Crazy Machines 3 Critic Reviews

If you were the kind of child who has sat knee deep in Lego making spaceships and buildings or were found surrounded by the guts of a clock looking up at bewildered parents. Crazy Machines 3 will engage you for a long time to come, if for no other reason than so you can work out new and interesting ways to shoot pigs on skis into space!

A clever puzzle game with physics and fantastic and diverse level design that doesn't offer any help, though.

The folks at Fakt Software have created a winner in the puzzle genre.

An interesting puzzle game that offers a nice challenge with a visual design that doesn't live up to modern standards.

Crazy Machines 3 is a quite good puzzle game, with cute graphics and a very functional physics system. The game is always challenging but never frustrating, and if you are stuck with an enigma our suggestion is to play it with a friend.

While I do appreciate the game retaining the quirky and simplistic nature of the older versions, I’m a little disappointed it doesn’t bring much more innovation to the genre.

Have you ever found yourself wasting time on YouTube watching videos of complicated mechanisms built by industrious people in their living rooms? If you always wanted to join the fun, but lacked the space or craftsmanship, Crazy Machines 3 may be the right answer.

Crazy Machines 3 delivers on the machines and delivers on the crazy, and although it isn't for everyone there's a select group that'll love and cherish it despite its quirks. Unfortunately, it’s missing a hook, and has just enough quirks in the core gameplay that makes it frustrating for anyone outside that group. And a lot of cool ideas are held back by a few frustrating gameplay mechanics that need to be ironed out before Crazy Machines 4.

In times of roomscale tinkering like Fantastic Contraption the conservative experiments of Crazy Machines 3 feel a bit outdated, but still manage to deliver solid puzzle fun.

Crazy Machines 3 is unapologetically a puzzle game about fixing, creating and customizing crazy machines. In that regard the game is solid. For puzzle aficionados maybe that’s all they need. However, in a year where we got The Witness and Steven’s Sausage Roll, Crazy Machines 3 does little to stand out from the competition and even its own series. Much like Peter Griffin and his failed breakfast contraption you might ask “What’s the point?”

Get ready to scream obscenities at your screen while trying to guess the exact placement of the umpteenth wooden plank down to the pixel. Yep, this "feature" that plagued all the previous games in this series, has managed to slip through yet again.