Games like Fantastic Contraption
If Fantastic Contraption is your kind of game, the closest matches are Handy Machines VR, The Last Clockwinder and Fantastic Contraption Classic 1 & 2 — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its challenging, contemplative and immersive. 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 Fantastic Contraption: 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.
Players who liked Fantastic Contraption also play
Steam players who put hours into Fantastic Contraption 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.
Handy Machines VR
WHY THIS
Top pick for Fantastic Contraption fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Fantastic Contraption.
Send the balls into the hat. You can go through the levels or create your own ways according to your ideas.
The Last Clockwinder
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Fantastic Contraption.
Second-strongest match for Fantastic Contraption fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Fantastic Contraption.
A VR puzzle-automation game. Create intricate clockwork contraptions out of your own clones and restore life to an ancient tree using automation, a collection of rare plants from across the galaxy and a team of clockwork gardeners.
Fantastic Contraption Classic 1 & 2
WHY THIS
Shares contraption building, physics simulation and a whimsical mood with Fantastic Contraption.
Third-strongest match for Fantastic Contraption fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Fantastic Contraption.
The original physics building game is now on PC! Use minimal tools to build an infinite variety of puzzle-solving machines. Featuring over 70 THOUSAND user-generated levels, and includes the sequel Fantastic Contraption Classic 2!
Ordnance Inc - An Explosive VR Throwing Game
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Fantastic Contraption fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Fantastic Contraption.
Ordnance Inc is a VR throwing game where you blow up old and faulty explosives using a variety of questionable grenades within a questionable budget. Contains a variety of challenging and sometimes silly levels.
Poly Ego
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Fantastic Contraption fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Fantastic Contraption.
Dive into the vibrant world of Poly Ego, a captivating VR adventure where you solve intricate puzzles with your lively robot companion, Bluepy. Navigate through challenging levels using lasers, portals, and cubes, use strategic thinking, and hide from the enemy bots!
vrkshop
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Fantastic Contraption.
Ranked #6 for Fantastic Contraption fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Fantastic Contraption.
vrkshop is a VR woodworking game. You are challenged to build projects with hand tools without snap-to-guides or limits on how to cut or fasten the lumber. The precision of your project is left entirely up to you. Have fun. Be productive.
Traceur's Dreamlab VR
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Fantastic Contraption fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Fantastic Contraption.
Traceur's Dreamlab is a place to be for every parkour runner! You can build your own levels, including not only challenging obstacles but also tricky puzzles and share them with the community. Within our multiplayer system you can run against your friends and other online players.
ArtPuzzle VR
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Fantastic Contraption fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Fantastic Contraption.
Relax and solve puzzles, improve your three-dimensional and visual thinking, explore great masterpieces of the past and works of modern artists.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Fantastic Contraption at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Fantastic Contraption on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Fantastic Contraption.
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.
Lethal Company
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Fantastic Contraption on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Fantastic Contraption.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
People Playground
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Fantastic Contraption on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Fantastic Contraption.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Fantastic Contraption on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Fantastic Contraption.
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!
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Fantastic Contraption on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Fantastic Contraption.
PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?
Sid Meier's Civilization® V
WHY THIS
Priced ~63% under Fantastic Contraption on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Fantastic Contraption.
Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!
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 with Fantastic Contraption.
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.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Fantastic Contraption.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Fantastic Contraption.
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 Fantastic Contraption.
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 Fantastic Contraption.
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.
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Fantastic Contraption.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
missed messages.
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Fantastic Contraption.
‘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 Fantastic Contraption.
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!
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More from Northway Games
Other recommendable Steam games by Northway Games, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
I Was a Teenage Exocolonist
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Fantastic Contraption.
Another title from Northway Games, the studio behind Fantastic Contraption. Shares Indie and Simulation with Fantastic Contraption.
Spend your teenage years on an alien planet in this narrative RPG with card-based battles. Explore, grow up, and fall in love. The choices you make and skills you master over ten years will determine the course of your life and the survival of your colony.
Rebuild 3: Gangs of Deadsville
WHY THIS
Another title from Northway Games, the studio behind Fantastic Contraption. Shares Strategy and Indie with Fantastic Contraption.
Rebuild a ruined city in this post-apocalyptic mix of strategy and simulation. Manage survivors, scavenge for food and supplies, deal with rival gangs, illness, interpersonal strife and zombie attacks.
Fantastic Contraption Classic 1 & 2
WHY THIS
Shares contraption building, physics simulation and a whimsical mood with Fantastic Contraption.
Another title from Northway Games, the studio behind Fantastic Contraption. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Fantastic Contraption.
The original physics building game is now on PC! Use minimal tools to build an infinite variety of puzzle-solving machines. Featuring over 70 THOUSAND user-generated levels, and includes the sequel Fantastic Contraption Classic 2!
Frequently asked about Fantastic Contraption
- Does Fantastic Contraption work on Steam Deck?
- Fantastic Contraption is currently rated Unsupported on Steam Deck. It may not launch or may have significant issues that block normal play.
- How much does Fantastic Contraption cost?
- Fantastic Contraption is listed on Steam at 19.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Fantastic Contraption?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Fantastic Contraption are Handy Machines VR, The Last Clockwinder, Fantastic Contraption Classic 1 & 2.
- Who developed Fantastic Contraption?
- Fantastic Contraption was developed by Northway Games, Radial Games Corp and published by Northway Games.
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