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  • Publisher

    Judd Madden
    Melbourne, Australia

  • Genre

    Strategy board game

  • Platform

    Web browser, desktop & mobile

  • Price

    Free

  • Players

    1v1 Online
    Solo v Computer
    Pen & Paper

  • Play Link

    Online Play

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Pitch

Shapeships is a strategy board game where shared dice become lines, lines become ships, and ships grow into strange, powerful fleets.

Description

Shapeships is a simultaneous-turn strategy game about building a fleet and reacting to your opponent.

Each turn, a shared dice roll gives both players lines. Lines make ships. Ships have powers. Fleets stay on the board, so every turn compounds: damage engines, healing walls, greedy economy, control pieces, upgrades, counters, and sudden lethal turns.

Shapeships isn’t about movement or targeting. Ships don't move, don't have health, and (mostly) don't interact with each other directly. When you build a ship, its power becomes a permanent part of your fleet. The game is won by building the fleet that outpaces, outlasts, or breaks your opponent’s.

Free online play in your web browser, on desktop & mobile.

Free online play in your web browser, on desktop & mobile

Features
  • Simultaneous-turn strategy with quick build reveals.
  • Shared dice economy: both players get the same roll, then use it differently.
  • Over 60 unique ships across the wider ruleset.
  • Permanent ship powers that compound every turn.
  • Four species with distinct visual identities and strategic personalities.
  • Aggro, control, tempo, economy, swarm, upgrade, and late-game strategies.
  • Visible fleets make opponent-reading central to the game.
  • Dice rolls create timing windows, early threats, and comeback chances.
  • Fast rematches encourage matchup testing and counterplay.
Shapeships is good for audiences who like:
  • Strategy board games
  • Digital board games
  • Browser games
  • Pen-and-paper game design
  • Asymmetric factions
  • Build orders and matchup theory
  • Simple rules that produce complicated decisions
  • Balance arguments
  • Games with aggro, control, tempo, economy, and late-game plans
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