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Crazy Machines Golden Gears Lite – Puzzle Game Review
Crazy Machines Golden Gears Lite is a Puzzle/Education/Family game from Encore, first launched in 11th April 2013.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 60+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Crazy Machines Golden Gears Lite Stand Out
The award winning Crazy Machines is now available at the tap of your finger!
In this "Rube Goldberg" style puzzle game, experiment and build your wacky contraptions with physics action like never before on the mobile platform! Dazzling visuals of explosives, fire, and true to life physics behavior when you put the experiment into motion!
• Play up to 8 Challenge levels free of charge! Try it out!
• Pay as little as $ 0.99 and unlock the brand new Level Editor!
Introducing the Level Editor and Community for Crazy Machines Golden Gears!
The level editor allows players to create puzzles on their device and share them with the community. Anyone can download puzzles created by other players and play them.
Introducing the Level Editor and Community for Crazy Machines Golden Gears!
The level editor allows players to create puzzles on their device and share them with the community. Anyone can download puzzles created by other players and play them.
• Choose from more than 60 parts/items to build your creation
• Use the same tools Viva’s level designers use to create Challenge levels
• Full Tutorial allows you to master the versatility of Crazy Machines' Level Editor
• Build “real” puzzles or “self-solving” chain reactions
• Cross Platform play allows you to share puzzles across various platforms.
• Earn Golden Gears for building and uploading puzzles, which can be used to unlock more Challenge Levels
• Sort and choose community puzzles by date, rating, popularity or alphabetical
• Endless amount of content from a growing community
How do you get the Professor's Wind-Up Mouse to the other side of the room? Open the inventory, choose your parts and put your thinking cap on! With over 60 different Parts in your inventory, each puzzle can be solved in your own unique way. Lasers, Nitros, Dynamite, and Explosives can be used to cause constructive damage. Tie objects with Balloons or Weights for a rise or fall. Activate the Mouse or Truck to push and pull your objects to their destination. The possibilities are endless!
Note: The power cord is part of the item. For electric powered devices, tap on the power cord and then tap on the power outlet to connect the item to a power source.
Available in English and German language.
FEATURES
• Up to 42 challenges.
• Use your creativity to master levels and earn 3 stars.
• Cool Physics engine with fire, wind, gravity and particle effects.
• Build and solve experiments with over 60 different Parts.
• Create and share your own puzzles with the brand new Level Editor Choose from more than 60 parts/items to build your creation
This Puzzle game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Crazy Machines Golden Gears Lite is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 11th November 2014
Recent improvements include:
In addition to minor updates and improvements, we have added the following languages:
- French
- Italian
- Spanish
- Japanese
- Korean
- Portuguese
- Russian
- Simplified Chinese
Enjoy!
Download & Availability
Crazy Machines Golden Gears Lite is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Crazy Machines Golden Gears Lite on App Store
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
Reminds us of "The Incredible Machine" really brings us back! Makes us think a little to get a perfect score.
We love the game……keep up the good work.
Our kids love making new inventions and finding creative ways to make things work. We highly recommend it for hours of fun and learning.
Fun and hard! Just like a good man.
Like it so far, but it would be great if you could earn parts rather than buy.
We love this game except for some minor bugs and confusion other than that its a great game. It's like a mini Rube Goldburg invention.
It's fun game but you have to purchase a package to be able to invent anything and you need game money to keep playing new levels.
Getting server communication error. Unfortunately, there is no way to contact the developer. They won't activate our forum account (tried with multiple emails), and no contact info on site. The feature to download user created levels is weird and doesn't work. All the user levels are already completed on download, so are pointless except to watch boring machines that other people have built. The physics change from level to level to make it illogical. For example, a balloon that can break a vase? What.
Where is our friable sausage? Our anti gravity machine? Our ZEPPLIN? Our pipes potted plant robot battery surgestrip crossvow pipe whistle fuseelongator scissors betterwiringsystem wateringcan teslacoil bucket custombackground 200+ levels 70+ elements epicness? WHERE? This is crazy! Crazy machines 1 was better, it came out in 2005! This it horrid now. It ruined everything. WHERE IS MY SAUSAGE? Oh. It's gone. Sneaksquadatyourservice.
We had the game along time ago and we want looking for this app in our history but when we found the app it was outdated so please upgrade it so we all can download the game again thank bye.
Its so cool and fun but its a bit too hard.
This game is awesome but we could use a little bit of improvement on the hints but other than that is love it.
Crazy Machines Golden Gears is a great game. It's very fun just like all the games in the series. But there's one thing that we really dislike and that is: Golden Gears. Yes, we know it's the title of the game, but just plain annoying, because it's only this game that has it, we mean you have to buy a golden gear pack if you run out of gears. (Which you probably will) we mean, you have to use them just to play a level! In the original Crazy Machines, Crazy machines 1.5, Crazy machines 2, etc., you didn't have to "buy" a level. That's really all, besides that this is a great game.
This needs to be updated. We paid for full version that doesnt work anymore.
The directions and how to use everything is awful. The game expects you to know how to play it. The directions hint at what you should do but it doesn't give you anything else on how to get three stars.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.11
- Size: 106.86 MB
- iOS: 5.1 or later
- Languages: EN, DE
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: Encore
Last updated: 11th November 2014 | Genre: Puzzle, Education | Developer: Encore