Games like Shards Online
If Shards Online is your kind of game, the closest matches are Iron & Incense, Off The Grid and ROB RUN — picked from the ranked list below. 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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Iron & Incense
WHY THIS
Top pick for Shards Online fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Shards Online.
IRON & INCENSE is a PvPvE urban occult extraction shooter where modern tactical gear collides with bizarre occult sorcery. You are deployed into 'Shibuya', sealed off by supernatural phenomena. Discern friend from foe among human-mimicking terrors. Secure the cursed relics and escape.
Off The Grid
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Shards Online fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Shards Online.
Welcome to Off The Grid, the next-gen free to play Battle Royale from visionary director Neill Blomkamp. Set in a near-future world where contestants are cybernetically augmented and dropped into televised bloodsport. Death is temporary, but fame is forever.
ROB RUN
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Shards Online fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Shards Online.
ROB RUN is a brutal crime sandbox featuring thousands of players. Rise above everyone through the grit, the grime, and the struggle. Break free and take yourself from squalor by any means.
Forbidden zone
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Shards Online fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Shards Online.
Immerse yourself in the dangerous and thrilling world of the Forbidden Zone, a vast open world multiplayer survival game where your main objective is to outwit, outplay and outlast. Falls before Autumn 2023.
Hidengen
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Shards Online fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Shards Online.
Hidengen is an atmospheric PvP shooter featuring stealth and vertical combat. Only one will survive. Victory requires not just strength, but cunning. Use your jetpack, shadows, height, and weather conditions to your advantage.
怪谈
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Shards Online fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Shards Online.
Ghost Stories is a Lovecraftian co-op adventure. As investigators on a mysterious island, uncover secrets and buried treasure while surviving escalating danger, shifting weather, random events, and deadly monsters.
Finding Home
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Shards Online fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Shards Online.
A zombie shooter where you can build your base and craft items to help you survive.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Shards Online at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Shards Online on Steam right now. Shares Action with Shards Online.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
Blood and Bacon
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Shards Online on Steam right now. Shares Action and Casual with Shards Online.
This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.
Peggle Deluxe
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Shards Online on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Shards Online.
Take your best shot with energizing arcade fun! Aim, shoot, clear the orange pegs, then sit back and cheer as 10 whimsical teachers guide you to Peggle greatness.
shapez
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Shards Online on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Shards Online.
shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!
Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Shards Online on Steam right now. Shares Action with Shards Online.
"Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad?" is a fast paced shower-simulation where you shower with your 8-bit dad.It's good, clean fun!
Insaniquarium Deluxe
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Shards Online on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Shards Online.
The craziest aquarium game ever! Tend to your fish, keep them happy and they'll reward you with coins and jewels. Buy tank upgrades or egg parts which hatch different in-tank pets. These pets can help you feed your fish, collect coins, or even protect against the aliens that will invade your tank.
Bejeweled® 3
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Shards Online on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Shards Online.
The biggest, brightest Bejeweled ever! Discover all-new ways to play the world’s #1 puzzle game. Find your perfect match with 8 breathtaking game modes that meet all your moods.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Shards Online.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Shards Online.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
STRAFTAT
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Shards Online.
STRAFTAT is a 1v1/2v2 ONLINE first person SHOOTER with quick rounds in over 350 MAPS ; Including all WEAPONS, proximity chat and 4 players FFA.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Shards Online.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive (CS:GO) expands upon the team-based action gameplay that it pioneered when it was launched over 2 decades ago. CS:GO features new maps, characters, weapons, and game modes, and delivers updated versions of the classic CS content (de_dust2, etc.).
The Lab
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!
DORONKO WANKO
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Casual with Shards Online.
『DORONKO WANKO』 is a DORONKO Action Game. In this game, You can become a cute, innocent Pomeranian, make your master's home messy and dirty. "Will the master be angry with me?" Don't worry. Because you are a sweet doggie.
Landfall Archives
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Shards Online.
Break into the Landfall Archives to steal and play previously unreleased games, demos, interactive slide shows, and even an unreleased version of Totally Accurate Battle Simulator from 2017!
SuchArt: Creative Space
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Shards Online.
Paint on any surfaces with numerous tools in Creative Space — a free sandbox version of SuchArt: Genius Artist Simulator. Create masterpieces, complete commissions, and decorate your studio in the most advanced artist sim!
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Frequently asked about Shards Online
- How much does Shards Online cost?
- Shards Online is listed on Steam at 1.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Shards Online have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Shards Online supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Cross-Platform Multiplayer, Online PvP).
- What games are most similar to Shards Online?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Shards Online are Iron & Incense, Off The Grid, ROB RUN.
- Who developed Shards Online?
- Shards Online was developed by DarkJoltGames.
imho.run ranks Steam game alternatives using a mix of collaborative filtering (ALS / iALS / EASE / LightGCN), content scoring over genres, categories, Steam tags, developers, and publishers, plus AI-extracted vibes mined from review text. The page above is generated in seed mode anchored on Shards Online.
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