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Games like SkyShard: City Battler

If SkyShard: City Battler is your kind of game, the closest matches are Packed Lair, Exark and Ascend and Fall — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its competitive, immersive and relaxing. 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 SkyShard: City Battler: City Building Auto Battler! Build your kingdom with powerful weapons, walls, houses, and endless synergies, then battle other players in asynchronous multiplayer, or overcome various solo challenges.

2026StrategyIndieEarly Access11.99 USDWindowsby ItsBen321
SkyShard: City Battler — Steam game cover
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Asynchronous multiplayer for non toxic competitionConstant updates with new units and contentDeep synergy system between buildings and unitsCompetitiveImmersiveRelaxing

Players who liked SkyShard: City Battler also play

Steam players who put hours into SkyShard: City Battler 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. Packed Lair

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for SkyShard: City Battler fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with SkyShard: City Battler.

    You are an evil lord with a hero problem and not nearly enough floor space. Draft buildings, pack them into your cramped lair, toil to earn money to expand, create powerful monster synergies, and send your chaotic army of minions to repel wave after wave of heroic do-gooder pests.

    2026StrategySteam ↗
  2. Exark

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for SkyShard: City Battler fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with SkyShard: City Battler.

    Exark is a run-based engine builder where you command a gigantic ark-ship. Construct buildings, hire crew with unique skills, and exploit powerful synergies to survive your voyage to the rim of the world.

    2026StrategyIndieSteam ↗
  3. Ascend and Fall

    WHY THIS

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

    Choose your hero, draft spells, and survive shifting phases of PvE and PvP combat in this free-to-play autobattler where spell order decides everything.

    2027StrategyIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  4. Gridbound Tactics

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for SkyShard: City Battler fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with SkyShard: City Battler.

    Gridbound Tactics is an async PvP auto-battler where positioning decides who becomes your carry, tank, or support. Draft units, match adjacent traits, and test your board against rival player-built armies.

    StrategyIndieSteam ↗
  5. Down with the Ship

    WHY THIS

    Shares auto battler, replayability and a competitive mood with SkyShard: City Battler.

    Ranked #5 for SkyShard: City Battler fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with SkyShard: City Battler.

    Strategic auto battler where you design a heavily-armed spaceship. Draft 200+ items, outfit your hull, and unleash it in async PvP. Blend captains and factions for absurd combos and galactic domination. Roll, buy, place, pray.

    2026StrategyIndieEarly Access13.49 USDSteam ↗
  6. Bermuda Bastion

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for SkyShard: City Battler fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with SkyShard: City Battler.

    Survive 33 days in the heart of the Bermuda Triangle! Build triangular structures to defend against malevolent squares, pentagons, and other geometric monsters. In this chaotic city-builder roguelike, every mistake pulls your Bastion closer to the depths.

    2026StrategySteam ↗
  7. Tower Arena Survive

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for SkyShard: City Battler fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with SkyShard: City Battler.

    Tower Arena Survive (TAS) is a dynamic mix of roguelike and tower defense, where your castle becomes an impregnable fortress. Use 80+ weapons and 88 upgrades to balance income, damage, and defense against up to 7 foes. Buy monsters to disrupt enemy waves and change the tide of battle!

    2025StrategyIndie4.99 USDSteam ↗
  8. Dream Fortress

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for SkyShard: City Battler fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with SkyShard: City Battler.

    A survival roguelike where you kill hordes of aliens while gathering resources, crafting gear, and building fortresses on an ever-changing planet. After asserting dominance, recruit your team of aliens to devastate other players in a strategic autobattler.

    ActionStrategyIndieSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below SkyShard: City Battler at current Steam store prices.

  1. Garry's Mod

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~58% under SkyShard: City Battler on Steam right now. Shares Indie with SkyShard: City Battler.

    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 ~58% under SkyShard: City Battler on Steam right now. Shares Indie with SkyShard: City Battler.

    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. R.E.P.O.

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~42% under SkyShard: City Battler on Steam right now. Shares Early Access with SkyShard: City Battler.

    An online co-op horror game with up to 6 players. Locate valuable, fully physics-based objects and handle them with care as you retrieve and extract to satisfy your creator's desires.

    2025ActionEarly Access6.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Slay the Spire

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~48% under SkyShard: City Battler on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with SkyShard: City Battler.

    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 ↗
  5. Cookie Clicker

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~58% under SkyShard: City Battler on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with SkyShard: City Battler.

    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 ↗
  6. WEBFISHING

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~58% under SkyShard: City Battler on Steam right now. Shares Indie with SkyShard: City Battler.

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

    2024IndieMassively MultiplayerCasual4.99 USDSteam ↗
  7. POSTAL 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~92% under SkyShard: City Battler on Steam right now. Shares Indie with SkyShard: City Battler.

    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?

    2012ActionIndieAdventure0.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~58% under SkyShard: City Battler on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with SkyShard: City Battler.

    Zombies are invading your home, and the only defense is your arsenal of plants! Armed with an alien nursery-worth of zombie-zapping plants like peashooters and cherry bombs, you'll need to think fast and plant faster to stop dozens of types of zombies dead in their tracks.

    2009Strategy4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Free alternatives

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

  1. 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 SkyShard: City Battler.

    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 ↗
  2. Mizi NO!

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with SkyShard: City Battler.

    In this free 2D puzzle game, you must reassemble broken objects that your cat has knocked over.

    2024IndieCasualFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Shape of Dreams: Prologue

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with SkyShard: City Battler.

    《Shape of Dreams: Prologue》is a unique game that blends action roguelite with MOBA-style gameplay. Edit your character's Memories to create your own champion. Face all challenges alone or play with friends in up to 4-player co-op.

    2024ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Muck

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with SkyShard: City Battler.

    Muck is a survival-roguelike. Collect resources, find items & build a base to survive for as long as you can.

    2021ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Limbus Company

    WHY THIS

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

    As the Executive Manager of Limbus Company, lead your group of twelve Sinners, venture into the buried facilities of Lobotomy Corporation, and lay claim on the Golden Boughs.

    2023FreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Dota Underlords

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with SkyShard: City Battler.

    Hire a crew and destroy your rivals in this new strategy battler set in the world of Dota. Introducing Season One: Explore White Spire and earn rewards on the Battle Pass. Pick from several different game modes, play on your own or with friends, and take advantage of crossplay on PC and mobile.

    2019StrategyFree To PlayCasualFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. Super Auto Pets

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with SkyShard: City Battler.

    Build the strongest team of pets and tussle with your friends!

    2021StrategyFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Minion Masters

    WHY THIS

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

    An addictive fast-paced hybrid of Card games & Tower-Defense. Play 1v1 - or bring a friend for 2v2 - and engage in epic online multiplayer battles full of innovative strategy and awesome plays! Collect 200+ cards with unique mechanics, all free!

    2019ActionStrategyIndieFreeSteam ↗

Frequently asked about SkyShard: City Battler

How much does SkyShard: City Battler cost?
SkyShard: City Battler is listed on Steam at 11.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
Does SkyShard: City Battler have multiplayer or co-op?
Yes — SkyShard: City Battler supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online PvP, PvP).
What games are most similar to SkyShard: City Battler?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside SkyShard: City Battler are Packed Lair, Exark, Ascend and Fall.
Who developed SkyShard: City Battler?
SkyShard: City Battler was developed by ItsBen321 and published by RegisKillbin.

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