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In ShapeHero Factory, you’re the engineer of an ever-evolving paint-fuelled factory that spits out magical, shape-based warriors. Send them into battle - to death or glory - then build an even better factory on your next run.

ShapeHero Factory is a early access, base-building and automation game developed and published by Asobism.Co. and Ltd.
Released on September 17th 2025 is available on Windows and MacOS in 12 languages: English, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Polish, Russian, Traditional Chinese, Korean, Portuguese - Brazil and Turkish.

It has received 614 reviews of which 544 were positive and 70 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.3 out of 10. 😎

The game is currently priced at 23.99€ on Steam.

The Steam community has classified ShapeHero Factory into these genres:

Early Access Base-Building Automation Tower Defense Rogue-lite Resource Management 2.5D Building Cute Fantasy Simulation Bullet Hell Auto Battler Strategy Rogue-like Puzzle Crafting Atmospheric Top-Down Inventory Management

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System requirements

These are the minimum specifications needed to play the game. For the best experience, we recommend that you verify them.

Windows
  • Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
  • OS: Windows 10 64bit
  • Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-8400 CPU
  • Memory: 8 GB RAM
  • Graphics: Intel UHD Graphics 630
  • Storage: 1 GB available space
MacOS
  • OS: macOS Mojave 10.14+
  • Processor: Apple Silicon, x64 architecture with SSE2.
  • Memory: 8 GB RAM
  • Graphics: Metal capable Intel and AMD GPUs.
  • Storage: 1 GB available space

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Oct. 2025
*Updated review after original* Fun, simple (then gets complex/hard), and I highly enjoyed this game. First, the concept is simple, you assemble units (later spells) to auto-battle waves of minions. But how you assemble the units is by making factory lines between different shapes. That later gets more complex when you can cut a shape in half or find a half-node to create more special units. Oh, special units are not enough? Well, how about combine shapes into parts to then assemble with the special units? You cannot always assemble the same units every game as well. Each map you can build on has different shape nodes and even ink pools. You can expand the map and get a preview of the new nodes, but there is no promise you will get what you need. I've gone few games without "Black Ink" so that stopped me from making certain units and 1 spell. The strategy part is impacted by the time limit. Each stage you have under 3 minutes to plan and build your factory. Then change and build things during the next round. You can pause to think, but they also enabled a "free style" mode where you can build while paused, so time limit is no longer a worry. Takes some stress off you if you just want to chill. You WILL need that on higher difficulties. Multiple times I have deleted my whole factory to rebuild. Note, if you unlock cost reductions during the run, the item(s) sell for the reduced amount and not the original build cost. I did not give this game much credit when I bought it. I was thinking I would get 10 maybe 20 hours out of it. Just something new to try. I have 50 at the time of the review, still haven't gotten to max rank on both characters, and new content is coming. *Updated review* So, after 90+ hours do I still recommend it? Yes. Not much of an update? Fine. First, the game is still being updated and bug fixes put out. Sometimes the fix breaks something else but the devs are keeping us in the loop with updates. A little hard with the language barriers but occasionally they will be in the forums as well using machine translation (even lets us know when they do, in case something is misspoken.) Second, they added content since EA, where I put a lot of my original time, not much additional content but it works. Aside from the difficulty level increases after each run, goes up to I believe ascension 9 now and each run has Endless, there is an even more difficult mode "EX Stage" which you have to perform 3 tasks (collection, boon/curse choice, empowered boss) and win the current run. EX stage at a low ascension number is quite hard but worth the unlocks even at lowest difficultly. There are also statues now, which are limited and hard to move later. They produce false unit materials that you can add to a joiner for a higher tier special unit. Ex: "Unit" statue + Square shape = Shieldbearer unit. I typically use one statue per 2 default joiners but that can also change wildly based on what you want to build. So, even more strategy now because of placement limits. All that being said, and thank you for reading as I do not know why you would, would I recommend it for gamers? I already answered yes. You can play it in a relaxed, low difficulty mode to chill out, or you can test your mind in build paths and optimizations. I'm gonna be playing it off and on till I clear the highest difficulty EX with both characters, so that may be quite a while.
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Sept. 2025
Great game got even better with 1.0. Highly recommend. At the start of a run you can choose to select Free Build mode to be able to build while paused for a casual experience or play without for a high intensity rush to build on the clock. Both modes are fun in their own way.
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July 2025
Pretty good game by itself, and devs are working to make it even better. Sadly, there wasn't a lot of success with the latter I like this idea of roguelite factorio. Shorter runs with limited space make playing much less time consuming, while RNG adds a decent replay walue. However, game has glaring issues I was willing to overlook on launch. Now, after almost a year in EA? Not so much. [*]Bad QoL - no saved blueprints. No selection, copy and paste. Even moving a building is impossible - you need to sell and build again. [*]Stacking modifiers are cool, but they make it difficult to tell how much of what each device is consuming. This leads to constant bottlenecks that are hard to pinpoint without trial and error. [*]Horrible balance - many techs are useless, many units/spells are too weak or inefficient to produce. These all clutter reward pools, creating a lot of excessive randomness. [*]Poor (machine?) translation - some important stuff is formulated in ways that are ambiguous at best and outright unintelligible at worst. I'll keep review positive for now, since, as I said, game is pretty good as it is. But aforementioned problems are pretty annoying - if any of them aren't fixed by the time of release, it will be a huge disappointment.
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Feb. 2025
This is not a game for hardcore factory builder fans, this is a game for rogue-like fans who like factory builders but get tired of them once the scale gets too big.
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Nov. 2024
If you are into factory building and tower defense type games this will probably be right down your alley. It adopts the slay the spire formula with picking encounters which makes every run different and exciting. Loving the freeplay option that allows you to pause while building without stressing about the timer.
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Frequently Asked Questions

ShapeHero Factory is currently priced at 23.99€ on Steam.

ShapeHero Factory is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 23.99€ on Steam.

ShapeHero Factory received 544 positive votes out of a total of 614 achieving a rating of 8.30.
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ShapeHero Factory was developed and published by Asobism.Co. and Ltd.

ShapeHero Factory is playable and fully supported on Windows.

ShapeHero Factory is playable and fully supported on MacOS.

ShapeHero Factory is not playable on Linux.

ShapeHero Factory is a single-player game.

ShapeHero Factory does not currently offer any DLC.

ShapeHero Factory does not support mods via Steam Workshop.

ShapeHero Factory does not support Steam Remote Play.

ShapeHero Factory is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.

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ShapeHero Factory
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8.3
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Developer
Asobism.Co.,Ltd
Publisher
Asobism.Co.,Ltd
Release 17 Sep 2025
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