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WorldShaper Idle

Relax and build your own world! Discover new tiles by experimenting with tile placement. Use their bonuses to optimize your production, or just sit back and become ever more powerful! What will your worlds look like?

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May 18, 2026
76 days ago
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Positive23 reviews95.7%

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About the Game

A unique idle game where you build your own world. Experiment with placing basic tiles, like forests, villlages, mushroom forests and more, in specific patterns to discover new tile types. Optimize your world to maximize your production, or just sit back and keep growing more and more powerful.

This Game Features

  • Relaxing idle gameplay

  • A unique grid based optimization puzzle

  • Hundreds of tiles to discover

  • Experiment with over 100 bonuses

  • Multiple races to discover and play: play as humans and elves!

  • Great music by Stijn Cappetijn

Gameplay

There are some basic tiles you can place, such as villages, forests and mystical flowers. You'll unlock more over time! By placing those basic tiles in specific patterns, you can discover more advanced tiles. For example, place two rocks around a village to make a mining village, or place four mining villages around a village to make a industrial city!

Each of these tiles has a base production and often some bonuses. For example, a mining village produces more if there are more rocks adjacent to it, and a industrial city produces more if there are more mining villages within its range.

WorldShaper Idle is an idle game. You'll keep producing resources even if the game is closed. The game will unfold and become more complex as you progress, and more basic tiles are introduced throughout the game. You can make a simple build and just gather resources, but there are also plenty of opportunities for puzzling and number crunching if you want.