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2022PC, Steam Deck playable88 % positive19.99 €

A creative retro-styled sandbox where you design, wire and program your own gadgets using Lua, then share them with the community. Ideal for tinkerers who like to experiment at their own pace.

  • Sandbox with your own goals
  • Building and crafting
  • Cosy, great for unwinding
  • Puzzles and brain teasers
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Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes Retro Gadgets special. The reasons are listed right on each game.

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Poly Bridge

91 %Match

2016PEGI 3PC, Nintendo Switch91 % positive8.19 €

Brings what grabs you about Retro Gadgets: a sandbox with your own goals, building and crafting as well as puzzles to figure out.

A physics-based bridge-building puzzler where you design structures on a budget so vehicles can cross safely. The sandbox and Steam Workshop support offer nearly endless levels and room to experiment.

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Sandbox with your own goals

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Poly Bridge 3

Building and crafting

A physics-based puzzle game where you engineer bridges to carry vehicles safely across gaps. The campaign, sandbox mode and mod support encourage plenty of tinkering and creative, often hilarious solutions.

Townscaper

Sandbox with your own goals

Townscaper is a goal-free, relaxing building toy: place a few colored blocks and a clever algorithm turns them into charming seaside towns full of arches, stairways and gardens.

Poly Bridge 2

Building and crafting

A physics-based bridge-building puzzler where you design structures on a budget so vehicles can make it safely across. Tinkering, failing and retrying is the heart of it, backed by a relaxing soundtrack and lots of room for creative solutions.

Crazy Machines 3

Bright, upbeat tone

A physics-based puzzle game where you build Rube Goldberg-style contraptions using electricity, lasers, explosions and wind. Chips let you give objects custom properties, encouraging free experimentation.

Freshly Frosted

Building and crafting

You lay out conveyor belts and machines to solve logistics puzzles in an adorable donut factory. Relaxed, charming and colorful, it's ideal for cozy tinkering.

Tiny Glade

Sandbox with your own goals

A relaxing building toy where you shape charming castles and dioramas with no goals, combat or pressure, while the game procedurally fills in every lovely detail around your doodles.

Contraption Maker

Bright, upbeat tone

A Rube Goldberg puzzler from the team behind The Incredible Machine, where you build absurd chain reactions with hamster motors, trampolines and alligators. A built-in editor and plenty of community puzzles keep it going for a long time.

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