Games like Contraption Maker
If Contraption Maker is your kind of game, the closest matches are Gravity, Restitched and Crapht Box — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its cozy, nostalgic and relaxing. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →About 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.
Players who liked Contraption Maker also play
Steam players who put hours into Contraption Maker also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.
Gravity
WHY THIS
Top pick for Contraption Maker fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Contraption Maker.
Welcome to the world of Gravity! 100 levels of physics and logic await you. Solve puzzles, place blocks, and enjoy completing each level!
Restitched
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Contraption Maker fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Contraption Maker.
Join Stuffy on a charming platforming adventure as they "restitch" unraveled communities. Unleash your creativity with a robust 2.5D level editor, play dress up with a powerful mix-and-match Wardrobe, and share your creations via Steam Workshop!
Crapht Box
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Contraption Maker fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Contraption Maker.
Crapht Box is a Fantasy Physics Sandbox, inspired by the Fantasy Console genre. It brings a simulated world with a number of disks and tools, and leaves you to play, program, create and share disks.
Logic World
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Contraption Maker.
Ranked #4 for Contraption Maker fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Contraption Maker.
Invent a new computer! Logic World is a first-person sandbox simulation game that's all about digital logic. Play alone or with friends, design unique machines, build up layers of complexity, and experience the joy of circuits!
Modbox
WHY THIS
Shares multiplayer sharing, level editor and a whimsical mood with Contraption Maker.
Ranked #5 for Contraption Maker fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Contraption Maker.
Modbox is a multiplayer game creation sandbox for Desktop+VR
Archean
WHY THIS
Shares physics simulation with Contraption Maker.
Ranked #6 for Contraption Maker fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Contraption Maker.
Gather resources, craft components, build vehicles, and code their logic in a physics-driven engineering sandbox and full scale space sim.
Trainz Railroad Simulator 2022
WHY THIS
Shares a nostalgic mood with Contraption Maker.
Ranked #7 for Contraption Maker fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Contraption Maker.
Drive, Explore, Operate and Create the railroad of your dreams - and now you can collaborate in real time with Multiplayer Surveyor! TRS22 showcases a range of high quality routes, sessions and trains to drive, plus all the scenery you need to make your own masterpiece.
Trainz Plus
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Contraption Maker fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Contraption Maker.
Drive, Explore, Operate and Create the railroad of your dreams - and now collaborate in real time with Multiplayer Surveyor! And with Trainz Plus memberships, you get more content, more features and the latest Trainz has to offer!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Contraption Maker at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Shares a nostalgic mood with Contraption Maker.
Priced ~62% under Contraption Maker on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Contraption Maker.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~62% under Contraption Maker on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Contraption Maker.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~52% under Contraption Maker on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Contraption Maker.
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~62% under Contraption Maker on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Contraption Maker.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
WEBFISHING
WHY THIS
Priced ~62% under Contraption Maker on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Contraption Maker.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~92% under Contraption Maker on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Contraption Maker.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~77% under Contraption Maker on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Contraption Maker.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
OneShot
WHY THIS
Priced ~54% under Contraption Maker on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Contraption Maker.
OneShot is a surreal top down Puzzle/Adventure game with unique gameplay capabilities. You are to guide a child through a mysterious world on a mission to restore its long-dead sun. The world knows you exist.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Contraption Maker.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Contraption Maker.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Contraption Maker.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Contraption Maker.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Contraption Maker.
A twenty-dollar bill, four summers, fifteen years, and a one of a kind life. Create an experience that’s all your own in this near-fully customizable visual novel where you grow from childhood to adulthood with the lonely boy next door.
missed messages.
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Contraption Maker.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
NGU IDLE
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Contraption Maker.
NGU Idle is a Free To Play Idle game that's full of weird humor, tons of upgrades and hundreds of hours of content! Try out NGU Idle today and experience the joy of Numbers Going Up!
Narrow it down
Head-to-head comparisons
Frequently asked about Contraption Maker
- Does Contraption Maker run on Steam Deck?
- Contraption Maker is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does Contraption Maker cost?
- Contraption Maker is listed on Steam at 12.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Contraption Maker have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Contraption Maker supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Cross-Platform Multiplayer, Online Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Contraption Maker?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Contraption Maker are Gravity, Restitched, Crapht Box.
- Who developed Contraption Maker?
- Contraption Maker was developed by Kevin Ryan and published by Top Meadow.
imho.run ranks Steam game alternatives using a mix of collaborative filtering (ALS / iALS / EASE / LightGCN), content scoring over genres, categories, Steam tags, developers, and publishers, plus AI-extracted vibes mined from review text. The page above is generated in seed mode anchored on Contraption Maker.
For library-aware picks tuned to your specific taste, sign in with Steam on the home page.