Fantastic Contraption is an indie developed by Northway Games, released 5 April 2016 on PlayStation 4, PC (Microsoft Windows) and SteamVR.
What Fantastic Contraption is
Fantastic Contraption is an indie game developed by Northway Games and released in 2016. It is available on PlayStation 4, PC (Microsoft Windows) and SteamVR. It runs on Unity.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Fantastic Contraption was originally a building game made way back in 2008. Millions of people played it obsessively and saved over 12 million contraptions. You can still play it for free. For years we loved the idea of a 3d Fantastic Contraption but couldn't figure out how it would work. Then we tried the Vive. The new Fantastic Contraption has been designed from the ground up for room-scale VR. Imagine walking around a grassy island in the sky while you build a machine the size of a horse with your own hands. Press play and watch it trundle off to reach the goal on the other side of the island. With 40+ levels and infinite solutions, it's a VR experience you and your friends will play for…
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are party. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
Fantastic Contraption holds a critic score of 67 out of 100. That places it above 27% of the 5,098 rated indie games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2016 averaged 68, so it scored about average for its year.
What it launched against
Fantastic Contraption launched on 5 April 2016, within three weeks of Dark Souls III, Ratchet & Clank, Don't Starve Together and Quantum Break. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 3 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Dark Souls III, Ratchet & Clank, Don't Starve Together, Quantum Break.
Official trailer
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