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Games like Shardpunk

If Shardpunk is your kind of game, the closest matches are Cyber Knights: Flashpoint, Spellpowder: Uprising and Crawl Tactics — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its dark, immersive and stressful. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.

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About Shardpunk: The war is lost, the Capitol lies in ruins, and you’re on the run! Shardpunk mixes turn-based tactical strategy with RPG, survival, and resource management as you gather your team, scavenge for resources, fight enemy hordes, and seek shelter to live another day.

2023StrategyIndieSimulationRPG13.99 USDDeck VerifiedWindowsby Clockwork Pile
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Steam players who put hours into Shardpunk also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.

  1. Cyber Knights: Flashpoint

    WHY THIS

    Shares a dark mood with Shardpunk.

    Top pick for Shardpunk fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Shardpunk.

    Cyberpunk mercenaries RPG! Turn-based squad tactics with unique heist-planning strategy. Build your crew wisely; their stories will become interwoven with your own. Pull off heists with powerful cyberware, faction connections, multiclassing, weapon modding, stealth, hacking, and more!

    2025ActionStrategyIndie29.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Spellpowder: Uprising

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Shardpunk fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with Shardpunk.

    Witness the Uprising - a rebellion seeking to overthrow the noble rule - in this strategy RPG set in a steampunk fantasy world. Create your character, form a party of trusted companions, and bring justice to a world torn by conflict through tactical turn-based battles.

    2025StrategyRPG14.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. Crawl Tactics

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Shardpunk fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Shardpunk.

    Crawl Tactics combines classic turn-based tactics with roguelike progression. In Dungeon Mode, face challenging, ever-changing encounters as you explore procedurally generated maps. In Quest Mode, develop your village, train your mercenaries, and defend against growing enemy invasions.

    2022StrategyIndieRPG19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. Ascenders: Beyond the Peak

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Shardpunk fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Shardpunk.

    ASCENDERS: BEYOND THE PEAK is a turn-based exploration roguelite where survival is vertical. Lead a team of alpinists to recover ancient artifacts from cursed peaks, prepare your expedition, evolve your climbers, master rope mechanics, and face H.P. Lovecraft-inspired horrors within the mountain.

    2026StrategyIndieRPGSteam ↗
  5. Mortal Glory 2

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Shardpunk fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Shardpunk.

    Manage a team of traveling gladiators in this turn-based fantasy roguelike. Find the best recruits, discover powerful item combinations and come up with clever tactics on the battlefield. The tournament awaits those who desire MORTAL GLORY!

    2024StrategyIndieSimulation11.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Tactics Ogre: Reborn

    WHY THIS

    Shares a dark mood with Shardpunk.

    Ranked #6 for Shardpunk fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation and RPG with Shardpunk.

    Tactics Ogre, crown jewel of the tactical role-playing genre, is reborn! Based on the 2010 release, the game features improved graphics and sound, as well as updated game design, bringing to life a new Tactics Ogre that remains true to its roots.

    2022SimulationRPG14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. Circus Electrique

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Shardpunk fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Shardpunk.

    Circus Electrique is part story-driven RPG, part tactics, part circus management, and completely enthralling– all with a steampunk twist. When everyday Londoners mysteriously turn into vicious killers, only the show’s talented performers possess the skills necessary to save the city.

    2022StrategyIndieRPG19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Wasteland 3

    WHY THIS

    Shares a dark mood with Shardpunk.

    Ranked #8 for Shardpunk fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with Shardpunk.

    Following the critically acclaimed 2014 Game of the Year winner Wasteland 2, the RPG series that pioneered the post-apocalyptic genre in video games returns with Wasteland 3.

    2020StrategyRPG39.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Reviewers mention these as similar to Shardpunk

Surfaced from review text: when other players write 'if you liked X, try Y', we catch the name and resolve it back to a Steam game.

  1. Slay the Spire

    WHY THIS

    Shares an immersive mood with Shardpunk.

    Reviewers of Shardpunk cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Shardpunk.

    We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!

    2019StrategyIndie6.24 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Darkest Dungeon®

    WHY THIS

    Shares a stressful mood with Shardpunk.

    Reviewers of Shardpunk cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Shardpunk.

    Darkest Dungeon is a challenging gothic roguelike turn-based RPG about the psychological stresses of adventuring. Recruit, train, and lead a team of flawed heroes against unimaginable horrors, stress, disease, and the ever-encroaching dark. Can you keep your heroes together when all hope is lost?

    2016StrategyIndieRPG24.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. The Bureau: XCOM Declassified

    WHY THIS

    Reviewers of Shardpunk cross-mention this title as a similar play.

    The year is 1962 and the Cold War has the nation gripped by fear.  A top-secret government unit called The Bureau begins investigating a series of mysterious attacks by an enemy more powerful than communism.

    2013Action19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. XCOM® 2

    WHY THIS

    Shares a tense mood with Shardpunk.

    Reviewers of Shardpunk cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Shardpunk.

    XCOM 2 is the sequel to XCOM: Enemy Unknown, the 2012 award-winning strategy game of the year. Earth has changed and is now under alien rule. Facing impossible odds you must rebuild XCOM, and ignite a global resistance to reclaim our world and save humanity.

    2016Strategy2.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Assassin's Creed® Syndicate

    WHY THIS

    Shares an immersive mood with Shardpunk.

    Reviewers of Shardpunk cross-mention this title as a similar play.

    London, 1868. Lead your underworld organization in the midst of the Industrial Revolution to break the corrupt stranglehold on the city in a visceral adventure filled with action, intrigue, and brutal combat.

    2015ActionAdventure29.99 USDSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Shardpunk at current Steam store prices.

  1. Garry's Mod

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~64% under Shardpunk on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Shardpunk.

    Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.

    2006IndieSimulationCasual4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Vampire Survivors

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~64% under Shardpunk on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with Shardpunk.

    Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!

    2022ActionIndieRPG4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. PEAK

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~43% under Shardpunk on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Shardpunk.

    PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?

    2025ActionIndieAdventure7.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. Sid Meier's Civilization® V

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~46% under Shardpunk on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Shardpunk.

    Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!

    2010Strategy7.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Slay the Spire

    WHY THIS

    Shares an immersive mood with Shardpunk.

    Priced ~55% under Shardpunk on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Shardpunk.

    We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!

    2019StrategyIndie6.24 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Inscryption

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~43% under Shardpunk on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Shardpunk.

    Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...

    2021StrategyIndieAdventure7.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Cookie Clicker

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~64% under Shardpunk on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Shardpunk.

    An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.

    2021StrategyIndieSimulation4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. WEBFISHING

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~64% under Shardpunk on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Shardpunk.

    WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)

    2024IndieMassively MultiplayerCasual4.99 USDSteam ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Shardpunk.

    Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  2. Magic Archery

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Shardpunk.

    Train a commoner to become the greatest archer in this short incremental game! Increase your stats, gather wealth from quests, buy upgrades, and infuse your arrows with magic.

    2024IndieSimulationRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. The Children of Clay

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Shardpunk.

    The Children of Clay is a short stop motion archeology horror game, where you have to study an ancient artefact and discover its dark secret.

    2025IndieAdventureSimulationFreeSteam ↗
  4. Moonring

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares RPG with Shardpunk.

    A dark-fantasy, turn-based, retro-fusion of classic turn-based RPGs and roguelikes, all presented with a unique neon aesthetic.

    2023RPGFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. If On A Winter's Night, Four Travelers

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

    If On A Winter's Night, Four Travelers is a narrative-driven point-and-click adventure with horror elements that explores the stories of four characters in a masked ball taking place aboard a train in the late 1920s.

    2021AdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Outpath: First Journey

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Shardpunk.

    Outpath: First Journey is a prologue chapter of the main game, Outpath. An experimental clicker base building game. Craft, gather & manage resources, build your base and buy more islands to exploit and expand!

    2022IndieAdventureCasualFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Die in the Dungeon: Origins

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Shardpunk.

    Fight your way through a mysterious dungeon in this deck-building, turn-based roguelike game where you don't use cards, but DICE! Deal with enemies by combining dice on your board, boost their effects with magical relics, and discover the story behind Die in the Dungeon!

    2023StrategyIndieRPGFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. The Riftbreaker: Prologue

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Shardpunk.

    The Riftbreaker: Prologue allows you to experience the events taking place before the story campaign of the main game. Explore an entirely new world. Gather resources. Build up a base. Defend yourself from thousands of alien creatures.

    2020ActionStrategyIndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Plays great on Steam Deck

Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.

  1. Cyber Knights: Flashpoint

    WHY THIS

    Shares a dark mood with Shardpunk.

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Shardpunk.

    Cyberpunk mercenaries RPG! Turn-based squad tactics with unique heist-planning strategy. Build your crew wisely; their stories will become interwoven with your own. Pull off heists with powerful cyberware, faction connections, multiclassing, weapon modding, stealth, hacking, and more!

    2025ActionStrategyIndie29.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Crawl Tactics

    WHY THIS

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Shardpunk.

    Crawl Tactics combines classic turn-based tactics with roguelike progression. In Dungeon Mode, face challenging, ever-changing encounters as you explore procedurally generated maps. In Quest Mode, develop your village, train your mercenaries, and defend against growing enemy invasions.

    2022StrategyIndieRPG19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Tactics Ogre: Reborn

    WHY THIS

    Shares a dark mood with Shardpunk.

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Simulation and RPG with Shardpunk.

    Tactics Ogre, crown jewel of the tactical role-playing genre, is reborn! Based on the 2010 release, the game features improved graphics and sound, as well as updated game design, bringing to life a new Tactics Ogre that remains true to its roots.

    2022SimulationRPG14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Shardpunk

Is Shardpunk verified for Steam Deck?
Yes — Shardpunk is Steam Deck Verified, meaning Valve has confirmed it runs well on the Deck with full controller, text legibility, and default configuration support.
How much does Shardpunk cost?
Shardpunk is listed on Steam at 13.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to Shardpunk?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Shardpunk are Cyber Knights: Flashpoint, Spellpowder: Uprising, Crawl Tactics.
Who developed Shardpunk?
Shardpunk was developed by Clockwork Pile and published by Retrovibe.

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