Games like Shard Cycle
If Shard Cycle is your kind of game, the closest matches are The Last Mothership, Sporbs and Mergeopolis — 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.
Get personalized picks →About Shard Cycle: Shard Cycle is an incremental prospecting game about getting richer and stronger. Sweep your cursor through fields of thousands of crystals, spend your drops on upgrades, and unlock effects that shatter hundreds at once. Dig deeper for rarer, tougher crystals. Watch your numbers climb.
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The Last Mothership
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Top pick for Shard Cycle fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Casual with Shard Cycle.
A short incremental game about harvesting planets to feed your mothership. Mine, manage resources, grow your fleet, and unlock upgrades to evolve your species. You are the devourer of worlds.
CasualSteam ↗Sporbs
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Shard Cycle fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation and Casual with Shard Cycle.
A relaxing incremental game where you harvest resources from alien organisms. Upgrade your extraction technology, discover unique abilities, manage resources, automate a factory and unlock new areas to maximise your yield.
Mergeopolis
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Shard Cycle fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation and Casual with Shard Cycle.
Merge matching buildings to grow a tiny island into a thriving city. Plan residential, commercial, industrial, and civic districts, reinvest their income, unlock more land, and build at your own pace in this relaxing incremental city builder.
Drain the Galaxy
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Ranked #4 for Shard Cycle fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation and Casual with Shard Cycle.
Load the thousands of dwarves into the cargo hold of your starship and strip-mine entire planets. Swing the pickaxe, slice with a laser, blast with rockets, dig out ore and turn your haul into galactic credits.
Scratch the Ticket
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Shard Cycle fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Shard Cycle.
Scratch the Ticket is a first‑person incremental gambling sim where every ticket is a test of nerves. Print tickets, scratch cells, and decide: cash out now or risk it all. The outcome depends only on your choice.
Project: C.E.L.L.
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Shard Cycle fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Shard Cycle.
An arcade incremental where you run cellular simulations for a megacorp obsessed with immortality. Break glucose, build combos, and spend ATP across a massive skill tree. Experiment with different glucose types, proteins, and lipids from your retro terminal.
Harvesters
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Ranked #7 for Shard Cycle fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation and Casual with Shard Cycle.
A short incremental game about gathering resources on different planets. Upgrade the harvesters, unlock new buildings, and unlock new ways to gather resources! It's all about watching lil people do their thing.
Hole Is Mine
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Ranked #8 for Shard Cycle fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation and Casual with Shard Cycle.
Hole Is Mine is an incremental adventure about purifying a divine Hole. Dive inside and launch your Mini'Ohs to mine for you. Extract impurities, upgrade your power, and find hidden secrets to grow the Village, customizing your Mini'Ohs with incredible powers. The Hole has spoken!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Shard Cycle at current Steam store prices.
The Test
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Shard Cycle on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Shard Cycle.
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Blood and Bacon
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Priced ~80% under Shard Cycle on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Shard Cycle.
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.
Placid Plastic Duck Simulator
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Priced ~60% under Shard Cycle on Steam right now. Shares Simulation and Casual with Shard Cycle.
The ultimate high-tech rubber duck simulation, Placid Plastic Duck brings you dangerous levels of relaxation. With chill music, dreamy 3D graphics, and many different happy ducks, your only priority is to float around. Zero Ducks given.
Peggle Deluxe
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Shard Cycle on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Shard Cycle.
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
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Priced ~80% under Shard Cycle on Steam right now. Shares Simulation and Casual with Shard Cycle.
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!
The Test: Hypothesis Rising
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Priced ~60% under Shard Cycle on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Shard Cycle.
The second chapter in The Test trilogy. Answer a series of in-depth questions to reveal hidden truths about yourself and unlock secrets to discover how your life can change drastically with just a few, slight modifications. ...But are you sure you want the answers you seek?
The Test: Final Revelation
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Shard Cycle on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Shard Cycle.
The third chapter in The Test Trilogy. Answer a series of in-depth questions to reveal hidden truths about yourself and unlock secrets to discover who you really are as a person. The Final Revelation is upon us... but are you sure you TRULY want the answers you seek?
Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad
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Priced ~80% under Shard Cycle on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Shard Cycle.
"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!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Shard Cycle.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation and Casual with Shard Cycle.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
NGU IDLE
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Shard Cycle.
NGU Idle is a Free To Play Idle game that's full of weird humor, tons of upgrades and hundreds of hours of content! Try out NGU Idle today and experience the joy of Numbers Going Up!
Virtual Cottage
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation and Casual with Shard Cycle.
Virtual Cottage gives you a comfy place to rest and be productive without any distractions. Open the game, set yourself a goal and enjoy the atmosphere.
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Shard Cycle.
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.
Coloring Pixels
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Casual with Shard Cycle.
A relaxing coloring by numbers game. Enjoy completing a variety of images with differing themes, complexity, and sizes.
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!
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Frequently asked about Shard Cycle
- How much does Shard Cycle cost?
- Shard Cycle is listed on Steam at 4.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Shard Cycle?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Shard Cycle are The Last Mothership, Sporbs, Mergeopolis.
- Who developed Shard Cycle?
- Shard Cycle was developed by Narog Games.
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 Shard Cycle.
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