Shape Shifter: Formations
Release date: May 27, 2025
Developers: Castec Studios
Publishers: Castec Studios
Genres: Action, RPG
Categories: Single-player, Multi-player, Co-op, Shared/Split Screen Co-op, Shared/Split Screen, Steam Achievements, Full controller support, Steam Cloud, Remote Play Together, Family Sharing
Supported languages: English

Shape Shifter: Formations is an action twin-stick shooter with rogue-lite elements, where you must destroy hordes of geometric enemies alone or with a friend. Select your ship and combine a large variety of weapons, abilities and infinitely stacking upgrades to craft your own unique build. Customize Your Loadout Choose from a wide variety of ships each with their own unique active and passive abilities, ranging from shocking tesla towers and a burning laser, to clones that mirror your attacks or the ability to slow time around you. Pick the ship the suits your play style and outfit it with a weapon of your choice. Every ship and weapon has it's own unique skill tree, allowing you to alter and improve the way they play via changing abilities/passives and gaining new ones. Shift Shapes Survive against swarms of enemies before fighting challenging bullet-hell bosses each with their own unique attacks and abilities. Customize your own difficulty with many modifiers from electrifying the walls, to giving enemies elemental infusions. Higher difficulties can unlock prime boss variants for an even greater challenge and further rewards. Limitless Upgrade Combinations Gain experience by killing enemies to improve your ship with infinitely stacking upgrades that allow you to tailor your build as you play. Inflict a barrage of status effects on your enemies, or summon a swarm of constructs with their own weaponry. Extensive meta-progression between runs allows you to gain permanent upgrades, new game mechanics, and tons of new ships, weapons, and upgrades for future runs. Features Play solo or in 2 player local co-op. 20 Ships and 20 Weapons to choose from each with their own abilities and playstyle. Unique skill trees for every ship and weapon to customize their playstyle to your liking. 200+ infinitely stacking upgrades to craft your build each run. Expansive skill tree and meta-progression that provides permanent upgrades and new mechanics for every run. Granular difficulty system to modify many aspects of the run. Unlock new upgrades, weapons and ships by completing challenges. Manual twin-stick gameplay. (With an optional auto-aim mode for those that prefer.) Short 30 minute runs, with an optional endless mode.