Games like Shardkeep
If Shardkeep is your kind of game, the closest matches are Leaf Us Alone, Cyberdeck Shuffle and Glazed Mirror : Myriad Cards — 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 Shardkeep: Match gems to battle through a run-based roguelike. Skulls strike, shields guard, mana fuels a drafted spellbook — and matching four keeps the turn yours. Fight three acts of a fortress that freezes, clogs and hexes your board, then climb ten Ascension levels. Every fight is pure decisions.
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Leaf Us Alone
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Top pick for Shardkeep fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Shardkeep.
Build a powerful army with synergistic abilities, and prove your strategic mastery in this unique deckbuilding roguelite. Command your forces in battle, triggering outrageous combo to defeat the invading Voidlings threatening to consume the world.
Cyberdeck Shuffle
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Second-strongest match for Shardkeep fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Shardkeep.
Hack the system in this deckbuilder meets strategic shape-matching puzzle game. Swap bits to match codes, play cards to annihilate the grid and place synergistic modifiers, and chain combos to break through cyber defences and infiltrate the corporate network.
Glazed Mirror : Myriad Cards
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Shardkeep fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Shardkeep.
Randomly deal the cards, with the Role cards determining the card pool. Based on the technique cards in hand, play them in sequence to trigger their effects. Alter cards alter the initial deal, and the Phantasm challenge the depth limit.
Match! The 12 CZ Wars
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Ranked #4 for Shardkeep fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Shardkeep.
"Match! The 12 CZ Wars" is a roguelike strategy game blending match-3 and buff-building. Partner with 12 Zodiac Maidens to repel ancient primordial beasts. Navigate random events, battles, and upgrades. Carefully choose paths, manage resources, and empower your Maidens to secure victory.
Mind Match
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Ranked #5 for Shardkeep fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Shardkeep.
Not your usual Match-3. Trapped in your own imagination, match ideas to fuel abilities that upgrade every fight. Beware, Dark Ideas cloud your board and force you to rethink. Place relics that twist the rules. Face Monsters that fight back, and climb a tower built from your own creative blocks.
Vaethorn: Realm of Legends
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Ranked #6 for Shardkeep fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Shardkeep.
A tactical roguelite card game set within the pages of an ancient, living storybook, where every card is a fate. Choose your Lord, cross the realms of Vaethorn, and write your own legend.
Legends of Gems
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Ranked #7 for Shardkeep fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Shardkeep.
400+ gems, 40+ combos & relics offer endless builds! Collect elemental gems, fuse them strategically, and counter unique enemy mechanics to forge world-shattering combat styles.
Fragment Collapse
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Ranked #8 for Shardkeep fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Shardkeep.
Fragment Collapse is a satisfying tile matching rogue-like deck-builder where you defragment your hard drive by matching clusters of files. Discover powerful cartridges to upgrade your computer, boost your files with enhancements and build massive combos for file-busting mayhem!
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Life is Strange - Episode 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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.
Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Shardkeep.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Shardkeep.
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?
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Shardkeep.
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.
The Looker
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Shardkeep.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Shardkeep.
A Short Handcrafted Pixel Art Platformer that follows Sheepy, an abandoned plushy brought to life. Sheepy: A Short Adventure is the first short game from MrSuicideSheep.
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Shardkeep.
A twenty-dollar bill, four summers, fifteen years, and a one of a kind life. Create an experience that’s all your own in this near-fully customizable visual novel where you grow from childhood to adulthood with the lonely boy next door.
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More from Meridian Studios
Other recommendable Steam games by Meridian Studios, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Hexhorde
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Another title from Meridian Studios, the studio behind Shardkeep. Shares Indie and Casual with Shardkeep.
A pixel-art horde survivor. Pick a hero, wade into the swarm, and let your weapons fire while you move, level up, and shape a build — stacking upgrades, chasing synergies, and evolving your gear across stages full of enemies.
The Ancient Caverns
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Another title from Meridian Studios, the studio behind Shardkeep. Shares Indie with Shardkeep.
A dark-fantasy roguelite dungeon crawler. Choose a class and descend through ever-shifting caverns, battling tier-scaled monsters floor by floor. Death takes your gear, but the artifacts you recover are yours forever. Loot, craft, and return to town to grow stronger.
Bagatto
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Another title from Meridian Studios, the studio behind Shardkeep. Shares Strategy and Indie with Shardkeep.
Bagatto is a pixel-art poker roguelike. Score with poker hands, multiply them with a growing arsenal of Jokers, and blow past every blind by absurd margins. Buy, sell and stack wild synergies through escalating antes and cunning boss battles — the best trick is the one you build yourself.
Bulwark Tower Defense
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Another title from Meridian Studios, the studio behind Shardkeep. Shares Strategy and Indie with Shardkeep.
Bulwark Tower Defense is a competitive team tower-defense: wall your lane with auto-fighting units to hold back the waves, then spend essence to send monsters that break your rivals' defenses. Grow your economy, upgrade a shared King, and outlast the enemy team across 1v1–4v4.
Twigs and Firewood
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Another title from Meridian Studios, the studio behind Shardkeep. Shares Indie and Casual with Shardkeep.
A cozy first-person woodland game. Wander autumn glades gathering twigs and firewood, tend a crackling campfire, cook hearty meals, and travel between peaceful areas — buying tools, comforts and campsites to make each spot your own. No pressure, no fail states: just gentle days by the fire.
Crownhold
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Another title from Meridian Studios, the studio behind Shardkeep. Shares Strategy and Indie with Shardkeep.
Crownhold is a cozy storybook tower defense. Line winding roads with archers, mages, artillery and barracks, upgrade them into 12 mighty specializations, lead a hero and rain meteors on the goblin horde across 21 hand-painted levels — then hold on in Endless mode.
Verlicia Saga
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Another title from Meridian Studios, the studio behind Shardkeep. Shares Strategy and Indie with Shardkeep.
Verlicia Saga is a fantasy, turn-based tactical RPG. Command a growing army across a branching campaign of grid battles: master the weapon triangle, promote and reclass your soldiers, forge bonds and marriages, and face permadeath where every fallen hero stays lost.
The Antler and Ale Inn
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Another title from Meridian Studios, the studio behind Shardkeep. Shares Strategy and Indie with Shardkeep.
A cozy fantasy tavern-building sim. Lay the floors, raise the walls, and furnish every corner — then cook, brew, and pour for a village of hungry guests. Hire your crew, run the inn upstairs, and grow a four-table taproom into a legendary multi-storey estate. No timers — play at your own pace.
Frequently asked about Shardkeep
- What games are most similar to Shardkeep?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Shardkeep are Leaf Us Alone, Cyberdeck Shuffle, Glazed Mirror : Myriad Cards.
- Who developed Shardkeep?
- Shardkeep was developed by Meridian Studios.
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