Crazy Machines Golden Gears FOR MAC

There is something very satisfying about setting up an overly-complex chain of reactions to perform a task, and fine-tuning it until your over-engineered contraption can do something simple like push a button.

Crazy Machines Golden Gears is an entertaining game that offers numerous challenges which can be solved in just such a fashion, using a large array of parts and items, from simple wooden blocks to lasers, explosives and toy mice.

As you progress through the game’s challenges, they get more and more complicated, requiring more thought to be put into designing a solution. However, even the earliest levels can be completed in any number of fashions, limited only by your imagination.

You have access to a large collection of construction materials, devices and moving objects, which can be combined to perform complex actions. Some of them may be difficult to understand at first, but some helpful hints are offered to get you up to speed.

The available levels can keep you entertained for a long time, but it is also possible to design your own challenges and share them with others. Alternatively, you can just construct self-solving chain reactions and have fun fine-tuning them to perfection.

While testing Crazy Machines Golden Gears, we often found ourselves forgetting about the actual challenge to instead try to build devices that were as complex and ridiculous as possible, while still completing the task set before us.

This takes us to what we believe to be the game’s greatest flaw: it’s strange scoring system. You are awarded points for using as few parts as possible, which goes against the basic principle of Rube Goldberg machines. Instead, you should be rewarded for overly-complicated builds that use elaborate chain reactions to complete the challenges.

Though, Crazy Machines Golden Gears is a puzzle game that can be played in any number of ways, and there is nothing stopping you from ignoring the score and just having fun.