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Crazy Machines cover art

Crazy Machines

Fakt Software · Viva Media · 2008-12-12

Steam

CasualStrategy

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Bird view / Isometric

Releases: Apr 09, 2009 (iOS), Oct 10, 2008 (Nintendo DS), Oct 2005 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Jun 14, 2011 (Wii), Oct 2005 (Mac)

Turn the crank, rotate the gears, push the levers, Use the catapult, explode it, or fly it...From grilling sausages with a pulley, gears, rubberbands and a candle to firing a cannon with a basketball, these wacky brain-teasers will light up your imagination with creative and addictive fun.

Crazy Machines is a Casual and Strategy game released in 2008, priced at $9.99, with an estimated 50,000 to 100,000 owners and a Very Positive review sentiment (82% of 204 reviews).

0
playing now
82%
positive of 204 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
50,000–100,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
53/100
critic score (1 outlets, IGDB)
66/100
IGDB user rating (16 ratings)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$9.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 19:00 UTC (census sample)

Crazy Machines is a puzzle video game created by German studio FAKT Software. Crazy Machines based many of its ideas on The Incredible Machine series of games. The player is given a set of mechanical components to construct a Rube Goldberg-style or Heath Robinson-style intricate machine to solve a goal and advance to the next puzzle in the game.

Health check

Quiet
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 9 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 10% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 21% of 29,056 Casual games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-01

Estimated sales: 8.2k–16k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 204 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $1.94 at IndieGala Store (2014-01-20) · bundled 3×via IsThereAnyDeal

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
4420142026Week of 2014-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2014-12-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2015-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2015-06-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2015-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

302026-09-15 04:00 — 0 players2026-09-16 12:00 — 0 players2026-09-17 20:00 — 1 players2026-09-19 03:00 — 0 players2026-09-20 11:00 — 0 players2026-09-21 19:00 — 3 players2026-09-23 02:00 — 0 players2026-09-24 10:00 — 0 players2026-09-25 17:00 — 2 players2026-09-27 01:00 — 0 players2026-09-28 08:00 — 0 players2026-09-29 16:00 — 1 players2026-09-30 23:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 07:00 — 0 players2026-10-03 14:00 — 3 players2026-10-04 22:00 — 0 players2026-10-06 06:00 — 0 players2026-10-07 13:00 — 0 players2026-10-08 21:00 — 0 players2026-10-10 04:00 — 0 players2026-10-11 12:00 — 1 players2026-10-12 20:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 03:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 19:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
50Jul 2012Oct 2025Jul 2012 — avg 2 · peak 8Nov 2012 — avg 1 · peak 4Mar 2013 — avg 1 · peak 6Jul 2013 — avg 1 · peak 6Nov 2013 — avg 1 · peak 6Mar 2014 — avg 4 · peak 13Jul 2014 — avg 3 · peak 10Nov 2014 — avg 1 · peak 5Mar 2015 — avg 1 · peak 5Jul 2015 — avg 1 · peak 5Nov 2015 — avg 1 · peak 9Mar 2016 — avg 1 · peak 10Jul 2016 — avg 1 · peak 6Nov 2016 — avg 1 · peak 7Mar 2017 — avg 2 · peak 9Jul 2017 — avg 1 · peak 6Nov 2017 — avg 1 · peak 10Mar 2018 — avg 1 · peak 6Jul 2018 — avg 1 · peak 4Nov 2018 — avg 1 · peak 4Mar 2019 — avg 1 · peak 13Jul 2019 — avg 1 · peak 6Nov 2019 — avg 1 · peak 5Mar 2020 — avg 1 · peak 5Jul 2020 — avg 1 · peak 5Nov 2020 — avg 1 · peak 4Mar 2021 — avg 1 · peak 6Jul 2021 — avg 1 · peak 5Feb 2022 — avg 2 · peak 8Aug 2022 — avg 2 · peak 5Mar 2023 — avg 1 · peak 4Oct 2025 — avg 2 · peak 4
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Price history

$17.10$1.992015-01-012025-08-162015-01-01 — best price $2.492015-05-15 — best price $17.102015-09-28 — best price $2.492016-03-03 — best price $3.492016-07-15 — best price $3.382016-11-07 — best price $3.392017-02-01 — best price $9.992017-07-05 — best price $9.992017-11-04 — best price $1.992018-06-22 — best price $4.992019-07-09 — best price $9.992020-05-29 — best price $8.992020-06-16 — best price $8.992020-07-05 — best price $8.992020-07-23 — best price $8.992020-08-10 — best price $8.992020-08-29 — best price $8.992020-09-16 — best price $8.992020-10-07 — best price $8.992020-10-25 — best price $8.992020-11-13 — best price $8.992020-12-01 — best price $8.992020-12-19 — best price $8.992021-01-06 — best price $8.992021-01-24 — best price $8.992021-02-11 — best price $8.992021-03-03 — best price $8.992021-03-21 — best price $8.992021-04-08 — best price $8.992021-04-26 — best price $8.992021-05-14 — best price $8.992021-06-01 — best price $8.992021-10-11 — best price $8.992024-08-02 — best price $8.992025-08-16 — best price $8.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

52132026-06-01 — 18 pageviews2026-06-05 — 24 pageviews2026-06-09 — 26 pageviews2026-06-13 — 20 pageviews2026-06-17 — 26 pageviews2026-06-21 — 14 pageviews2026-06-25 — 28 pageviews2026-06-29 — 21 pageviews2026-07-03 — 27 pageviews2026-07-07 — 52 pageviews2026-07-11 — 27 pageviews2026-07-15 — 27 pageviews2026-07-19 — 22 pageviews2026-07-23 — 19 pageviews2026-07-27 — 15 pageviews2026-07-31 — 17 pageviews2026-08-04 — 19 pageviews2026-08-08 — 21 pageviews2026-08-12 — 33 pageviews2026-08-16 — 25 pageviews2026-08-20 — 22 pageviews2026-08-24 — 16 pageviews2026-08-28 — 28 pageviews2026-09-01 — 15 pageviews2026-09-05 — 29 pageviews2026-09-09 — 17 pageviews2026-09-13 — 35 pageviews2026-09-17 — 19 pageviews2026-09-21 — 30 pageviews2026-09-25 — 33 pageviews2026-09-29 — 22 pageviews2026-10-03 — 20 pageviews2026-10-07 — 22 pageviews2026-10-11 — 26 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Player tags

CasualPuzzlePhysicsStrategySingleplayer

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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