Games like shapez
If shapez is your kind of game, the closest matches are shapez 2 - Factory, Factorio and Satisfactory — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its endless optimization possibilities, minimalist and relaxing gameplay and hypnotic. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →shapez is a minimalist factory-building puzzle released in 2020 by Tobias Springer. Players construct assembly lines to automate the production of increasingly complex geometric shapes, upgrading their factories across an infinitely expanding map. The game combines strategy and simulation elements with automation and resource management mechanics, challenging players to optimize conveyor-belt systems for maximum efficiency. Available for $0.99, the game runs at a chill difficulty designed for short play sessions despite its massive scope. Players describe the gameplay as hypnotic and relaxing, praising its endless optimization possibilities and minimalist approach to factory simulation. The game holds a 96% positive rating from over 8,200 Steam reviews and is playable on Steam Deck.
About shapez: 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!
Players who liked shapez also play
Steam players who put hours into shapez also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.
shapez 2 - Factory
WHY THIS
Shares a relaxing mood with shapez.
Top pick for shapez fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with shapez.
Dive into a factory-building game with the focus on just that – building huge space factories! Design sprawling multi-level factories and satisfying production lines without limits. Tackle progressively challenging automation goals at your own pace, without the threat of enemies.
Factorio
WHY THIS
Shares a hypnotic mood with shapez.
Second-strongest match for shapez fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with shapez.
Factorio is a game about building and creating automated factories to produce items of increasing complexity, within an infinite 2D world. Use your imagination to design your factory, combine simple elements into ingenious structures, and finally protect it from the creatures who don't really like you.
Satisfactory
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for shapez fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with shapez.
Satisfactory is a first-person open-world factory building game with a dash of exploration and combat. Play alone or with friends, explore an alien planet, create multi-story factories, and enter conveyor belt heaven!
Assemblands
WHY THIS
Shares a relaxing mood with shapez.
Ranked #4 for shapez fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with shapez.
Build your factory from zero and produce high-tech products like drones, PC, robots and compete against thousands of players.
Learning Factory
WHY THIS
Shares a relaxing mood with shapez.
Ranked #5 for shapez fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with shapez.
Build intricate supply chains to meet your feline customers' needs. Discover underground and air transport layers, a vast research tree, procedural worlds, machine learning, and endless automation in this relaxing, enemyless game.
Automate It: Factory Puzzle
WHY THIS
Shares a hypnotic mood with shapez.
Ranked #6 for shapez fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with shapez.
Automate It is a factory-building puzzle game that challenges players to find clever solutions within size, power, and time constraints. Design, build, and share your own puzzles with other players. If you want to build it - choose Automate It.
Flotsam
WHY THIS
Shares a relaxing mood with shapez.
Ranked #7 for shapez fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with shapez.
Sail, scavenge, and rescue survivors in a vibrant floating city-builder. Captain your drifters across the endless garbage sea to uncover soaked ruins, rusting factories, and stories from the old world.
Timberborn
WHY THIS
Shares a relaxing mood with shapez.
Ranked #8 for shapez fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with shapez.
Humans are long gone. In a world struck by droughts and toxic waste, will your lumberpunk beavers do any better? A sandbox city-building game featuring ingenious animals, vertical architecture, water physics, and terraforming. Contains high amounts of wood.
Reviewers mention these as similar to shapez
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Factorio
WHY THIS
Shares a hypnotic mood with shapez.
Reviewers of shapez cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with shapez.
Factorio is a game about building and creating automated factories to produce items of increasing complexity, within an infinite 2D world. Use your imagination to design your factory, combine simple elements into ingenious structures, and finally protect it from the creatures who don't really like you.
Minecraft: Story Mode - A Telltale Games Series
WHY THIS
Reviewers of shapez cross-mention this title as a similar play.
Episode 1 is now FREE - for a limited time! In Minecraft: Story Mode, playing as either a male or female hero named 'Jesse,' you’ll embark on a perilous adventure across the Overworld, through the Nether, to the End, and beyond.
Satisfactory
WHY THIS
Reviewers of shapez cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with shapez.
Satisfactory is a first-person open-world factory building game with a dash of exploration and combat. Play alone or with friends, explore an alien planet, create multi-story factories, and enter conveyor belt heaven!
Rocket League®
WHY THIS
Reviewers of shapez cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with shapez.
Rocket League is a high-powered hybrid of arcade-style soccer and vehicular mayhem with easy-to-understand controls and fluid, physics-driven competition. Rocket League includes casual and competitive Online Matches, a fully-featured offline Season Mode, special “Mutators” that let you change the rules entirely, hockey and...
Turing Complete
WHY THIS
Reviewers of shapez cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Simulation with shapez.
Learn CPU architecture with puzzles
Opus Magnum
WHY THIS
Shares a hypnotic mood with shapez.
Reviewers of shapez cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Simulation with shapez.
Opus Magnum is the latest open-ended puzzle game from Zachtronics, the creators of SpaceChem, Infinifactory, and SHENZHEN I/O. Design and build machines that assemble potions, poisons, and more using the alchemical engineer’s most advanced tool: the transmutation engine!
Screeps: World
WHY THIS
Reviewers of shapez cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with shapez.
Screeps: World is an open source MMO strategy sandbox game for programming enthusiasts. You control your colony by writing JavaScript code that operates 24/7 in the huge persistent online open world.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below shapez at current Steam store prices.
Miss Neko
WHY THIS
Priced ~51% under shapez on Steam right now. Shares Casual with shapez.
Together the full picture of all the lovely beast ladies with your own hands, play Yakyuken with them, collect their portraits. Hope you have a relaxing and enjoyable game time:)
QUICKERFLAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~51% under shapez on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with shapez.
QUICKERFLAK is an experimental fast-paced time-attack top-down combat retro-hardcore minigame, that can be finished in a minute.
Save Jesus
WHY THIS
Priced ~51% under shapez on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with shapez.
Someone is trying to murder Jesus. Disguised as Caesar with the Roman Empire by his side, an evil impostor from the future has set hundreds of deadly traps. Redirect the traps, kill the Romans and protect Jesus!
Gachi Heroes
WHY THIS
Priced ~51% under shapez on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with shapez.
Gachi Heroes is a game about the dark fantasies. That's amazing an endlass journey in which you will know yourself with your favorite gachimuchi characters. How deep would you go?
Trip to Vinelands
WHY THIS
Priced ~51% under shapez on Steam right now. Shares Indie with shapez.
Trip to Vinelands is an arcade retro hardcore maze wanderer minigame.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with shapez.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with shapez.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with shapez.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with shapez.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
missed messages.
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with shapez.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
NGU IDLE
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with shapez.
NGU Idle is a Free To Play Idle game that's full of weird humor, tons of upgrades and hundreds of hours of content! Try out NGU Idle today and experience the joy of Numbers Going Up!
Travellin Cats in Paris
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with shapez.
Find 100 cats hidden in Paris, France in this cute hand-drawn hidden object game by Travellin Cats - the original viral hidden cat game creator!
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More from Tobias Springer
Other recommendable Steam games by Tobias Springer, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
YORG.io
WHY THIS
Another title from Tobias Springer, the studio behind shapez. Shares Strategy and Indie with shapez.
YORG.io is a game with an original twist on supply chains and zombies. Your goal is to build a base which survives the night which is when zombies attack. Build and upgrade defensive towers to protect your base and try to survive as long as possible.
YORG.io 3
WHY THIS
Another title from Tobias Springer, the studio behind shapez. Shares Strategy and Indie with shapez.
Defend, Attack, Survive! Build up your base and defeat the zombies with this unique combination of tower defense, base building and supply chain management. Now with multiplayer, mods and loads of new content!
schoolbreak.io
WHY THIS
Another title from Tobias Springer, the studio behind shapez. Shares Indie and Simulation with shapez.
Play quick 5 minute rounds with 6-10 players online as you try to make the greatest mess ever seen - but keep an eye out for teachers... and don't forget to frame Timothy for it - you don't want to end up stuck in detention.
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Factorio
WHY THIS
Shares a hypnotic mood with shapez.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with shapez.
Factorio is a game about building and creating automated factories to produce items of increasing complexity, within an infinite 2D world. Use your imagination to design your factory, combine simple elements into ingenious structures, and finally protect it from the creatures who don't really like you.
Satisfactory
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with shapez.
Satisfactory is a first-person open-world factory building game with a dash of exploration and combat. Play alone or with friends, explore an alien planet, create multi-story factories, and enter conveyor belt heaven!
Learning Factory
WHY THIS
Shares a relaxing mood with shapez.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with shapez.
Build intricate supply chains to meet your feline customers' needs. Discover underground and air transport layers, a vast research tree, procedural worlds, machine learning, and endless automation in this relaxing, enemyless game.
Flotsam
WHY THIS
Shares a relaxing mood with shapez.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with shapez.
Sail, scavenge, and rescue survivors in a vibrant floating city-builder. Captain your drifters across the endless garbage sea to uncover soaked ruins, rusting factories, and stories from the old world.
Frequently asked about shapez
- Does shapez run on Steam Deck?
- shapez is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does shapez cost?
- shapez is listed on Steam at 0.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to shapez?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside shapez are shapez 2 - Factory, Factorio, Satisfactory.
- Who developed shapez?
- shapez was developed by Tobias Springer and published by tobspr Games, Doyoyo Games.
imho.run ranks Steam game alternatives using a mix of collaborative filtering (ALS / iALS / EASE / LightGCN), content scoring over genres, categories, Steam tags, developers, and publishers, plus AI-extracted vibes mined from review text. The page above is generated in seed mode anchored on shapez.
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