Fantastic Contraption

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App ID	386690
App Type	Game
Developer	Northway Games, Radial Games Corp
Publisher	Northway Games
Franchise	Northway Games
Supported Systems	Windows
Technologies	Unity Engine
Last Changenumber	28972765
Last Record Update	14 May 2025 – 03:37:38 UTC ()
Release Date	5 April 2016 – 14:14:00 UTC ()

❓ 72.85%

273 reviews

In-Game

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.

Additional Information

Developer

Northway Games

metacritic_name

Fantastic Contraption

community_visible_stats

Yes

workshop_visible

Yes

ReleaseState

released

Publisher

Northway Games

eulas

0 ↴
id	386690_eula_0
name	Fantastic Contraption EULA
url	http://store.steampowered.com//eula/386690_eula_0

Store Release Date

5 April 2016 – 14:14:15 UTC ()

osarch

community_hub_visible

Yes

OpenVrSupport

Yes

ControllerVr

steamvr	1
oculus	1

PlayAreaVr

roomscale ↴
width	2
depth	1.5
360_required	0
seated	1
standing	1

vrheadsetstreaming

onlyvrsupport

Yes

Primary Genre

Simulation (28)

Store Genres

Indie (23), Simulation (28), Strategy (2)

Steam Release Date

5 April 2016 – 14:14:00 UTC ()

Store Asset Modification Time

30 October 2022 – 00:43:11 UTC () (1667090591)

library_assets

library_capsule	en
library_hero	en
library_logo	en
logo_position ↴
pinned_position	CenterCenter
width_pct	55.74800119089287
height_pct	55.236056318584886

review_score

review_percentage

Detected Technologies (?)

Unity Engine, OculusXRPlugin SDK, OpenVR SDK, Steam_Audio SDK

Steam Deck Compatibility

Steam Deck:
Steam Deck does not support VR games
category: Unsupported
steamos_compatibility: Unknown
test_timestamp: 29 September 2022 – 00:00:00 UTC
tested_build_id: No build

configuration:

supported_input	other
requires_manual_keyboard_invoke	0
requires_non_controller_launcher_nav	0
primary_player_is_controller_slot_0	0
non_deck_display_glyphs	0
small_text	0
requires_internet_for_setup	0
requires_internet_for_singleplayer	0
recommended_runtime	proton-stable
requires_h264	0
requires_voice_files	0
gamescope_frame_limiter_not_supported	0
hdr_support	0

First seen on SteamDB

9 July 2015 – 17:48:30 UTC (), in changelist #1156930

Supported Languages

20 Languages	Interface	Full Audio	Subtitles
English	Yes	Yes	Yes
Japanese	Yes		Yes
Simplified Chinese	Yes		Yes
French	Yes		Yes
Italian	Yes		Yes
German	Yes		Yes
Spanish - Spain	Yes		Yes
Arabic	Yes		Yes
Danish	Yes		Yes
Dutch	Yes		Yes
Finnish	Yes		Yes
Korean	Yes		Yes
Norwegian	Yes		Yes
Polish	Yes		Yes
Portuguese - Portugal	Yes		Yes
Portuguese - Brazil	Yes		Yes
Russian	Yes		Yes
Swedish	Yes		Yes
Traditional Chinese	Yes		Yes
Turkish	Yes		Yes

Hardware Categories

Tracked Controller Support

VR Only

Assets

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clienticon

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clienttga

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icon

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logo

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logo_small

066c5926c953002de3fc7169d9d63b33835e668e_thumb

small_capsule

english	capsule_231x87.jpg
japanese	capsule_231x87_japanese.jpg

header_image

english	header.jpg
japanese	header_japanese.jpg

library_assets_full

library_capsule ↴
image/english	library_600x900.jpg
image2x/english	library_600x900_2x.jpg
library_hero ↴
image/english	library_hero.jpg
image2x/english	library_hero_2x.jpg
library_logo ↴
image/english	logo.png
image2x/english	logo_2x.png
logo_position/pinned_position	CenterCenter
logo_position/width_pct	55.74800119089287
logo_position/height_pct	55.236056318584886

Assets

main_capsule	capsule_616x353.jpg
small_capsule	capsule_231x87.jpg
header	header.jpg
page_background	page_bg_generated_v6b.jpg
hero_capsule	hero_capsule.jpg
library_capsule	library_600x900.jpg
library_capsule_2x	library_600x900_2x.jpg
library_hero	library_hero.jpg
library_hero_2x	library_hero_2x.jpg
community_icon	31e9004ab5f5640faac0ae235b823cd741ba313f.jpg
page_background_path	app/386690
raw_page_background	page_bg_raw.jpg
timestamp	23 May 2023 – 20:21:02 UTC

Trailers

256662523 ↴
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trailer_category	0
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microtrailer/video/webm	386690/55702/05c204a7083866f68dbe1394bf1703e58732695e/1751275812/microtrailer.webm
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trailer_base_id	55702
all_ages	true
is_highlight	true
timestamp	1459736101
256662196 ↴
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trailer_category	0
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trailer_base_id	55176
all_ages	true
is_highlight	true
timestamp	1458953664
256661119 ↴
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trailer_category	0
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trailer_480p/video/mp4	256661119/movie480.mp4
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microtrailer/video/mp4	386690/53084/a706e66cee5346e5ee2e22cfcbdda7591770e9b1/1751276932/microtrailer.mp4
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trailer_base_id	53084
all_ages	true
is_highlight	true
timestamp	1459292006

Depots

ID	Configuration	Size	DL.
228984	Windows Shared InstallDepot from 228980VC 2012 Redist	No size
228985	Windows Shared InstallDepot from 228980VC 2013 Redist	No size
228990	Windows Shared InstallDepot from 228980DirectX Jun 2010 Redist	No size
386691	Windows Fantastic Contraption Content WIN	953.05 MiB	227.90 MiB
386692	macOS Fantastic Contraption Content OSX	0 B	0 B
386693	Linux Fantastic Contraption Content LINUX	0 B	0 B

Total size on disk is 953.05 MiB and total download size is 227.90 MiB.

Branches

Name	Description	Build ID	Time Updated
public		4728022	10 April 2020 – 18:39:28 UTC
2.03		4728022	10 April 2020 – 18:38:35 UTC
experimental	May be unstable!	4728022	28 February 2020 – 21:06:25 UTC
v1.1.4	Social Update	1275648	15 January 2017 – 18:31:11 UTC
v1.5.5	Kaiju Update	1505234	15 January 2017 – 18:31:28 UTC
v1.5.9b	Anti-Oppenheimer Beta	1565770	15 January 2017 – 18:35:14 UTC
v1.5.9c		1568215	15 January 2017 – 18:42:25 UTC
v1.6.0a		1574440	17 January 2017 – 20:46:18 UTC
v1.6.0b		1574572	17 January 2017 – 20:46:27 UTC
v2.02		2709952	2 December 2019 – 22:53:09 UTC

Fantastic Contraption

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