Retro Gadgets Preview (Steam Early Access)

by Jim Smale · February 8, 2023

For our Retro Gadgets Preview, We explore a gadget creation station where you invent, build, solder, code and customize your own electrifying gadgets then share them with the world. You look up from your cozy little workbench. It’s dark out, what time is it? It doesn’t matter; you’ve been in the flow and are adding the final touches to your latest retro gadget. Just one more line of code, a spray of paint here, a sticker there – it’s done. You power it on… The start-up sound kicks in… the needles on the gauges flutter, and the screen lights up… it’s glorious. It’s ready to share with the world. Now, all it needs is a name.

Retro Gadgets Preview Pros:

Beautiful modern pixel art graphics.
249.39MB Download size.
Graphics settings – pixel-perfect render, and bloom.
Video recorder settings – video format, wait to record, and set the destination folder.
External Retro Gadgets documentation website complete with downloads.
Keyboard shortcuts for actions.
Neat little touches like you can turn the desk light on and off.
Coding aswel as electronics. If you know/learn it then you can build it.
Uses the LUA coding language.
Infinite replayability.
Export your Creations out of the game!
The game takes place on a tabletop.
Drawers on the side house – input, output, and miscellaneous.
Boards drawer has many variations.
The archive drawer has a selection of already assembled devices and Creations.
Click elements anywhere to get a note on what it is.
Device-building gameplay.
Very intricate and asks you to make sure elements are plugged in and functional.
YouTube-based tutorials system with a link in the game to them.
Steam Workshop support and is embedded within the game.
Airbrush to paint parts of your creation, you have a huge palette of colors and different nozzles.
Soldiering iron for connecting elements.
Loading I’m Creations is done like a 3D printer.
Tweezers for the smaller elements.
The tutorial section is all broken up into parts.
You can import assets.
People who are in the know of all things electronic are in for a riot of creativity.
You make your own fun.
More learning than gaming.

Retro Gadgets Preview Cons:

Requires a lot of work and concentration to get going.
You go out of the game more than in it to learn.
No actual graphics settings.
The cursor is ridiculously small.
Takes a long long time to get going.
Doesn’t support the controller.
Absolutely destroys time.
No Steam achievements yet.
Steam Workshop parts are not clearly marked as such and don’t explain any of it.
You have to make your own fun.
The soldiering gun and airbrush don’t have a holder.
More learning than gaming if that’s your thing.
Cannot customize your workspace.
Makes you smarter… Hopefully.

Retro Gadgets:

Official website.

Developer: Licorice ehf

Publisher: Licorice ehf

Store Links –

Steam Early Access