Factory-building Favourite 'shapez 2' Launches on PC following
700,000 Early Access Sales

MUNICH, GERMANY, 23 April, 2026 — Indie developer tobspr Games officially launched shapez 2, the acclaimed factory-building automation game, on PC via Steam for £24.99 / €28.99 / $29.99, with a 20% launch discount (and extra 10% for shapez owners). After a phenomenal Early Access period that saw over 700,000 copies sold and an “Overwhelmingly Positive” player rating (97%).

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The 1.0 launch introduces several major updates and improvements for shapez 2, including Manufacture Mode, which lets players build large-scale, permanent factories using advanced layouts, resource chains, and Trade Stations, where shapes can be converted by fulfilling specific recipes. Players can also now expand Trade Stations into Classic Mode, adding new milestones, shapes, and challenges across all difficulty levels, while still keeping the Vortex as a central focus.

Other updates include Achievements that encourage experimentation across all game modes, a new Dark Mode feature, upgraded visuals, five new soundtracks and performance improvements for massive factories. The update also adds Modding. The full Steam Workshop support allows players to create, share, and play mods giving the community tools to expand/mod while still tracking progress and rewards.

“The community's response during Early Access has been incredible,” said Tobias Springer, founder of tobspr Games. “We’re so excited for you to play the 1.0 release as we’ve delivered our most polished version of the game yet, introducing a brand new manufacture mode, new automation tools, achievements, performance improvements and countless quality-of-life upgrades.”

Game overview
In shapez 2, players build sprawling automated factories in space to process geometric shapes through increasingly complex production lines. By cutting, stacking, rotating and painting shapes, players must design efficient logistics systems that scale into massive industrial networks. As production demands grow, factories expand across multi-layered platforms, challenging players to continuously optimize and refine their automation

• Multi-Layer 3D Factories: Design and optimize your factories across three building layers for both buildings and platforms
• Multiple Game Modes: Two main game modes and multiple scenarios for both new and veteran players, for example there is the experimental Hexagonal scenario if you’re up for the challenge
• Challenging Shape Mechanics: Discover new shapes types with unique properties and logic
• Open Production Buildings: Build stunning space factories with animated open buildings, so you can always see exactly what’s going on, or going wrong
• Research System: Unlock new buildings, mechanics & upgrades that open up new ways to build your factory
• Blueprint Library: Save, load, export and share factory design blueprints with anyone
• Full modding support: Discover new ways to play and tailor the game to your needs
• Easy controls: Effortlessly cut, copy & paste parts of your factory and undo & redo up to 50 operations with intuitive keyboard controls

For full launch notes, visit the developer blog on Steam.

Media assets can be found here.

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About shapez 2
shapez 2 is a top-down factory-building game where you extract and process geometric shapes. Each shape has its own set of building-blocks that your factories can take apart, stack, paint and put back together in unique ways. Automate the processing of geometric shapes, build massive factories and optimize them to solve increasingly complex logistics and automation tasks! shapez 2 is financially supported by the German Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space  as part of the federal government's computer games funding.

The game’s predecessor, shapez, is a 2D factory-building and automation game that sold more than 1,200,000 units on Steam and attracted more than 10 million players to its demo on shapez.io. It laid the foundation for shapez 2, which introduces 3D visuals and a visually enticing space setting, as well as a wide variety of other tweaks to further improve player satisfaction. With over 700,000 sales on Steam, shapez 2 is one of the most purchased and highest rated factory building games on the platform with 97% positive reviews.

About tobspr Games
tobspr Games is an independent game development studio from Germany that was founded in 2018 by Tobias Springer. The company began as a hobby with a focus on webgames: the studio’s first game was a tower defense game called "YORG.io". After it became clear that a much larger player base could be built on Steam, the concept switched to a hybrid approach: a demo on the web and full version on Steam.

Since the success of both shapez and shapez 2 the focus is now 100% on the factory automation genre for the studio, with the ambition to push the genre even further.

Press Contact
Abe Foster
abe@game-drive.nl