shapez on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information

shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!

shapez is a automation, base-building and resource management game developed by Tobias Springer and published by tobspr Games and Doyoyo Games.
Released on June 07th 2020 is available on Windows, MacOS and Linux in 24 languages: English, French, Czech, German, Korean, Spanish - Spain, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese - Portugal, Russian, Norwegian, Japanese, Portuguese - Brazil, Spanish - Latin America, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Danish, Italian, Finnish, Hungarian, Romanian, Swedish, Turkish and Ukrainian.

It has received 13,489 reviews of which 12,980 were positive and 509 were negative resulting in an impressive rating of 9.4 out of 10. 😍

The game is currently priced at 1.99€ on Steam with a 80% discount, but you can find it for 1.18€ on Instant Gaming.

The Steam community has classified shapez into these genres:

Automation Base-Building Resource Management Sandbox Crafting Strategy Singleplayer Management Building Open World 2D Puzzle Casual Moddable Simulation Abstract Procedural Generation Logic Indie Family Friendly

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System requirements

These are the minimum specifications needed to play the game. For the best experience, we recommend that you verify them.

Windows

Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
OS: Windows 10 64bit
Processor: 2 Ghz or faster
Memory: 2048 MB RAM
Graphics: Any
Storage: 300 MB available space

MacOS

OS: macOS Catalina or later
Memory: 2048 MB RAM
Graphics: Any
Storage: 300 MB available space
Additional Notes: Two Button Mouse recommended

Linux

Processor: 2 Ghz or faster
Memory: 2048 MB RAM
Graphics: Any
Storage: 300 MB available space
Additional Notes: Please report any issues in the discord!

User reviews & Ratings

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Jan. 2025

Need a game to mindlessly play with the satisfaction of automation? This is the one. Its like Factorio.. only you arent a person.. and you farm shapes.. and you cant lose... It makes my neurospicy happy.

Dec. 2024

Essentially a lightweight, abstract version of Factorio. shapez ditches various "superfluous" elements of Factorio, like resource management. defense, and vehicles, to focus on the core gameplay of building the factory. The idea to use shapes as resources is pretty clever as it allows for loads of combinations that are intuitive to create (not needing a recipe tree or anything). Definitely worth the price. Also check out shapez 2!

Aug. 2024

Shapez is exactly what you would expect from looking at the steam page. You may ask, "what's the point of just putting shapes together?" I wondered the same thing before I decided to give the game a shot. The game gives you goals as you progress, asking for more and more complex shapes to unlock methods of making even more complex shapes, so you do have goals, even if they aren't as complex as something like launching a rocket. The thing that really struck me about the game is how much more approachable it is, compared to something like Factorio. See, when you're faced with creating something new in Factorio, you're faced with looking up a series of recipes that lead to the product you want and if you have memory issues, (like I do) then trying to remember all the steps involved can lead to a lot of time spent sorting through menus. In shapez, everything you need to know about how to create a shape is shown in the shape itself. So instead of trying to remember a list of occasionally obtuse ingredients, you simply look at the shape you need and put it together. Imagine if all you needed to make a green circuit in Factorio was visible just by looking at the icon for one. Instead of sifting through recipes, you can spend your time actually creating the systems that craft what you need. You also don't have to worry about actually crafting the machines and belts to make your systems work. That removes some of the challenge, but it also lets you make systems as large and complex as you like, without having to wait for things to craft. There's also no antagonist to speak of, nor an avatar with a limited reach. Just you and everything you need to make the factory of your dreams. If you've always wanted to get into factory and automation games, but found yourself overwhelmed, Shapez is the game for you. It's approachable and intuitive, but still leaves room for complexity. Of all the automation games I've played, (which is a lot) Shapez strikes me as the perfect entry point for the genre. Even if you're a veteran of automation games, Shapez is still a more relaxed approach to automation and sometimes, it's nice to just build what I want, without worry that something is going to blow it up.

July 2024

If most of factory games went with gritty industrial graphics, controls galore and often unclear or overwhelming goals, Shapez managed to extract the very essence of the concept and serve us a very elegant and simple universe in which we can tackle very ambitious production chains. Nailed it: 10/10

April 2024

Super minimalist stripped down version of Factorio which is pretty fun and satisfying. However, new mechanics dry up quickly and there is a lack of pressure to do things efficiently. I didn't find much drive to keep going after unlocking all the tools.

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