When comparing Besiege vs Contraption Maker, the Slant community recommends Besiege for most people. In the question“What are the best contraption building games on PC?” Besiege is ranked 1st while Contraption Maker is ranked 2nd. The most important reason people chose Besiege is:
Each level takes place on a stage of blank white, giving the users unlimited space to test machines. The destruction of machines, buildings, and NPCs in this game is graphic and hilarious.
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Pros
Pro Beautiful design
Each level takes place on a stage of blank white, giving the users unlimited space to test machines. The destruction of machines, buildings, and NPCs in this game is graphic and hilarious.
Pro Encourages creativity
In each level, the player is given an objective. The objective can be reached in any way. Players are able to build a huge variety of custom weapons and vehicles. Potential vehicles include airplanes and helicopters, tanks, catapults, hot air balloons, and more.
Pro Active community
There are loads of forums where you can discuss stuff about the game, share creations and ideas and look for servers you can play on.
Pro Sandbox Mode and Multiverse (multiplayer and level editor)
Remember, it's not just levels! In the Sandbox you can test your machines which is neat. The Multiverse has a lot to offer as well: the multiplayer function and the Level Editor. You can upload your levels to the Steam Workshop (Steam only).
Pro Community Workshop (Steam only)
In the Workshop, you can post your creations for other users to use and you can download other people's creations.
Pro Steam Workshop support
Players are able to share their creations as puzzles to everyone else who has this game on Steam, although this can potentially include even sophisticated machines that requires little input, just to see what kinds of amazing things can be created.
Pro 2-player coop
Two players can work together on building a machine at the same time, coming up with all sorts of wacky ideas, or perhaps even getting creative with a "machine vs. machine" type of creation.
Pro Puzzles
There are over 200 puzzles for you to go through and figure out, from simple to complex, and often with one straightforward solution, but several alternate solutions.
Pro Variety of parts
There are over 100 parts to add to your machine, with a wide variety of uses and effects.
Pro No size limit
You can make machines as big as you want, with as many parts as you want. The only bottleneck is how much your own computer can take.
Cons
Con Another one of them games forever stuck in Early Access
Con Still in alpha testing
Some of the best features of this game are still in development. The final version isn't said to be released until mid 2016.