Games like shapez 2 - Factory
If shapez 2 - Factory is your kind of game, the closest matches are shapez, Satisfactory and Factorio — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its chill, contemplative and cozy. 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 2 - Factory is an upcoming automation-focused factory-builder from tobspr Games, set to release in 2026 at $23.99 USD. Building on its predecessor, this strategy and simulation title introduces hexagonal geometry alongside logic-circuit-building mechanics and nested-factory-design systems where players construct factories that operate within themselves. Multi-tiered-unlocking progression guides players through increasingly sophisticated automation challenges at their own pace. Players describe the experience as chill, contemplative, and relaxing, with reviewers highlighting the satisfaction of building compact machines and the appeal of designing self-running production systems. Blueprint-sharing enables the community to exchange solutions to open-ended automation puzzles. The game supports short-burst sessions with a medium-length campaign and runs in a playable state on Steam Deck. It currently holds a 98% positive rating from 8187 Steam reviews.
About shapez 2 - Factory: 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.
Players who liked shapez 2 - Factory also play
Steam players who put hours into shapez 2 - Factory 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
WHY THIS
Shares a relaxing mood with shapez 2 - Factory.
Top pick for shapez 2 - Factory fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with shapez 2 - Factory.
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!
Satisfactory
WHY THIS
Shares blueprint sharing, factory automation and a contemplative mood with shapez 2 - Factory.
Second-strongest match for shapez 2 - Factory fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with shapez 2 - Factory.
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!
Factorio
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with shapez 2 - Factory.
Third-strongest match for shapez 2 - Factory fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with shapez 2 - Factory.
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.
InfraSpace
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for shapez 2 - Factory fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with shapez 2 - Factory.
Create an extrasolar efficiency utopia from scratch! In this sci-fi city builder you need to start mining operations, plan production, and lay down transportation routes to ensure a smooth supply chain.
Plan B: Terraform
WHY THIS
Shares a chill mood with shapez 2 - Factory.
Ranked #5 for shapez 2 - Factory fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with shapez 2 - Factory.
Terraform a lifeless rock into a lush and habitable world. Build trucks, trains, and sprawling factories on an enormous hexagonal planet. Grow its population to millions. Enjoy a dynamic simulation of atmosphere, temperature, water, and forests.
Super Loco World - Cozy Train Automation
WHY THIS
Shares a chill mood with shapez 2 - Factory.
Ranked #6 for shapez 2 - Factory fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with shapez 2 - Factory.
Effortlessly build and automate intricate railroads and deliver goods to meet the demands of a dynamic world! Make clever use of signals and signposts to avoid traffic jams, and watch your villages blossom into bustling towns in this cozy take on the train tycoon genre.
Factory Town
WHY THIS
Shares a relaxing mood with shapez 2 - Factory.
Ranked #7 for shapez 2 - Factory fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with shapez 2 - Factory.
Build, automate, and optimize a giant factory on 3D terrain using conveyor belts, trains, chutes, pipes, and airships. Sell your goods to nearby villages to expand their borders, increase happiness, and unlock even better technology!
RAILGRADE
WHY THIS
Shares a cozy mood with shapez 2 - Factory.
Ranked #8 for shapez 2 - Factory fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with shapez 2 - Factory.
RAILGRADE is the train RTS game! Construct dense vertical railroads, build cities, construct vast factory chains with train automation! Restore an off world colony's economy all in the intense story driven campaign or relaxing sandbox mode!
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shapez
WHY THIS
Shares a relaxing mood with shapez 2 - Factory.
Reviewers of shapez 2 - Factory cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with shapez 2 - Factory.
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!
Satisfactory
WHY THIS
Shares blueprint sharing, factory automation and a contemplative mood with shapez 2 - Factory.
Reviewers of shapez 2 - Factory cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with shapez 2 - Factory.
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!
Minecraft: Story Mode - A Telltale Games Series
WHY THIS
Reviewers of shapez 2 - Factory 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.
Factorio
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with shapez 2 - Factory.
Reviewers of shapez 2 - Factory cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with shapez 2 - Factory.
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.
Epic Roller Coasters
WHY THIS
Reviewers of shapez 2 - Factory cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Simulation with shapez 2 - Factory.
Epic Roller Coasters is where you will find the most unique roller coasters of the world. Try it out on three different modes: classic, shooter and race. Don't forget to call your friends to ride your favorites roller coasters with you.
Car Manufacture
WHY THIS
Shares a chill mood with shapez 2 - Factory.
Reviewers of shapez 2 - Factory cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with shapez 2 - Factory.
Car Manufacture is an automotive tycoon game. Start in the beginning of the XX century and create thriving business. Build cars, manage people, expand your plant and research new technology. Make tons of money and stay on top.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below shapez 2 - Factory at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~79% under shapez 2 - Factory on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with shapez 2 - Factory.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Lethal Company
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under shapez 2 - Factory on Steam right now. Shares Indie with shapez 2 - Factory.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
Bloons TD 6
WHY THIS
Priced ~42% under shapez 2 - Factory on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with shapez 2 - Factory.
The Bloons are back and better than ever! Get ready for a massive 3D tower defense game designed to give you hours and hours of the best strategy gaming available.
People Playground
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under shapez 2 - Factory on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with shapez 2 - Factory.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~79% under shapez 2 - Factory on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with shapez 2 - Factory.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under shapez 2 - Factory on Steam right now. Shares Indie with shapez 2 - Factory.
PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with shapez 2 - Factory.
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?
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with shapez 2 - Factory.
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.
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 2 - Factory.
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!
Virtual Cottage
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with shapez 2 - Factory.
Virtual Cottage gives you a comfy place to rest and be productive without any distractions. Open the game, set yourself a goal and enjoy the atmosphere.
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with shapez 2 - Factory.
Train a commoner to become the greatest archer in this short incremental game! Increase your stats, gather wealth from quests, buy upgrades, and infuse your arrows with magic.
Coloring Pixels
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with shapez 2 - Factory.
A relaxing coloring by numbers game. Enjoy completing a variety of images with differing themes, complexity, and sizes.
The Lab
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!
An Arcade Full of Cats
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with shapez 2 - Factory.
Journey through gaming history's time and space, while searching for adorable feline companions in 'An Arcade Full of Cats,' the ultimate pet'em up hidden object game.
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Head-to-head comparisons
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Satisfactory
WHY THIS
Shares blueprint sharing, factory automation and a contemplative mood with shapez 2 - Factory.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with shapez 2 - Factory.
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!
Factorio
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with shapez 2 - Factory.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with shapez 2 - Factory.
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.
Super Loco World - Cozy Train Automation
WHY THIS
Shares a chill mood with shapez 2 - Factory.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with shapez 2 - Factory.
Effortlessly build and automate intricate railroads and deliver goods to meet the demands of a dynamic world! Make clever use of signals and signposts to avoid traffic jams, and watch your villages blossom into bustling towns in this cozy take on the train tycoon genre.
Factory Town
WHY THIS
Shares a relaxing mood with shapez 2 - Factory.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with shapez 2 - Factory.
Build, automate, and optimize a giant factory on 3D terrain using conveyor belts, trains, chutes, pipes, and airships. Sell your goods to nearby villages to expand their borders, increase happiness, and unlock even better technology!
RAILGRADE
WHY THIS
Shares a cozy mood with shapez 2 - Factory.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Simulation with shapez 2 - Factory.
RAILGRADE is the train RTS game! Construct dense vertical railroads, build cities, construct vast factory chains with train automation! Restore an off world colony's economy all in the intense story driven campaign or relaxing sandbox mode!
Frequently asked about shapez 2 - Factory
- Does shapez 2 - Factory run on Steam Deck?
- shapez 2 - Factory 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 2 - Factory cost?
- shapez 2 - Factory is listed on Steam at 23.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to shapez 2 - Factory?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside shapez 2 - Factory are shapez, Satisfactory, Factorio.
- Who developed shapez 2 - Factory?
- shapez 2 - Factory was developed by tobspr Games and published by tobspr Games, Gamirror Games.
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