When comparing Contraption Maker vs Civilization 6, the Slant community recommends Contraption Maker for most people. In the question“What are the best PC games for kids?” Contraption Maker is ranked 30th while Civilization 6 is ranked 39th. The most important reason people chose Contraption Maker is:
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.
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Pros
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.
Pro Easy city planning
The new district system introduces sprawling cities for the first time in the series and makes city planning much more interesting.
Pro Civics and government system
Replacing Civ5s Social Policies is a system of Civics, researched with culture unlocking policy cards of several categories and governments with different amounts of policy card slots.
Cons
Con Bad AI
The AI is not very good right now, often building obsolete units and hating player in 9 out of 10 cases.
Con Exploits
There are many exploits that still need to be ironed out, giving players a lot of ways to gain infinite money.