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Crazy Machines: Golden Gears

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Crazy Machines: Golden Gears

In this "Rube-Goldberg" style puzzle game, experiment and build your wacky contraptions with physics action like never before! Experience dazzling visuals of explosives, fire, and true to life physics behavior when you put the experiment into motion!

Casual Strategy Puzzle
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In this "Rube-Goldberg" style puzzle game, experiment and build your wacky contraptions with physics action like never before! Experience dazzling visuals of explosives, fire, and true to life physics behavior when you put the experiment into motion!

Including the Level Editor and Community for Crazy Machines Golden Gears!
Are you a creator or do you just want to puzzle?

The level editor allows players to take control and put their minds to work! Build and create puzzles! Make videos, take screenshots and create crazy art to share with the community! Anyone can download your creations, play & rate them! Enjoy spectacular visuals, sharp shaders, textures, and backgrounds as the action unfolds!

  • Choose from more than 60 parts/items to build your creation
  • Use the same tools Viva’s level designers use to create Challenge levels
  • Full Tutorial allows you to master the versatility of Crazy Machines' Level Editor
  • Build “real” puzzles or “self-solving” chain reactions
  • Cross Platform play allows you to share puzzles across various platforms.
  • Earn Golden Gears for building and uploading puzzles, which can be used to unlock more Challenge Levels
  • Sort and choose community puzzles by date, rating, popularity or alphabetical
  • Endless amount of content from a growing community

How do you get the Professor's Wind-Up Mouse to the other side of the room? Open the inventory, choose your parts and put your thinking cap on! With over 60 different Parts in your inventory, each puzzle can be solved in your own unique way. Lasers, Nitros, Dynamite, and Explosives can be used to cause constructive damage. Tie objects with Balloons or Weights for a rise or fall. Activate the Mouse or Truck to push and pull your objects to their destination. The possibilities are endless!

Note: The power cord is part of the item. For electric powered devices, tap on the power cord and then tap on the power outlet to connect the item to a power source.

FEATURES

  • Up to 42 challenges.
  • Use your creativity to master levels and earn 3 stars.
  • Cool Physics engine with fire, wind, gravity and particle effects.
  • Build and solve experiments with over 60 different Parts.
  • Create and share your own puzzles with the brand new Level Editor Choose from more than 60 parts/items to build your creation

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System requirements Windows · macOS

Windows

Minimum

Minimum:
  • OS *: Windows® XP (Home & Pro) SP3, Windows Vista® SP1, Windows® 7, Windows® 8
  • Processor: Intel® Core ™ Solo 1.5 GHz processor or faster
  • Memory: 2 GB RAM
  • Graphics: 256 MB VRAM DirectX 9.0c Compliant Video Card with Vertex- and Pixelshader Version 3.0 support required
  • DirectX: Version 9.0c
  • Storage: 1 GB available space
  • Sound Card: DirectX Compliant Sound Card

macOS

Minimum

Minimum:
  • OS: Mac® OS X 10.7 - 10.9
  • Processor: Intel® Core™ 2.0 GHz or better processor
  • Memory: 2 GB RAM
  • Graphics: 256 MB VRAM
  • Storage: 1 GB available space
Game details Languages, features & support
Publisher
Viva Media Inc
Achievements
8
Features
Single-player, Steam Achievements, Steam Leaderboards, Includes level editor, Family Sharing
Languages
English*, German*, French, Italian, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese - Portugal, Russian, Simplified Chinese
*languages with full audio support
Compatibility & accessibility Steam Deck, controllers & access features

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unknown
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Input
Controller support: unknown
Structured language support (10)
LanguageInterfaceFull audioSubtitles
EnglishYesYesYes
GermanYesYesYes
FrenchYesNoYes
ItalianYesNoYes
Spanish - SpainYesNoYes
JapaneseYesNoYes
KoreanYesNoYes
Portuguese - PortugalYesNoYes
RussianYesNoYes
Simplified ChineseYesNoYes

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Buy Verdict

Watch — $9.99.

Decent deal at 0% off, but might drop further. Watch for better opportunities.

▲ ~46 days until next sale

Value Score

Fair Value — 89th percentile.

Price-to-player ratio ranks in the 89th percentile. Priced as Premium at $9.99.

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Genre Benchmarks

Player Count Top 33%
Value Ratio Top 11%

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is Crazy Machines: Golden Gears worth buying right now?
Watch — $9.99. Decent deal at 0% off, but might drop further. Watch for better opportunities.
When does Crazy Machines: Golden Gears go on sale?
Decent deal at 0% off, but might drop further. Watch for better opportunities.
Is Crazy Machines: Golden Gears free to play?
Crazy Machines: Golden Gears costs $9.99 on Steam.
What genre is Crazy Machines: Golden Gears?
Crazy Machines: Golden Gears is a Casual, Strategy game.
Who developed Crazy Machines: Golden Gears?
Crazy Machines: Golden Gears was developed by FAKT Software Gmbh and published by Viva Media Inc.
What platforms does Crazy Machines: Golden Gears support?
Available on Steam for Windows, macOS, Linux.

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