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Shardbound: Forge Your Path, Master Your Strategy

Bazooka Tango · 2017-04-06

SteamEpic Games Store

ActionIndieStrategyFree To PlayEarly Access

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer · Perspectives: Bird view / Isometric

Releases: Apr 06, 2017 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Shardbound brings fast, fun, and tactical card strategy to the table! Build your deck, take control of the board, and face off in exciting battles that are as unpredictable as they are action-packed.

Shardbound: Forge Your Path, Master Your Strategy is an Action, Indie, Strategy, Free To Play game released in 2017, free-to-play, with an estimated 200,000 .. 500,000 owners and a Mostly Positive review sentiment (71% of 1339 reviews).

0
playing now
71%
positive of 1.3k reviews
Mostly Positive
steam's rating (official)
200,000–500,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
Free
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-10-15 05:00 UTC (census sample)

Long ago, humanity had incredible magical talent and Chromacite technology by our current standards. They lived on a “normal” terrestrial world with several large continents, oceans, and the like. But that all changed...with the Worldbreak. A catastrophic event occurred. The world shattered, creating the geography we live with today. Humanity survived, but most all technology was lost and the old ways of life forgotten. Tribes formed, separated across the different islands. Eventually, air travel was (re)discovered, and a world culture was born again. The Weaver Wars - A period of prolonged w(Storyline via IGDB)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 16 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~2/week).
  • · Review velocity down 87% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (414 reviews).
  • · Top 13% of 27,841 Action games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-31

Review momentum

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31531520172026Week of 2017-04-01: 315 positiveWeek of 2017-04-01: 99 negativeWeek of 2017-05-01: 103 positiveWeek of 2017-05-01: 21 negativeWeek of 2017-06-01: 65 positiveWeek of 2017-06-01: 26 negativeWeek of 2017-07-01: 42 positiveWeek of 2017-07-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2017-08-01: 29 positiveWeek of 2017-08-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2017-09-01: 31 positiveWeek of 2017-09-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2017-10-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2017-10-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2017-11-01: 28 positiveWeek of 2017-11-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2017-12-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2017-12-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2018-01-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2018-02-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2018-02-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2018-03-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2018-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-04-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2018-04-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2018-05-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2018-05-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2018-06-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2018-07-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2018-08-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2018-08-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2018-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2018-09-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2018-10-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2018-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-11-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2018-12-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-01-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-02-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2019-03-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2019-03-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2019-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-05-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2019-05-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2019-06-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2019-07-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2019-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-09-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-12-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2020-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-02-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2020-03-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-04-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-05-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2020-06-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2021-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 16 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 21 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

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Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Details

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Player tags

3DPvPActionStrategyCard GameLore-RichTurn-BasedCompetitiveCard BattlerEarly Access

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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