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Shafted

Shafted is a quick resource management game. Build your mini mining colony. Optimize your mineral outputs. Strategically position your buildings with turn based tactics. Pay off your contracts or else you'll…

13 October 2022

Shafted is a puzzle developed by Looch Lab, released 13 October 2022 on Linux and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What Shafted is

Shafted is a puzzle game developed by Looch Lab and released in 2022. It is available on Linux and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unreal Engine 5.

The premise, in the publisher's words

SHAFTED is a micro-mining simulator with an emphasis on letting you quickly build out your colony. Single rounds are fast and short. The alien clients swoop in to extract contract payments. Clear out those clients and call it a day.
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How it plays

Its themes are business and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

What it launched against

Shafted launched on 13 October 2022, within three weeks of A Plague Tale: Requiem, Scorn, Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord and Bayonetta 3.

Released around the same time: A Plague Tale: Requiem, Scorn, Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord, Bayonetta 3.

Official trailer

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When did Shafted come out?
Shafted was released on 13 October 2022 for Linux and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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