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Fantastic Contraption cover art

Fantastic Contraption

Northway Games · 2016-04-05

SteamPlayStation Store

IndieSimulationStrategy

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: First person, Virtual Reality

Releases: Jul 10, 2017 (PlayStation 4), Apr 05, 2016 (SteamVR), Apr 05, 2016 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

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.

78%
positive of 271 reviews
Mostly Positive
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
67/100
critic score (2 outlets, IGDB)
70/100
IGDB user rating (0 ratings)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unsupported
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
$19.99
steam price (US)
Fantastic Contraption is a room scale virtual reality video game for the HTC Vive and PlayStation VR in which players construct machines from building materials to meet challenges. It was released at the HTC Vive's launch on April 5, 2016 and was released for PlayStation VR in July 2017.

Health check

Quiet
  • · 5 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity up 0% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 32% of 30,273 Indie games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 6.8k–16k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 271 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $5.99 at Steam (2022-12-22) · bundled 1×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $19.99 · on sale 6 of 12 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
3320162025Week of 2016-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2017-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$39.99$5.992016-04-062026-08-172016-04-06 — best price $39.992016-11-29 — best price $29.992017-04-07 — best price $26.992017-09-07 — best price $26.992017-12-21 — best price $14.992018-04-04 — best price $19.992018-08-30 — best price $14.992018-11-21 — best price $12.992019-01-24 — best price $19.992019-05-10 — best price $9.992019-07-09 — best price $19.992019-11-21 — best price $9.992020-01-02 — best price $19.992020-01-27 — best price $19.992020-05-11 — best price $19.992020-08-10 — best price $19.992020-12-22 — best price $9.992021-02-15 — best price $19.992021-08-02 — best price $9.992021-11-01 — best price $19.992022-01-27 — best price $7.992022-06-24 — best price $7.992022-09-06 — best price $19.992022-11-18 — best price $9.992023-01-05 — best price $19.992023-07-05 — best price $7.992023-09-05 — best price $19.992023-12-21 — best price $5.992024-03-07 — best price $9.992024-06-27 — best price $5.992024-11-04 — best price $19.992024-12-05 — best price $7.992025-02-10 — best price $19.992025-09-29 — best price $5.992026-04-06 — best price $19.992026-08-10 — best price $9.992026-08-17 — best price $19.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

1302026-06-23 — 4 pageviews2026-06-26 — 10 pageviews2026-06-29 — 5 pageviews2026-07-02 — 12 pageviews2026-07-05 — 3 pageviews2026-07-08 — 6 pageviews2026-07-11 — 4 pageviews2026-07-14 — 4 pageviews2026-07-17 — 3 pageviews2026-07-20 — 4 pageviews2026-07-23 — 3 pageviews2026-07-26 — 8 pageviews2026-07-29 — 5 pageviews2026-08-01 — 1 pageviews2026-08-04 — 4 pageviews2026-08-07 — 4 pageviews2026-08-10 — 3 pageviews2026-08-13 — 5 pageviews2026-08-16 — 3 pageviews2026-08-19 — 2 pageviews2026-08-22 — 4 pageviews2026-08-25 — 4 pageviews2026-08-28 — 3 pageviews2026-08-31 — 1 pageviews2026-09-03 — 3 pageviews2026-09-06 — 4 pageviews2026-09-09 — 11 pageviews2026-09-12 — 5 pageviews2026-09-15 — 5 pageviews2026-09-18 — 5 pageviews2026-09-19 — 8 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

12
achievements tracked
52.6%
earned "Lean Over"
0.2%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsTracked Controller SupportVR OnlySteam Trading CardsCaptions availableVR SupportSteam WorkshopSteamVR CollectiblesSteam Cloud

19 supported languages: English, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Arabic, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Korean…

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)2,2390%12
PS4 (PlayStation)1621%12
Windows (Xbox)1619%12

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

Player tags

3DVRLogicPuzzleSci-fiPhysicsBuildingRelaxingStrategyAutomation

Census log

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

Players also track

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Similarity via IGDB.

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