Shape Shifter: Formations
Fair · Roguelike · 2025
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $14.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 2h 20.9h to 100%
- Value
- $7.50/hr
- Reviews
- 91% of 276 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 6 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 10 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
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
About the game
Shape Shifter: Formations is an action twin-stick shooter with rogue-lite elements, where you must destroy hordes of geometric enemies alone or with a friend. Select your ship and combine a large variety of weapons, abilities and infinitely stacking upgrades to craft your own unique build.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, GTX 670 or AMD Equivalent, 502 MB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
It has been discounted 30 times in the 3 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 20 percent, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 10 days ago.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 29 percent on value. It is better reviewed than 75 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Bounty of One ($6.99, scores 66) beats it on value, while it beats Greedland ($12.99, scores 60).
More about Shape Shifter: Formations
Of the 270 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, none come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written September 2023 to August 2026.
HowLongToBeat players log 2 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 21, 10 times as much.
At 2 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.
The drop-off
96% start to 11% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
What players say
I am going to say this in all caps so the people in the back can hear it... THIS GAME IN PHENOMENAL IN VR WITH THE UEVR MOD That is all.
2 more reviews
This game deserved a lot more success than it got. The visuals are great and despite being busy in the more hectic moments, I rarely got "lost" in the mix. The tag system is really well done and dramatically improves the roguelike elements over similar titles, allowing you to promote and blacklist tags and giving you a well-balanced level of control of your upgrades against the massive library of choices. I've got a...
Incredible minimalist survivor-like/ bullet heaven. Beautiful, easy to get into and extremely satisfying to explore and hopefully master.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Shape Shifter: Formations scores 64/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2202590/shape-shifter-formationsReviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 27, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.