shapez
BANGER · Strategy · 2020
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $9.99.
- Length
- 26.6h
- Value
- $0.38/hr
- Reviews
- 96% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, Any, 297 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
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!
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
The value story
The lowest price on record is $0.99, set in July 2024. Its cuts run 65 percent off as a rule. There have been 60 in the 6 years tracked, about 5 weeks apart.
Value puts it in the top 1 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 65 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Factorio ($35.00, scores 97) beats it on value, while it beats Havendock ($19.99, scores 54).
On this data it would still be a BANGER at $32.93. It costs $9.99.
Steam's global achievement data puts about 3 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 26.6-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 18 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written September 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 79 percent of the 997 reviews written there were positive, against 96 percent overall, and those are 7 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 26.6 hours; clearing it takes 94, which is 3.5 times the campaign.
The drop-off
91% start to 3% finishSteam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. On a 26.6-hour game, that's a lot you pay for and may never use. Steam global achievements
Players
395 players online when we last checked, on Sep 27, 15:46 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Shapez is... different, its not a normal game. Prepare to be dumbfounded over ratios of factories and multiple productions all happening at the same time, all managed by you. I have restarted the game so many times, just to redo and innovate my designs. This game is minimal, but not too minimal, Its not cluttered, but not empty. I find myself preparing for multiple levels ahead of my current goal, making factories...
Factorio for Potatoes - an excellent piece of software. A factory-based puzzle game where you're gonna spend more time untangling production lines from each other than you will watching a productive group of machines creating your output and meeting quotas. It's a min-maxers dream. Just like it says on the can.
Launched the game : - Forgot to eat - Forgot to drink - passed out -woke up - Did exaclty the same thing again Help
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
shapez scores 95/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1318690/shapezReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 26, price as of Oct 1.
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