Catastropieces shows the art of Rube Goldberg machines

Catastropieces is a game all about making mistakes, getting messy, and playing with physics. It’s a 3D puzzler where you construct a makeshift Rube Goldberg machine out of items lying around the room in order to splash paint on an enormous canvas. It’s free on Itch.io for PC.

When I played a demo of Catastropieces at the USC Games Expo earlier this month, I was delighted to find that it had a story mode. You play as an artist who’s having trouble finding inspiration for their next great work — until inspiration strikes you and you decide that the entire room is your canvas. Each level is a new room, and you can rotate the space and zoom in and out to find objects to use to set up increasingly complex chain reactions. You’re usually given a few tasks, like the goal of knocking a bucket of paint onto a white canvas on the floor.