Widgets and Gidgets

Widgets and Gidgets is a crafting and resource-management game about a gnome—or mech-gnome—trying to earn 1 million shinnies and graduate from the Gnomish Inventor's Institute. You combine parts to make gadgets and gizmos, then sell widgets and subsequent parts in the shop. As you work through objectives, you build machines to speed up crafting, while managing their breakdowns and the resources they consume.

Craft parts

You start with a small assortment of parts and combine them in three crafting bins to make more complex parts. More complicated parts are worth more shinnies, but crafting becomes harder and more involved as you unlock recipes.

Build and maintain machines

Objectives guide your progress and unlock the ability to build machines that craft parts for you. You spend shinnies on blueprints in the shop, then craft the parts needed to assemble each machine. Machines can break down and need periodic maintenance; upgrades improve their output and efficiency.

Manage your resources

You need to balance parts, shinnies and machines to reach your goal. Only widgets and subsequent parts can be sold, so running short of parts for crafting—or shinnies to buy parts—can leave you unable to progress. Machines may overproduce particular parts and consume valuable resources, so keeping their output in check is also important.

Use the shop

The shop lets you trade parts for shinnies, spend shinnies on parts, and buy machine upgrades and materials. You can upgrade the materials used for parts, including Iron, Steel and Titanium, to earn more shinnies per part. Planning purchases and understanding the shop's components are key to managing production.