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Games Like Crazy Machines: Golden Gears

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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!

Reviews: Mostly Negative — 31% — of 39 reviews
Released: 2014-03-27
Developer: FAKT Software Gmbh
Publisher: Viva Media Inc
Genres: Casual, Strategy
Platforms: Windows, Mac
Median playtime: 12 min
Mean playtime: 25.0 hrs
Players ≥ 1 hr: 31%

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    Median: 12 minMean: 10.9 hrs≥1hr: 29%

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    Why similar: Strategy 42.6%, Casual 32.9%, Puzzle 24.4%

  2. #2 Crazy Machines
    95% matchVery Positive82% of 200 reviews2008
    Dev: Fakt SoftwarePub: Viva Media
    Windows
    Median: 36 minMean: 2.8 hrs≥1hr: 40%

    Turn the crank, rotate the gears, push the levers, Use the catapult, explode it, or fly it...From grilling sausages with a pulley, gears, rubberbands and a candle to firing a cannon with a basketball, these wacky brain-teasers will light up your imagination with creative and addictive fun.

    Why similar: Puzzle 41.8%, Strategy 33.9%, Casual 24.2%

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    94% matchPositive86% of 49 reviews2015
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    Why similar: Strategy 49.1%, Casual 30.4%, Puzzle 20.5%

  4. #4 Crazy Machines 2
    94% matchMixed47% of 259 reviews2008
    Dev: Fakt SoftwarePub: Viva Media
    Windows
    Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 89%

    Crazy Machines 2 is packed with all new features to help you create your wackiest "Rube Goldberg-style" contraptions yet! All new elements, plus an amazing 3D physics engine lets you craft even more complex gadgets and effects.

    Why similar: Strategy 35.8%, Puzzle 35%, Casual 29.3%

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    91% matchVery Positive92% of 170 reviews2015
    Dev: MumboJumboPub: Accelerate Games
    Windows
    Median: 36 minMean: 9.0 hrs≥1hr: 42%

    Experience LUXOR in stunning HD! Answer the call of the goddess, Isis, in this addictive marble-shooter game. Chains of colored spheres are working their way through ancient Egypt, and it’s up to you to stop them before they reach the pyramids.

    Why similar: Strategy 54.3%, Casual 45.7%

  6. #6 Puzzler World 2
    92% matchMostly Positive78% of 235 reviews2011
    Dev: Ideas PadPub: Puzzler
    Windows
    Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 15.2 hrs≥1hr: 55%

    The highly anticipated sequel to last year’s PC hit, Puzzler World 2 brings more puzzles, new games, fun rewards and an all new Master Mode.

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    86% matchNo user reviews
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    Windows

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  8. #8 Prismatica
    91% matchMostly Positive79% of 42 reviews2015
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    Windows · Mac
    Median: 18 minMean: 2.6 hrs≥1hr: 38%

    Prismatica is a colorful puzzle game with a brand new twist inspired by Rubik’s Cubes, Sudoku, Dodecahedrons and way too much caffeine.Prismatica's simple gameplay and deceptively challenging puzzles will tickle the brains of both beginners and veterans alike.

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    90% matchVery Positive89% of 408 reviews2010
    Dev: Ideas PadPub: Puzzler
    Windows
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    89% matchMostly Positive80% of 337 reviews2009
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    Windows
    Median: 6 minMean: 2.1 hrs≥1hr: 14%

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    Why similar: Casual 50.9%, Puzzle 49.1%

  11. #11 Strata
    87% matchVery Positive87% of 363 reviews2014
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  12. #12 Numba Deluxe
    88% matchMixed62% of 285 reviews2014
    Dev: Cobra Mobile
    Windows
    Median: 12 minMean: 114.8 hrs≥1hr: 25%

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    86% matchVery Positive86% of 91 reviews2015
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    Median: 24 minMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 40%

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    82% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2022
    Dev: Zhi Wong
    Windows

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  15. #15 Chemical Chimpet
    77% matchNo user reviews
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    85% matchMostly Positive76% of 89 reviews2014
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    Windows
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    83% matchMostly Positive74% of 39 reviews2016
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    Windows · Mac
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    Windows · Mac · Linux
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    Windows
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    Windows

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    81% match3 user reviews67% of 3 reviews2008
    Dev: Fakt SoftwarePub: Viva Media
    Windows

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    78% matchPositive90% of 10 reviews2017
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    70% matchNo user reviews2025
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    Windows

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    76% matchPositive95% of 44 reviews2017
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  29. #29 Mahjong Deluxe
    74% matchPositive81% of 47 reviews2020
    Dev: EnsenaSoft
    Windows

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    66% matchNo user reviews
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    Windows

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    70% matchPositive86% of 37 reviews2022
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    Windows

    ParkTo is a simple puzzle game that stops the car at its destination. You don't drive a car yourself. The car just moves forward. Use the given triggers to move the car to its destination.

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    74% matchPositive87% of 29 reviews2019
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    Windows

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    75% matchMixed60% of 15 reviews2018
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    Windows

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    75% match2 user reviews50% of 2 reviews2018
    Dev: Jake Peng
    Windows

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    64% matchNo user reviews
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    Windows · Mac

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    67% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2023
    Dev: W3zl3y3
    Windows

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    73% matchVery Positive93% of 320 reviews2015
    Dev: Kittehface Software
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    73% matchVery Positive85% of 664 reviews2014
    Dev: Stolen Couch Games
    Windows · Mac · Linux
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    72% matchVery Positive91% of 1,199 reviews2014
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    73% matchMixed59% of 17 reviews2016
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    71% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2019
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    71% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2019
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    56% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2026
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    70% match7 user reviews75% of 8 reviews2019
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    Windows

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    72% matchPositive82% of 28 reviews2014
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    Windows · Mac · Linux

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    66% matchMostly Negative22% of 18 reviews2022
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    Windows

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    68% matchPositive83% of 24 reviews2019
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    68% matchPositive80% of 10 reviews2019
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    Windows

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    58% matchNo user reviews
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    Windows

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    67% match9 user reviews44% of 9 reviews2020
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    Windows

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