shapez 2 - Factory

it gets repetitive after 4th goal, and all upgrades are unlocked through mass producing 2 of the shapes.

Amazingly chill logic puzzle game that incentivizes progression without pressure.

Amazing game. Love the 3d aspect of this. It pretty cool you can just stack two layers of cutters on top of each other and then get a massive efficiency boost. I would absolutely recommend it. Runs perfectly 50-60fps with graphics Extreme setting whilst running using 16GB RAM and an RX 9060 XT 16GB and an 4th gen i7. Only during start it does not respond quite a lot, but when the mainmenu has loaded it's fine. Do note that you should leave Limit FPS to disabled when using VSync, otherwise it will still do screentearing (even when the limit fps is set to the same fps as your screen).

I got this game based on my love of Factorio and my experience of the preceding Shapez game. The first game was a fun little puzzle game that made a good time-waster while I was listening to a podcast or doing something else on my other monitor. This game fleshes out that simple puzzle game into a fully-fledged (sort of -- more on that in a moment) logistics sim. As a Factorio player, I appreciated the focus of this game on pure logistics and puzzle-solving. No enemies, no resource sinks, no power-generation or running out of raw materials. But therein lies the problem, ultimately. Shapez 2 is a fun game, but at some point you'll have a full blueprint stack to make anything you want, and at that point the challenge kind of evaporates. The game just boils down to plunking down various blueprint modules and watching numbers slowly tick up. The whole puzzle-solving aspect of the game evaporates around the midpoint and past that you're just trying to make numbers go bigger by parallelizing your factory designs to produce more output. But then again: this is the *point* of real-world logistics. Reduce friction, standardize process, scale up delivery. "Winning" means getting the most stuff from point A to point B the fastest until some arbitrary point is achieved. Shapez 2 is a good game, and quite fun if you enjoy the logistics aspects of other factory games, but it starts to feel quite thin as the game goes along. For example, the whole train system is underbaked and really needs an overhaul to improve routing and traffic control. It would have been nice to have an early-game guided tutorial scenario rather than relying on "jobs" to teach fundamental concepts -- I eschewed doing jobs for a long time until I got hung up conceptually on crystals, and then realized that had I been ignoring the jobs before rushing the milestones, it would have taught me the concepts I needed to understand crystals. Yes, this was my fault for skipping the jobs, but the game really needs to improve how progression works in the early game. The game runs very smoothly on my fairly low-spec PC (I'm using it on Linux via Proton) using the Vulkan renderer. I did have some stuttering early on, but once I changed the rendering threads setting from "Auto" to "4" the problem went away. Graphics are simple, but nice and clean -- and the UI scales nicely if you are sight-impaired or just want bigger (or smaller) on-screen UI components. Sound is good, though it does get a bit repetitious after awhile -- I ended up muting it after the first dozen hours or so. So: fun game, but it's got some rough edges. I recommend it, but be aware that it's nowhere near as comprehensive (or complex!) as Factorio or other top factory games. I recommend it, but keep your expectations in check. It's intended to be a less-stressful, chill sort of experience, and it achieves that goal for the most part.

Jogo incrivel

Great game. It's game that makes you undo and redo layouts until you lose all sanity. Reaching that top production is like a drug when all the goals are so high. It is as if the clock has stopped and you are going 100mph and don't realize that 5 hours has past and you're still on the same job. The level of planning ahead is so critical because you didn't notice that you needed that same shape 10 jobs later. It has me dragged in I can not stop until I finish a job. Once you start there is no going back. 10/10 would recommend.

The first one took all my time. Now the second one is taking it but somehow even faster. This game is amazing and such a prize. Honestly such a great game. I am kinda jealous how the devloper pulled a second game this good