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Shapez (Video Game)

Shapez is an open source Space-Management Game and Factory-Building Game, in which the factory you build makes shapes.

Shapes are made by laying out an assembly line of various machines, cutters, painters, stackers and so on.

There is a free demo playable online, and you can grab your save file from it if you want to continue playing on the full version purchasable on Steam.

A sequel, Shapez 2, was released into Early Access in August 2024.


Examples:

  • Easy Logistics: Unlike most factory games, buildings are free to place and resources won't run out so once you've built the factory it will run forever. The only consumable resources are blueprint shapes which are required to copy and paste factories.
  • Endless Tasks, Endless Game: While there are set goals, once finished the game will provide random shapes to create.
  • Gameplay Automation: Once unlocked, blueprints let you copy entire setups in one go.
  • Idle Game: A Loading Screen tip notes that the game is not one. If you find yourself waiting for your factory to deliver shapes to the hub, it may be a good idea to try and make your factory more efficient, build more factories in parallel, or even start building a factory for another required shape.
  • Infinite Canvas: There is no limit to the world - you can expand your factory indefinitely. Or at least until your framerate starts to drop.
  • Infinity +1 Sword: The "Make Anything Machine" can be seen as this, since it has the potential to create any randomly-generated shape without player input after the standard levels. Of course, the player has to create this on their own using all the tools they've unlocked along the way.
  • No Plot? No Problem!: Why are we making shapes? No idea, but it sure is fun!
  • Noob Bridge: Level 20 has you building a shape that resembles the logo, which is the first time you have a "floating layer" completely unsupported by the layer below. Tip: Build the left half first by stacking two parts that overlap in the right half, then cut the right half off. The left bottom square should still remain "floating", so now you can just make the correct right half and stack them together
  • Programming Game: The signal layer allows for automatically reconfiguring the assembly line and grants you the potential to create a "Make Anything Machine".
  • Randomly Generated Levels: Each world is randomly generated.

Alternative Title(s): Shapez IO

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