24May 2024 — avg 7 · peak 18Sep 2024 — avg 9 · peak 20Jan 2025 — avg 10 · peak 20May 2025 — avg 7 · peak 17Sep 2025 — avg 7 · peak 16Jan 2026 — avg 9 · peak 24May 2026 — avg 9 · peak 20Aug 2026 — avg 9 · peak 21
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Price history

$12.99$1.492015-01-012026-10-142015-01-01 — best price $1.492015-07-27 — best price $6.992016-04-25 — best price $6.992017-01-02 — best price $6.992017-11-16 — best price $4.992018-02-19 — best price $8.992018-08-30 — best price $4.992018-12-21 — best price $4.992019-05-10 — best price $4.492019-11-26 — best price $4.992020-03-30 — best price $9.992020-11-02 — best price $9.992021-03-01 — best price $4.992021-10-04 — best price $4.992022-01-14 — best price $4.992022-11-29 — best price $9.992023-05-05 — best price $4.992023-09-01 — best price $9.992023-12-18 — best price $4.992024-03-04 — best price $9.992024-06-20 — best price $4.492024-10-08 — best price $9.992024-11-25 — best price $12.992025-01-14 — best price $4.992025-02-25 — best price $11.992025-04-03 — best price $9.992025-06-16 — best price $12.992025-07-31 — best price $9.992025-09-12 — best price $6.492025-11-05 — best price $12.992026-02-10 — best price $5.992026-04-14 — best price $12.992026-06-08 — best price $12.992026-08-23 — best price $12.992026-09-06 — best price $6.492026-09-16 — best price $6.492026-09-26 — best price $6.492026-10-06 — best price $6.492026-10-14 — best price $6.49
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

22
achievements tracked
50.9%
earned "Puzzle Rookie"
1.8%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSLinuxSingle-playerMulti-playerCo-opOnline Co-opCross-Platform MultiplayerSteam AchievementsSteam Trading CardsSteam WorkshopIncludes level editorRemote Play Together4 DLC

Post-launch support: 4 DLC released, first 2017-12-11, latest 2023-12-28 (Steam store data)

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)5,3403%22

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Player tags

2DCutePuzzlePhysicsSandboxBuildingColorfulLemmingsModdableSimulation

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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Similarity via IGDB.

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