Two more German game studios are receiving federal funding. tobspr Games in Munich has been awarded €320,441 for shapez 2 - Puzzle DLC. LAB132, based in Heidelberg, has been awarded €273,090 for Bor.
Munich-based tobspr Games has received €320,441 in funding from the German Federal Government's Games Funding Programme. The funding is intended for shapez 2 – Puzzle DLC. The funding period runs from 1 November 2025 to 28 February 2027. This means that the popular automation game shapez 2, which is currently in the Early Access stage, will be expanded with a downloadable content pack in the future. Its predecessor was also expanded with a puzzle DLC.
CEO Tobias Springer writes about the plans for shapez 2 on Steam: "Right now, the team is 120% focused on the 1.0 release of shapez 2. We're making really good progress, so I'm hopeful we can give more updates on it soon-ish! The 1.0 update, especially with the new game mode, grew way more than we initially planned, which is why it also took much longer than expected. (...) After the 1.0 release, shapez 2 will move into a "Live-Ops" mode, where we will provide regular updates and also have some ideas for DLCs - the first one being a shapez 2 adaption of the puzzle DLC (this time with more built-in puzzles though - sorry again for that!). In parallel, we're also sketching out some ideas for a potential future project, another factory game, which will be less abstract than shapez 2 and a bit more ambitious. So there will be 2 teams in the company - one working on shapez 2, and one prototyping this new project."
LAB132 has also gained funding. The Heidelberg-based company, which operates remotely, has received €273,090 for Bor. The funding period runs from 1 November 2025 to 28 February 2027. The studio released orbit.industries in 2022 and Astral Tracks in 2024. LAB132 also offers co-development and porting services.
