
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.
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Every price cut of more than 20% we have observed, in each market that quoted one, with this game's chart position on either side of it. These are episodes, not a model: a sale is one event, and one event cannot tell you what the next one will do.
Reviews, worldwide (the counter carries no country): 0/day in the week to Aug 4 → 0.14/day in the week after.
For scale, across Steam · Top Sellers · Brazil over the last 30 days: the 25 chart moves that followed a price cut of more than 20% went a median of 10 places towards #1, and the 2,413 moves with no price cut behind them went 2 away. One store, one chart, one country — it is the only place we have enough observations to say even that.
Prices outside the United States have been collected since 6 August 2026 and chart positions since 19 July 2026, so a cut older than that has no market to compare and a market that joined later has no history yet. Nothing here is converted between currencies.
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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.
Choose from a wide variety of ships each with their own unique active and passive abilities, ranging from shocking tesla towers and a burning laser, to clones that mirror your attacks or the ability to slow time around you. Pick the ship the suits your play style and outfit it with a weapon of your choice. Every ship and weapon has it's own unique skill tree, allowing you to alter and improve the way they play via changing abilities/passives and gaining new ones.
Survive against swarms of enemies before fighting challenging bullet-hell bosses each with their own unique attacks and abilities. Customize your own difficulty with many modifiers from electrifying the walls, to giving enemies elemental infusions. Higher difficulties can unlock prime boss variants for an even greater challenge and further rewards.
Gain experience by killing enemies to improve your ship with infinitely stacking upgrades that allow you to tailor your build as you play. Inflict a barrage of status effects on your enemies, or summon a swarm of constructs with their own weaponry. Extensive meta-progression between runs allows you to gain permanent upgrades, new game mechanics, and tons of new ships, weapons, and upgrades for future runs.
Play solo or in 2 player local co-op.
20 Ships and 20 Weapons to choose from each with their own abilities and playstyle.
Unique skill trees for every ship and weapon totalling 800 skills.
200+ infinitely stacking upgrades to craft your build each run.
Expansive skill tree and meta-progression that provides permanent upgrades and new mechanics for every run.
Granular difficulty system to modify many aspects of the run.
Unlock new upgrades, weapons and ships by completing challenges.
Manual twin-stick gameplay. (With an optional auto-aim mode for those that prefer.)
Short 30 minute runs, with an optional endless mode.
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The core gameplay is smooth and nice. Effects, sounds, visuals are cool. The RNG is horrible. I don't need 19 upgrades to my Corrosion damage because I wasn't offered a way to apply Corrosion even once. I decided to go with crit and crit chance. I got 2 upgrades for crit chance. Cool! The rest of the game offered me upgrades that reduce crit chance or do different things. Amazing, thanks. So, it's so much uncontrolled and uncurrated RNG that I hate every level up. On top of that, no auto-fire option. I don't need auto-aim. I just want to be able to NOT HOLD the LMB for 20 minutes. There are tons of other small things that make me mad. But the top two are already enough to uninstall.
Full Video Review: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wImWVwgUcU This game does take a little bit to get going but once you’ve unlocked most of the skills in the skill tree, the game becomes fantastic. Not only are in-game upgrades very interesting and allow a crazy amount of diversity, but the game allows players to reroll, banish, lock, transmutate and dual select upgrades resulting in some actual thought provoking strategies when leveling up throughout the entire run. I cannot remember the last time I had a Bullet Heaven game get me this excited about choosing upgrades even throughout the late game. With the very impressive amount of unlocks and pre-run customization options, I see myself coming back to this game often. Definitely one of my highest recommandations for my series 🌶️
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Languages: English**languages with full audio support
Hours played at review time, across 42 reviews with recorded playtime.
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Great game. One of the few that I enjoyed enough to 100%. I've won a run with every ship and every weapon at mastery level 50, which is not something I thought I would have enough interest to do at the start. Let that be a testament to its great game-play and replayability. The game plays well and performance is solid. There are some odd UI behaviours when in the pause menu or start menu, as well as one skill tree item which is fully functional but has a title of "TBD" for some reason. My only real gripe is that there is no option to auto-fire (separate from auto-aim). 95% of the game is holding the mouse button. I get why auto-aim could be controversial but I think auto-fire would be purely QoL.
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 lot of bullet heaven titles in my collection, and this one is hands-down my favorite. Hope more people get a chance to play it.
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.
It's pretty good for that Geometry Wars fix.
This brings me back to the Geometry Wars days back on Xbox 360. Great game to sink a few hours into. The unlock progression is great and the continued support from the devs keeps the game fresh!
Fun game. One of those games that really scratches the "Gauntlet" (old school versions) power fantasy itch I used to go crazy about so many years ago, combined with the "big damage numbers" dopamine hit that you get when you slowly start feeling like a god. And the number of item "cards" rivals what I experienced in the first Heroes of Hammerwatch, with how so many things you can get that keep driving the power fantasy, all while being in an Arena shooter format. Having a great time here.
Incredible minimalist survivor-like/ bullet heaven. Beautiful, easy to get into and extremely satisfying to explore and hopefully master.
Extremely fun twin stick shooter that is easy to get into. The progression feels really satisfying as you start with a weak little triangle and got stronger and stronger later in the game and get to see all the flashy effects in the late game! Love the meta progression system too as no run feels like it's wasted.
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