I like a very good manufacturing unit sport, however there is a high-quality line between “I take pleasure in this” and “I’m uninstalling this earlier than it ruins my yr.” I can not inform on which aspect of the divide Shapez 2 will fall, however I am planning on discovering out when it launches in Early Entry subsequent month on August fifteenth.
This is the Early Entry announcemnt trailer from earlier this week:
Like most manufacturing unit video games, Shapez 2 is about laying down conveyor belts to hold gadgets between equipment that alters these gadgets in some capability. The distinction is that as an alternative of rendering one sort of ore into one other, Shapez is all about… shapes. That permits the sport to broaden the doable options, with no predetermined recipes for the objects you are making an attempt to create. As an alternative, it offers you machines that carry out easy, elementary actions – chopping a form in half, altering its color, rotating it, and many others. – which you’ll be able to puzzle out methods to mix.
The second compelling aspect to me is that the equipment is free to plonk down, and sources are infinite. It is extra of a pure puzzle sport, nearer the Opus Magnum finish of the spectrum than the Factorio finish. That is the place I stay. (Ollie, who lives in each manufacturing unit doable, beloved the Shapez 2 Subsequent Fest demo.)
I did not play the unique Shapez (which has overwhelmingly optimistic critiques and presently prices lower than £1 on Steam) however I admit, the leap to 3D presentation does make the sequel appear extra approachable. You will discover Shapez 2 additionally on Steam, the place it is aiming to be in Early Entry for round six months.
