Imagine a world where the thrill of automation meets creativity! In the realm of gaming, few titles encapsulate this excitement as well as Shapez 2. This unique automation game invites players to delve into the intricacies of building factories that focus not just on the end result but on the fascinating processes that lead there. As you embark on this journey, you’ll discover the joy of constructing complex layouts and optimizing production lines in a pressure-free environment!
In Shapez 2, players are not merely tasked with producing shapes; they are encouraged to explore the depths of automation. The game starts with simple tasks, gradually introducing more advanced machines and colorful components. As you navigate through the game, you'll learn that it's not just about the shapes you create but the creative journey of making your factory run smoothly and efficiently.
One of the standout features of Shapez 2 is its accessibility. Whether you’re a seasoned gamer or a newcomer to the automation genre, the game provides a welcoming environment for all. There’s no pressure to build the biggest or fastest factories; instead, you can take your time to experiment and enjoy the process of creation. So, prepare to unleash your inner engineer as you embark on this captivating adventure!
What You Will Learn
- In Shapez 2, the focus is on the process of automation, not the outcome of shapes tossed into the void at the heart of the factory.
- The game starts simple with conveyors to the void but quickly scales up with new machines, colored pieces, trains, and more options.
- Shapez 2 caters to both automation newbies and mega-factory fans, providing a pressure-free environment to build and organize efficient layouts.
One of the secrets of the factory gaming genre is that it doesn't matter what the end product is. So long as the whirlsplat gets X number of deelyboppers and trundlehorses per minute, transforming them into the needed dizzydeelys to keep the bundlehopper fully supplied, it’s good. What are these products and machines? Who cares? It’s all going according to plan to feed the most important directive of all: the factory must grow! The process is everything and the output only matters to the extent that it works towards supplying the factory's goals, so whether it’s rods and plates and casings and electronics, or bits and bobs and thingies and whatnots, as long as the process of transforming each component into the next is internally logical it all works out.
When It's More Fun to Build Things Than Have Things
Shapez 2 is an automation game where the abstract results of the assembly process get tossed into the void at the heart of the factory because the point is the process rather than its output. The game starts with a large platform floating in space at the heart of what will eventually be a bustle of interacting machines, with the large void sitting in the center. Four other platforms are connected at the north, south, east, and west points, two of which provide circles and the other two supplying squares. The initial factory requests are simple enough; just run a conveyor or two to the void, but soon enough machines show up to cut, rotate, and combine the pieces into new shapes. And then things scale up rapidly.
Initially, all machines and conveyors are placed on the ground, but soon a second layer is added for double-decker piece processing. When a conveyor can feed four cutters at once and you want four lines of shapes active, it’s a lot easier to have eight cutters on one level and eight on another than trying to manage a row of sixteen. Different machines also process at different speeds, so you might have four cutters feeding six stackers, except that doesn’t really work because while one conveyor may feed four cutters they output two half-pieces, so twelve stackers makes more sense. The math can get messy, but a robust blueprint system means you can create one string of devices and copy/paste it down the line rather than be stuck individually placing a million buildings.
Soon enough, new options kick in, such as colored pieces, painters, trains between the endless shape-mines in the infinite space spreading out from the starting base, wires, logic gates, and a whole lot more. The main goals of delivering a specific shape unlock major new upgrades as you complete them, but secondary tasks grant research points that let you buy variations on the different types of machines. The upgrade system also runs off the research points to increase the speed of machines, which can but doesn’t have to involve new math to figuring out best efficiencies because Shapez 2 isn’t forcing any particular speed on the player. New goals require ever more complicated factories, but whether you’re fast and efficient or slow and steady, as long as the void gets its shapes, everything is going to work out right in the end.
Giant Mega-Factories Welcome But Not Required
Shapez 2 has released into Early Access, and it’s just the start of the automation ahead. The game already plays incredibly smoothly thanks to endless testing from the developer’s Patreon crowd, currently maintaining its framerate with a good hundred thousand objects on screen, and the slowdown only getting to be a problem at 500k. Although numbers like that are for the major factory fans seeing as the game can be completed in the forty-thousand-building range. Automation fans tend to like to build big, though, so a minimum-building win can be just the start of putting Shapez 2 through its paces, especially when the multiple game modes kick in allowing complications like six-piece shapes rather than the standard four or the objectives requiring much more complicated shapes than normal.
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