I have both and found Shapez boring because of how claustrophobic the map is and how limited the resource types are. You can't build at the scale of Factorio be

I have both and found Shapez boring because of how claustrophobic the map is and how limited the resource types are. You can't build at the scale of Factorio because the game starts to lag (the downside of making a game in Electron perhaps). Once you've unlocked all the equipment types the rest of the game is just a loop of find some place on the map that has all the elements you need -> set up extractors + choppers + painters + combiners + stackers -> make belts to ship the product back. With Factorio you have options for transport (belts, trains, bots) each with their own setup and maintenance challenges, and you have incentive to centralize production of an intermediate and then figure out how to distribute it to many other places which need it. With shapez you just set up new factories from scratch every time because there's only a handful of resources and they're all available everywhere in close proximity to each other. Also the circuit stuff in Shapez is completely unnecessary unless you go for the goal of building an all-in-one (a single factory setup which can rearchitect itself to build any kind of shape you tell it to). In Factorio you use circuit stuff all the time even for basic tasks, like balancing belts or prioritizing resources to different parts of the factory or turning off parts of the factory to save power or... I finished Shapez and then had no reason to pick it back up because there's basically only one way to finish the game. With Factorio I not only had variations in the base game I could explore (train bases vs bot bases vs spaghetti belt bases, electric furnaces vs staying with steel furnaces forever, not bothering with solar and nuclear and just staying with steam power forever, etc), I also have mods. With Shapez I have... a DLC that adds puzzles. But yes, every pro of Factorio and con of Shapez that I listed could be the opposite for someone else. So if you like the low complexity of Shapez then you may not like Factorio.