

There are numerous game portals ( iogames.space, Armorgames, Kongregate in earlier times, Miniclip, Crazygames) who will list the game, and if you have a track record with them, it’s even easier.
#Factorio current version free#
The great thing with this is that you get a lot of free traffic when you have your game running on the web. Intriguingly, it was as a free web game, back in May 2020 - Tobias explains: “From my previous games like Yorg.io, I had a lot of experience with releasing games on the web. If you’d like to understand the game better, I recommend watching this Brothgar (sponsored) YouTube playthrough:īut let’s concentrate on the story of how this game got started. So yes, Shapez.io is Factorio-inspired, but with much more of an abstract and simplified graphical style, with replay hooks galore.

The title is described on its Steam page as “a game about building factories to automate the creation and processing of increasingly complex shapes across an infinitely expanding map.” As Tobias tells us: “I really loved Factorio I found it too stressful… also, I wanted to make a game which is as approachable as possible, since I found Factorio hard to get into back then.” Which is why we were very excited when Shapez.io creator Tobias Springer approached us, offering to explain how his title’s success actually happened. As you probably know, we love transparent data sharing here at GameDiscoverCo.
