shapez
Short description
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!
- Developer
- Tobias Springer
- Publisher
- Doyoyo Games, tobspr Games
- Release
- Sun, Jun 07, 2020
- Price
- $9.99
- Reviews
- 14,349
- Positive
- 96%
- Followers
- 20,868
- Owners (estimated)
- 200K – 500K
- Concurrent players
- 328
- Genres
- Casual, Indie, Simulation, Strategy
- Features
- Adjustable Text Size, Camera Comfort, Color Alternatives, Custom Volume Controls, Keyboard Only Option, Mouse Only Option, Playable without Timed Input, Save Anytime, Subtitle Options
- Tags
Review count and SteamSpy's owner range agree well enough to narrow the estimate down to this band. Multiplied by $6.72, the average price these copies actually sold for — weighted from the price history rather than taken from the $9.99 launch price. That is 33% below list price on average. Before Steam's cut, VAT and refunds. How these numbers are calculated.
Waiting for shapez to get cheaper? Name your price and we will email you when it gets there.
Media
History
28 data points since Oct 5, 2026. Gaps mean nothing changed — the value carries forward.
The revenue curve is an estimate, not a measurement. It is the only calculated series here: each interval takes the review growth of that period, multiplies it by the sales-per-review factor and by the price actually charged at the time, and adds the result to the running total. That is why it climbs more slowly through discount periods than the review curve next to it. The last point is the same figure quoted above — gross, before Steam's cut, VAT and refunds. How these numbers are calculated.
Lowest recorded price: $0.99 on Jul 15, 2024.
Similar games that found an audience
Games sharing at least 3 of this title's leading tags, with enough reviews to have gone somewhere. Ranked by how much they overlap, not by how big they are. − missing and + extra mark the tags each one does not share with shapez. Studio counts the titles that developer has released — the closest thing to production scale that public data allows. It is not a budget, and nobody publishes those.
| Image | Name | Studio | Shared | Tag difference | Price | Reviews | Positive | Released | Revenue (estimated) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Factorio | Wube Software LTD. first game | 6 | same tags | $35.00 | 192,850 | 98% | Fri, Aug 14, 2020 | $266m $153m – $307m |
|
Factory Town | Erik Asmussen 4 titles | 5 | − Strategy + Simulation | $19.99 | 4,135 | 91% | Wed, Nov 17, 2021 | $3.7m $3.7m – $6.2m |
|
Mindustry | AnukenDev first game | 4 | − Sandbox − Crafting + Tower Defense + Multiplayer | $9.99 | 24,937 | 96% | Thu, Sep 26, 2019 | $8.9m $8m – $15.9m |
|
Techtonica | Fire Hose Games 7 titles | 4 | − Sandbox − Crafting + Simulation + Building | $29.99 | 3,057 | 65% | Thu, Nov 07, 2024 | $3.2m $2.3m – $4.7m |
|
Outpath | David Moralejo Sánchez 9 titles | 4 | − Automation − Resource Management + Simulation + Pixel Graphics | $14.99 | 2,866 | 93% | Mon, Oct 16, 2023 | $1.8m $1.4m – $2.7m |
There are more like this. Your plan shows the 5 closest neighbours; Plus and Pro show up to 100 — enough to see the shape of a niche instead of a sample of it.