How many copies has Contraption Maker sold?

indielist estimates Contraption Maker has sold between 41,175 and 96,075 units (median 68,625), derived from its 915 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.

Who developed Contraption Maker?

Contraption Maker was developed by Kevin Ryan and published by Top Meadow.

Who published Contraption Maker?

Contraption Maker was published by Top Meadow, developed by Kevin Ryan. See Top Meadow's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.

When was Contraption Maker released?

Contraption Maker was released in 2014.

How many reviews does Contraption Maker have on Steam?

Contraption Maker has 915 Steam reviews, of which 91% are positive.

Is Contraption Maker worth playing?

Steam players rate Contraption Maker 91% positive across 915 reviews. indielist doesn't score games editorially; it surfaces public review sentiment and a white-box sales estimate so you can judge reception and reach yourself.

Contraption Maker

Jul 7, 2014 Casual $12.99

Developer Kevin Ryan Publisher Top Meadow

Profile updated Jun 2026

Casual puzzle indie game built around 2D contraptions, sandbox play, Lemmings-style problem solving, and a level editor. Released in 2014 by developer kevin-ryan and publisher top-meadow, it has 1,308 Steam reviews at 91% positive and an initial price of $12.99.

Contraption Maker is a 2014 Casual game developed by Kevin Ryan and published by Top Meadow. On Steam it has gathered 915 player reviews, 91% of them positive, which counts as a very positive reception among indie titles in the Casual category. The game is available on linux, mac, windows, and launched at $13. The pairing of developer Kevin Ryan with publisher Top Meadow is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Casual projects reach the market. indielist's white-box method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 41,000 to 96,000 units, with the full Boxleiter factor breakdown shown on this page rather than a single black-box figure. Within indielist's catalog of indie games mapped to their studios, publishers, and funding, Contraption Maker can be compared against similar Casual titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.

Reviews

915

Positive

91%

Steam appid

241240

Engine

Unknown

Players (snapshot)

Unavailable

Sales estimate

v1.0

41K to 96K

units (median: 69K)

≈ $306K to $713K modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)

41K median 96K

+ How is this calculated?

915 reviews × NB(75) = 68,625 median units

Factor	Adjustment
base	+50
year_2014	+30
price_$13	0
positive_91%	+10
genre_Casual	-15
final NB	75

Heuristic display range: median × [0.6, 1.4]. Boundary protection: NB ∈ [15, 150].

Methodology & limitations

Sales estimates use an additive Boxleiter-derived heuristic against public Steam review counts. They are not authoritative sales data, and the fixed display range is not a statistically validated confidence interval. Actual results may fall outside it, especially for deeply discounted or bundle-heavy titles. Algorithm version v1.0. Read the exact method and validation status.

indielist estimates lifetime unit sales for Contraption Maker at roughly 41,000 to 96,000 copies, with a median around 69,000, derived from its 915 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $509K in net revenue after Steam's 30% cut, regional pricing, and refunds. Unlike black-box trackers, the full calculation is shown on this page: a base review-to-sales multiplier is adjusted for release year, launch price, review sentiment, studio size, and genre, and every adjustment is listed so developers, publishers, and investors can audit exactly how the figure was reached. The range itself reflects genuine uncertainty — review-to-sales ratios vary widely between games — so indielist publishes a low, median, and high band rather than a false-precision single number, and treats free-to-play, heavily discounted, and bundle-distributed titles as having wider error margins still.

Price history

15 observed days · window low $6.49

Across 15 observed UTC days from 2026-06-03 to 2026-07-24, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $6.49 to $6.49. The tracked-window low was $6.49 on 2026-06-03.

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Platforms

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Frequently asked questions

How many copies has Contraption Maker sold?: indielist estimates Contraption Maker has sold between 41,175 and 96,075 units (median 68,625), derived from its 915 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
Who developed Contraption Maker?: Contraption Maker was developed by Kevin Ryan and published by Top Meadow.
Who published Contraption Maker?: Contraption Maker was published by Top Meadow, developed by Kevin Ryan. See Top Meadow's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
When was Contraption Maker released?: Contraption Maker was released in 2014.
How many reviews does Contraption Maker have on Steam?: Contraption Maker has 915 Steam reviews, of which 91% are positive.
Is Contraption Maker worth playing?: Steam players rate Contraption Maker 91% positive across 915 reviews. indielist doesn't score games editorially; it surfaces public review sentiment and a white-box sales estimate so you can judge reception and reach yourself.

Players looking for games like Contraption Maker can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Casual titles such as shapez, Garry's Mod, Unpacking, Tiny Glade, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Kevin Ryan's other releases and Top Meadow's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Contraption Maker sits among a studio's body of work and how its publisher's portfolio performs. Because indielist maps studios, publishers, games, and funding into one connected graph, the same Contraption Maker page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Casual game, developers studying how comparable projects were positioned and what they sold, and investors tracing which teams and labels are active in the space. A machine-readable markdown mirror of this page is published at the same path with a .md suffix for AI assistants, and its review, price, and sales-estimate figures are refreshed on a schedule rather than frozen at launch.

Matched from shared Steam tags and primary genre. Review count breaks ties; it is not a personal recommendation score.