Fantastic Contraption Classic 1 & 2
The original 2008 2D physics building game! With over 1.5 million players, Fantastic Contraption is a true classic.
Your goal is simple: move the red ball from the blue building zone to the pink goal area.
Your tools: wood rods (solid), water rods (pass through stuff), and wheels that turn clockwise or counterclockwise.
Your solutions: NEAR INFINITE. Players have saved over 10 million unique designs, solving levels with everything from cars to catapults to conveyor belts or just pure gravity.
Also bundled as a free bonus is Fantastic Contraption 2. The original 2010 sequel features magnets, moving platforms, and 66 new official levels. Only offline saving is supported.
The first 20 official levels of Fantastic Contraption Classic will still be available for free in your browser on the official site, until the world says goodbye to the Adobe Flash plugin at the end of 2020. This is the full paid version, which includes the level editor and access to 70 thousand user-made levels and 10 million shared designs, plus an extra 25 official levels and full music track.
A Fantastic Contraption account required to share designs or levels online, but not to play or save locally.
Game Discussion
Steam User 1
Classic game. I used to play this on my iPhone 3g back in my Army days. We used to sit and play for hours. I haven't checked on this version, if there are some of the same physics exploitations. I remeber if you stacked enough small wood pieces, that gravity could pull things through solid objects. Anyway, I wish this would get ported to androids and modern phones. I need a part 3.
Steam User 0
Played this game as a kid and started playing again recently, trying to complete the campaign levels I was unable to complete back then. It's still just as fun as it was. :)
Steam User 1
As much as I *deeply* loved FC 1 & 2 back in the day, I just CAN NOT recommend a new player to buy this at the price of $10 (or even $5) unless it’s solely to support the devs. I’m glad the game didn’t disappear with Flash, but this Steam version is exclusively for archival or reliving your nostalgia.
It lacks all functionality you’d expect from a PC game in the last decade, like really basic QoL stuff. No settings menu, the volume is literally on or off, the online functionality is essential to the game yet barely functional (and allegedly very insecure), the game resolution is small and can’t be changed, it seems to be stuck in a halloween mode and the sky is full of obnoxious ghost clouds, to switch between FC 1 and 2 you have to change your boot options, FC 1 is missing hotkeys for several functions, etc.
Please still support Northway Games though, it seems they’ve made some fantastic games since FC back in 2008. They were very upfront about this just being for archival, I respect that!
Steam User 0
Delightful and creative. Been trying to get adults to give me instructions in English Class and they really struggle.
Steam User 0
The 2008 physics-puzzle game, preserved on Steam! I played this for hundreds, if not thousands of hours way back in the day. Fantastic Contraption is a deceptively simple game, but that simplicity leaves lots of room for users to create complicated solutions to levels if they need to, and complicated levels for others to solve if they want to. Sometimes it can be very fiddly, tedious, and frustrating to work on a solution, but once you finally get the goal pieces into the goal area, it all becomes worth it! So glad this game was ported to steam, so I can continue to spend hundreds, if not thousands of hours playing it!
Steam User 0
This was my childhood. I used to love and still love these games. Even though I was never (and am still not) any good at them. ;D
Steam User 1
A wonderful time capsule back to flash games before 2010. It truly hasn't changed a bit, all the quirky charms are still here and I wouldn't have it any other way!