AACHEN, GERMANY, July 23, 2024 — tobspr Games is excited to announce that top-down factory-building game shapez 2, the successor to shapez, is launching into Steam Early Access on August 15th and has just passed 300,000 wishlists! Budding factory builders can look forward to creating their labyrinths of space conveyor belts to feed their shapes to the mysterious vortex soon.
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shapez 2 will be available to play in Steam Early Access on August 15th! Create sleek space factories to break shapes down and form completely different ones. With infinite resources and no construction costs, everybody can enjoy the game and solve production puzzles at their own pace. Doing so unlocks new technologies with which you can create increasingly complex shapes to feed to the vortex. There are no predetermined recipes in shapez 2 — buildings perform simple functions such as cutting shapes in half, changing their color or stacking them, so it’s up to you to find a way to transform basic circles and squares into all kinds of colorful shapes.
The game starts out small and lets you use the skills you learn as you play to build larger and more complicated factories. These make up platforms that you can then connect with the help of space belts. Eventually you’ll be able to transport shapes even farther (and faster) with trains — a first for shapez! shapez 2 also introduces 3D gameplay, allowing you to layer up to three belts on top of each other for you to further optimize your factory. You can look into the layers to keep an eye on things from the outside, or if you just want to take a short break from all your hard work.
At Early Access launch, you can play shapez 2 in four different gameplay modes: Normal, Hard, Insane and an experimental Hexagonal mode in which shapes have six sides instead of four. If you’re looking for an even bigger challenge than the Insane scenario, you can customize the settings of other modes and add extra restrictions. tobspr Games has made sure the game is already polished enough for you to enjoy its visuals at any scale and enjoy the satisfying, intuitive gameplay as you sink potentially hundreds of hours into it. Until the full release, the developer will add even more modes and content as they continue to work on the game.
Tobias Springer, founder of tobspr Games, said, “We’re proud to have reached the point where shapez 2 is ready to be released in Early Access. The game already offers players a full-fledged experience worthy of a full launch — now we’re going to take the time to continue polishing the game and add more content until we’re completely satisfied with what we’ve created. We’re thankful for our passionate community that is just as invested in this game as we are and will help us shape the game even further during the Early Access period. Without our players we could not have made it this far to begin with.”
During Early Access, shapez 2 can be purchased for $24.99 / €24.99 / £20.99. For those looking to offer the developer additional support while also sprucing up their game can acquire the Supporter Edition for $34.99 / €34.99 / £29.99. This includes the base game, cosmetic rail twisters and loops, plus an extra 40 minutes of soundtrack for you to enjoy both in and outside of the game. Fans can already wishlist the Supporter Edition as they wait for the launch. If you’d like to try shapez 2 first and get the extra content later, you can always purchase the Supporter Edition Upgrade DLC for $9.99 / €9.99 / £8.99. All of these will have a 10% discount in the first two weeks after launch.
For moreinformation on the development of shapez 2, check out the Steam devblogs.
Press and influencers can contact Game Drive for more information or to request a key of the shapez 2 in advance.
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About shapez 2
shapez 2 is a top-down factory-building game where you extract and process geometric shapes. Each shape has its own set of building-blocks that your factories can take apart, stack, paint and put back together in unique ways. Automate the processing of geometric shapes, build massive factories and optimize them to solve increasingly complex logistics and automation tasks! shapez 2 is financially supported by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action as part of the federal government's computer games funding.
shapez is a 2D factory-building and automation game that is all about the creation of increasingly complex shapes across an infinitely expanding map. It laid the foundation of shapez 2, which introduces 3D visuals and a visually enticing space setting, as well as a wide variety of other tweaks to further improve player satisfaction. It sold more than 650,000 units on Steam and attracted more than 10 million players to its demo on shapez.io.
With over 300,000 wishlists on Steam, sequel shapez 2 has become one of the 100 most-wishlisted games on Steam. Fans of automation, logistics, train and logic games cannot wait to get their hands on this one — and they can do so on August 15th when the game releases in Early Access.
Features at release
- Multi-Layer 3D Factories: Design and optimize your factories in a whole new dimension
- Trains: Connect distant stations with a network of space trains
- Research System: Unlock buildings, mechanics & upgrades in the all-new tech tree
- New Shape Mechanics: Discover new shapes types with unique properties and logic
- Blueprint Library: Save, load, export and share factory design blueprints with anyone
- All-new Visuals: Build factories and stations in a stunning immersive space environment
- Fluids: Use different types of liquids to process shapes or boost production
- Animated Open Buildings: See exactly what's happening inside buildings in your factory
- Easy editing: Cutting, cloning, rotating and destroying sections of your factory has never been so intuitive
- Undo/Redo: Gain the ability to undo/redo unwanted operations
About tobspr Games
tobspr Games is an independent game development studio from Germany that was founded in 2018 by Tobias Springer. The company began as a hobby with a focus on webgames: the studio’s first game was a tower defense game called "YORG.io". After it became clear that a much larger player base could be built on Steam, the concept switched to a hybrid approach: demo on the web and full version on Steam.
Since the success of shapez the focus is now 100% on Steam. The team behind the studio continues to expand as it concentrates on shapez 2.
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