shapez 2 - Factory

Great game, but still waiting for Steamdeck support...

没耐心的人还是别玩了，我就是那个没耐心的，浪费了两小时来不及退款了

Quite shallow, really not my kind of game, the gameplay loop is just not fun

纯粹的自动化游戏，新鲜感过了之后，就会发现这游戏没啥正反馈。 解决了谜题，优化了生产线，奖励你的是更难的谜题，更复杂的设施，然后你需要做的就是继续优化生产线，解决更难的谜题，无穷无尽。 这个不能说是缺点，但是很容易会腻。如果放下一段时间再打开就会“卧槽，这是啥玩意啊。” [spoiler]有没有一种可能，其实旋涡就是一个巨型的垃圾桶。[/spoiler]

Seems like a great game but the Steam Deck experience is quite poor. I don't think it's really worth it if you'e not playing with keyboard and mouse, which is a shame.

This is the kind of niche game that will either [i]really[/i] grab you or you won't care about; I'm definitely in the former camp myself! That part is a matter of taste, but objectively the game has great UX, which is incredibly important for getting into a game like this: you don't want to constantly be fighting the interface when you're focused on building, and it's clear the developers put a lot of thought into making interactions as smooth as possible in such a complex game. The general aesthetic is also very nice, simple and pleasant to look at, without becoming too plain and boring; you can just sit around mesmerized looking at things moving around... Admittedly the game does feel like it loses a bit of steam once you go through your first playthrough and experience all the mechanics it has to offer; but that already takes 30+ hours, and there's levels of complexity and additional challenges on top of that to try, so there is plenty to do if you get into it. Despite being out of Early Access, the game does have some minor bugs still, but the devs seem to be very actively working on fixing these. They also seem to be adding new modes and other content. If you like these kinds of factory games, it's definitely worth the money!

I've been enjoying this game for a while. It's a fun, addictive factory builder where I have to think about how to make something, but more importantly how to do it optimally. I've been playing on the Hard Campaign, because I've had experience with the original game, and I was doing pretty good. Everything made sense. ...and then I got to Milestone 5. Pins. The VERY FIRST STEP requires you to do something that is not explained ANYWHERE in the game. You are vaguely informed of the mechanics you need to abuse to get it to work... one time. One sentence in the Codex that tells you that "Stacking beyond the limit of 4 destroys excess layers. This can be used to your advantage in later stages." You are given this fact at the beginning of the game. Which for me, was 30 hours of gameplay and several weeks ago, and has not been used a single time in those 30 hours of gameplay. This is such an out-of-left-field requirement and knowledge check that I had to look up what I am expected to do. And even after looking it up, I still don't get it. Having the very first thing you are asked to do with a brand new mechanic being an obscure advanced technique that goes against everything else you've done in the game up to that point would be fine if previous milestones were similar. But no. When you unlock painting, you're asked to paint half of a shape, which is easily done by cutting the shape in half, painting one half, and re-stacking them. Paint MIXING you don't even have to do until the third step. But pins? You're somehow supposed to deduce that, by particularly adding pins. stacking, and cutting in a specific order using specific shapes, you can turn what has been introduced to you as a Support Beam into what is essentially a glorified shape. And again, this would be FINE if it was a special challenge found way later on into the game. But it's not. It's the first thing the game asks you to do once unlocking pins. But I could look past all of that. I could roll my eyes, and go "Okay, I guess we're supposed to see it as its own shape, and not something we add to another shape." I would be FINE. If the VERY NEXT STEP DIDN'T TELL YOU TO IGNORE THAT IT EVER HAPPENED AT ALL, GIVES YOU A MUCH EASIER SCENARIO, AND NEVER MAKES YOU USE IT AGAIN. The next time you need to have a pin by itself is for Job 36, and by then you have a much easier, much more well explained and way more intuitive way to get one. It just feels like such a glaring oversight, having what feels like an enormous "screw you" for unlocking a new mechanic, that it should have been altered in some way. It's a brand new mechanic that wasn't in the first game, don't make the player do an extremely specific niche trick to finish the first objective, and then immediately backpedal and make all the extra effort you put in worthless at the very next step. I really hope nothing else in the game is as poorly done as this milestone, because I've enjoyed myself up until this point, and evidently since the game is acting like this step doesn't exist, maybe it hopes I will forget that it made step 1 of the first new shape mechanic you recieved in the game into a puzzle that doesn't feel like what I'm doing is intended. It doesn't feel intuitive. It wasn't fun. And it's not something that I would expect from an otherwise relaxing and completed game. Please change it.

Glorified puzzle game, not factory/automation