Games like Shard Cycle
If Shard Cycle is your kind of game, the closest matches are Sporbs, The Last Mothership and Planet No More — 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 incremental prospecting game. Destroy crystals, collect drill effects, attachment and ability items. Progress through more difficult layers and trade your collected experience for game-changing trading goods.
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Steam players who put hours into Shard Cycle 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.
Sporbs
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Top pick 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.
The Last Mothership
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Second-strongest match 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.
Planet No More
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Third-strongest match for Shard Cycle fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation and Casual with Shard Cycle.
An arcade-incremental game where you DESTROY planets! Build a fleet, upgrade weapons, max out your skill tree and destroy your target slowly. You'll advance deep into the galaxy, strategically shattering planets to their cores to unlock the next celestial.
Orb Breaker
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Ranked #4 for Shard Cycle fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Casual with Shard Cycle.
An incremental bullet hell about shooting orbs at enemies, collecting resources, and becoming powerful!
Drillbound
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Ranked #5 for Shard Cycle fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation and Casual with Shard Cycle.
Drillbound is a short incremental game about mining your way to the planet’s core. Crush layers of rock, gather resources, upgrade your drill, and unlock powerful machines as you descend into the depths.
A Moon Full of Money
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Ranked #6 for Shard Cycle fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Casual with Shard Cycle.
Blast rocks, upgrade your base, and earn lots of money in this compact incremental game. Expand and automate your operation with powerful abilities like mining robots, drones, mines, supply drops, an orbital laser, and more.
Artillery Miner
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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.
An incremental mining game, where you mine through massive blocks using guns, fire, lasers and nuclear missiles. Discover new ores, unlock new worlds and weapons as you progress through the upgrades tree and become the ultimate Artillery Miner!
Orebits
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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.
Bounce your pickaxe and smash through asteroids in this futuristic mining incremental! Explore a roguelite tech tree, discover gravitational anomalies, and deliver resources back to Earth. Upgrade and explore space to discover what secrets it holds!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Bongo Cat
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
- 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 Sporbs, The Last Mothership, Planet No More.
- 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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