How does it work!?

This is a puzzle game where the player has to assemble a contraption to meet the specific target. It's similar to The Incredible Machine, just that here you have modern visuals and some different features. This takes me back. The Incredible Machine (TIM) is a favorite game from my youth.

In short: The game has little to offer, is a direct copy of a successful German game from 2005 and offers an outrageously inferior version for the same (original) price. In detail: The game looks like the first "Crazy Machines" game, release 2005 (germany) 2008 (steam/international) by FAKT Software and Viva Media. Many graphics are almost the same, the wall as background or even the blackboard in the menu screen. Even the UI structure in the level is identical. However, this is not a coincidence. The game menu has no volume control, so I had to do this through Windows Volume Manager. There the game window is called [i]Zarabotalo[/i]. hm ok. In Russian it's [i]Заработало[/i] and that happens to be EXACTLY the title the first "Crazy Machines" game was released in the Russian-speaking regions. I played the game anyway, and I noticed many things that are simply unattractive in terms of game design, and they certainly have a negative impact on the gameplay and gaming experienc...

This is one of those games where the title is entirely appropriate-just not in the way the developers intended. You will find yourself yelling at the screen, "OKAY! HOW THE F__K DOES IT WORK???" Not because the puzzle is hard per se, but because there is ZERO explanation of how the various components work, leaving you to figure that out through trial and error. Here's a hint: holding down the 'ctrl' key is usually what you're looking for. The next HUGELY ANNOYING feature is that once a component is placed IT IS FORBIDDEN TO MOVE IT! Violators will be shipped off to a Gulag in Siberia where they are unaware that the USSR no longer exists. I'm kidding (I hope). It isn't forbidden, it's just impossible. Which means that, having spent ten minutes setting up an elaborate device and placing all the components you place the very last of 37 different parts-and discover it's just a bit shy of where it needs to be. Which means that, since it can't be moved, you have to START ALL THE F__K OVER AG...

I got this game on sale for 99 cents. I overpaid.

Cannot pass level 3, I don't know how to control this thing. Looks more like a school work of a 15-year old (or younger) student.

It doesn't.