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Lead a survivor squad through a rat-overrun Capitol, fighting turn-based battles, scavenging supplies, and racing for shelter.
Released 13 Apr 2023
Escape Rat Swarms
Scavenge Under Pressure
Choose Shelter Routes
The Capitol has fallen to a vast rat swarm. You lead a crew of survivors through the ruined city, trying to reach bunker shelter while saving people and equipment along the way.
Combat takes place on grid-based maps in turn-based battles. Move your squad, use character abilities and steampunk weapons, and decide when to fight, scavenge, or push toward an exit as enemy pressure builds.
The campaign crosses three districts, with routes and missions to choose between. At shelters, you can rest and recover; between battles, gathered resources support upgrades and crafting. Characters have distinct abilities and equipment, while weapons need maintenance and cooling.
Developed by Clockwork Pile · Published by Retrovibe
Players who enjoy Shardpunk often praise its tense, methodical squad battles and the survival pressure of choosing between scavenging and escaping the advancing horde. Character abilities and team builds, pixel-art visuals, and the soundtrack also receive positive mentions. A recurring reservation is that missions and tactics can feel repetitive as the campaign progresses, with players differing on whether its difficulty is too punishing or becomes too easy.
Outrun the horde and survive another day in the war-torn Capitol.
In Shardpunk you already lost. Now you need to run for your life while saving as many people and pieces of equipment as possible. Keep on moving and use every skill and item at your disposal to reach the safety of fusion core-operated bunkers.
Put together a crew of survivors and use a range of steampunk weapons and bots to scavenge for resources, slow down the horde, and reach safety. Shardpunk mixes turn-based tactical strategy with RPG, survival, and resource management. From battle tactics to the most difficult decisions on who should receive the last medpack or rations, you’ll need to take charge and (hopefully) live with its consequences.
The Rat Swarm has breached the walls of The Capitol and flooded the city with its vermin horde. Push through three districts with progressively more vicious enemies, rising emergency levels, and supplies that dry up like blood from a knife wound. Constantly on the move, you’ll scavenge bodies and resource crates risking that with each detour the rats are getting closer...
XCOM meets Darkest Dungeon as Shardpunk combines turn-based tactical battles with the hard choices made at the bunker
Grid-based levels that are open for exploration and full of tactical possibilities while you run from the endless hordes of rats
A motley crew of characters to build your team, each one with unique abilities, equipment, perks, and shortcomings that affect their mates
Steampunk arsenal and technologies to use in battle that also requires mending and cooling, so they don’t backfire on you in the middle of the fight
Variety of resources to scavenge, upgrades to unlock, and equipment to craft
Detailed pixel art visuals that set the victorian mood and feast your eyes with fusion-core explosions
| Platforms | Windows |
|---|---|
| Achievements | 26 |
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| Controller support | Xbox |
| Controller required | No |
| Demo | View demo on Steam |
| DLC / extras | 4 listed on Steam |
