Leave a Review Shapez
great game, weak port
shapez is a fantastic game, but this port leaves a lot to be desired.
my save apparently got corrupted after idk how many hours in. at a certain point the game would chew through my battery at like 2% per minute. the interface is buggy — you can click on pinned shapes and map pins even if they aren’t displayed, sometimes you’ll place things and they don’t actually get placed even though it looks like they do, copy/paste is a bear (scrolling/navigating in general) and once in a while a paste will bug out and you won’t be able to paste without restarting the game. restarting the game takes about five minutes, especially once your factory gets bigger. sometimes splitters don’t connect to tunnels; sometimes they do, but only one tunnel at a time. about 50% of the time when you switch apps, the game will need to reload, which is a huge hassle if you’re trying to copy a balancer.
that said, it’s hard to find good games on the app store, especially in this genre. it’s not so bad that i won’t start a new save, but it feels like the port was not tested enough. it’s still a good time sink, but the long loading time makes it impossible to just pick up and throw down some conveyors in between life.
i don’t necessarily regret the $5 purchase, but i probably wouldn’t spend it knowing what i know now.
iphone 12, latest ios.Show lessnikooooooooooooooooo123
Developer Response
Hi, thank you for your feedback, this is very helpful to us. A new update is now available, which should resolve many of these problems. Don't hesitate to give us your feedback via the in-game chat!Fun
I’ve been playing this game since the free demo when my computer broke I was devastated that all my progress was lost when I found out there was a mobile version I was extremely excited to play shapez again. After a while I beat the first few levels and then the game was over. I was disappointed that unlike the demo after you finished the upgrades to the hub the game ended and locked you out of your save file. As I know the game and love it it was an easy purchase but new players such as myself to the mobile version will probably delete it. It would be great if you (the developers) could allow the factory to continue the factory without any further upgrades allowing the player to explore the game further while keeping the player behind a pay wall and further inclining the player to pay for the upgradeShow lessOliver the shape consumer
Developer Response
Thank you for your review and feedback, it will be pass on to the team!Five star game done in by broken save/continue bug
The touch controls are awesome once you get used to them. The design of the original game is awesome. Despite game-breaking save/continue bug, I have played significant hours enjoying this game… up to the point that I feel I am kidding myself that “This run it will be different.” Then I load up to continue my progress and all my progress is gone! Will gladly update to a 5-star review when this game-breaking bug is fixed.
I have tried to overcome the autosave/continue bug by painstakingly manually naming a game file, being sure to explicitly exit to the main menu, then immediately reloading the named save to ensure it is there before leaving a lengthy session only to return the next day to load the named game to find all my progress is gone. I give up. Will keep an eye out for an update but am done for now. 😥Show lessJim+Timlynn
Developer Response
Hi, I'm very sorry to hear that. Could you reach out through the chat in-game with as many details as possible so we could look into it further ? Thank you!Great concept with too many game breaking bugs
Love the game at its core, but I cannot look past the horrible bugs. My first world (lvl14) got corrupted so I had to start all over, probably due to the game shutting down in the background with a proper save.
Every time you copy paste factories that have tight conveyors, they always get mixed up on which way to go or even if they should be pasted at all. This is fine, just means I have to do more work.
Now I’m on lvl 18 and it’s asking for a 3 layer object. I stack the first two layers without any issue, but when I go to stack the next layer on top, it puts it on the bottom. I thought I made a mistake and switched up the conveyors. Same shape. So, apparently for this, it doesn’t matter what orientation or inputs I use, I cannot get the mission item.
Restarting the app did not fix this.
Honestly, if you love factory games, you’ll like this one, but you’ll get mad when it decides to break down on you.Show lessBlackleg eastward
Developer Response
Thank you for your review and feedback! These issues have already been reported several times, and we're working on it. In the meantime, some players on level 18 managed to get round the bug by building the shape half by half, then assembling it: first the bottom part, then the top part with the horns. Our apologies for the inconvenience, we’ll keep you posted as soon as we can.Great game if you know what to do
Love this game, known it for a long time and was thrilled that they came out with a mobile version. Was so confused on the later levels and realized that most people may need a tutorial to get past level 16-21, and the game also has plenty of bugs, the most annoying of which is— the game won’t save. My auto save interval is 1 min, saves every ten. If I try to exit to the title screen 50 percent of the time it won’t save OR go to the title screen, and I have to lose 10 minutes of progress (friggin autosave) because I have to force-quit the app. Would give five stars if there weren’t really annoying bugs.Show lessDark_Ninja741
Developer Response
Hi, thank you for your feedback! We're aware of this issue and we're working on it, I'm very sorry for the inconvenience. Thank you for your patience and support!Too many bugs at higher levels
Glitches become worse the more factories you build and game becomes unplayable. Most have already been reported, so I’m not going to bother repeating.
At level 16, I tried to cut and paste a factory, the belts didn’t paste, and everything glitched. Now my saved file won’t open. Guess I’m starting over.
On an iPhone 15 Pro.Show lessnicknametaken2
Great Game - But glitching
Love the game and want to play it as much as possible. But what's keeping this a 5 star review is that the game keeps glitching out on me around Level 14. I'll have pieces I try to delete that are visually still on scree. Seems to happen most with the color extraction. Eventually a glitch will happen that corrupts that save game and I can't get back in if I close out. Not sure if it's the iPhone 12 or iOS 17? But it's frustrating having to restart at the very beginning every time.Show lessABloomquist
Developer Response
Hi, we're really sorry to hear that you have been experiencing this issue. We're aware of this and we're working on it. Please don't hesitate to reach out through the in-game chat with as many details as possible and we'll do our very best to help!Save issues knocked you down 2 stars
Spent 3 hours playing last night and woke up to the game progress not registering anything I did and the save state being from 2 days ago… I otherwise love the game (other than a sorter not being available for so long 😒) but I don’t want to do all that again, and I think I’ll just lay off it for nowShow lessTiredtreyofthisbull
Developer Response
Hi, we're really sorry to hear that you have been experiencing this issue. Please don't hesitate to reach out through the in-game chat with as many details as possible about your device and the issue so we can investigate it further!Game stopped loading on my ipad
The minute I saw this game was on the app store, I jumped on it because I was addicted to the desktop version. There were some glitches (like the sorters changing size or the game not recognizing I switched to a new tool) but not enough to make the game inoperable. But I made it to level 13 and turned the game off for a little bit. I came back and I can’t re-enter my save, the loading circle just spins endlessly :(Show lessheehawman42
Developer Response
Hi, we're sorry to hear that! This issue has already been reported several times, and we're working on it to understand the problem and solve it as soon as possible. Thank you for your patience and support!Amazing game, small bug
Amazing game, you can lose yourself for hours coming up with new designs.
I noticed when I build a compact blueprint and copy it, the conveyor belt connection will often shift to something different than the original connection. Not sure if anyone else noticed but kind of annoying.Meteoriteguy
Developer Response
Thank you for your review! We're aware of this issue, and we're working on it. Thank you for your patience and support!
