Computed from player tags · Not ranked by quality
24 games like Stoneshard (2026)
Every game below overlaps with Stoneshard on things players said about it rather than on our opinion of what feels alike. Each entry shows what it matched on, so you can throw out the ones matching on the part you did not care about.
The short version
- Closest match: Iratus: Lord of the Dead, which both fantasy, strategy and difficult.
- Stoneshard is tagged RPG, Rogue-like, Strategy, Pixel Graphics, Survival, Turn-Based, Open World Survival Craft, Procedural Generation by Steam players. Those tags are what the matching runs on.
- 24 games qualify, each with at least fifty player reviews behind its sentiment figure.
- 3 are free to download, so you can test the resemblance yourself at no cost.
How these were matched
Steam tags carry the most weight, because players apply them and they describe how a game feels rather than how it was filed. Souls-like, Atmospheric and Cozy exist as tags and as nothing else, which is exactly the vocabulary this question needs. Formal genres count for less, themes and a shared studio for more.
Tags carried by more than a third of the catalogue are thrown out before matching. Nearly everything is tagged Singleplayer, so matching on it is matching on nothing. That cutoff is computed from the catalogue rather than fixed, so it moves as the catalogue grows.
All 24, closest first
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Iratus: Lord of the Dead
Why it matched: both fantasy, strategy and difficult; shares 11 player tags including RPG, Strategy and Indie; released around the same time (2020).
Iratus: Lord of the Dead is a turn-based tactical roguelike RPG set in a dark fantasy universe. Lead an army of undead to help an angry necromancer in his quest to reach the surface world and bring death to the mortal realms!
Iratus: Lord of the Dead at a glance Released 2020 Studio Unfrozen Player sentiment 86% positive of 8,251 Price $2.99 RPGStrategyIndieTurn-Based CombatRogue-likeDark FantasyTurn-Based2D
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Dungeon of the ENDLESS
Why it matched: both survival, strategy and difficult; shares 11 player tags including Rogue-like, Strategy and Pixel Graphics.
Dungeon of the ENDLESS™ is a Rogue-Like Dungeon-Defense game, in which the player and their team of heroes must protect the generator of their crashed ship while exploring an ever-expanding dungeon, all while facing waves of monsters and special events as they try to find their way out...
Dungeon of the ENDLESS at a glance Released 2014 Studio AMPLITUDE Studios Player sentiment 85% positive of 14,040 Price $11.99 Rogue-likeStrategyPixel GraphicsIndieRPGDungeon CrawlerProcedural GenerationDifficult
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Slay the Spire
Why it matched: both fantasy, strategy and difficult; shares 10 player tags including Rogue-like, Turn-Based and Strategy; released around the same time (2019).
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
Slay the Spire at a glance Released 2019 Studio Mega Crit Player sentiment 97% positive of 217,947 Price $24.99 Rogue-likeTurn-BasedStrategyReplay ValueIndieDifficultDungeon CrawlerRPG
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Darkest Dungeon
Why it matched: both fantasy, strategy and difficult; shares 10 player tags including Turn-Based Combat, Dark Fantasy and Dungeon Crawler; released around the same time (2016).
Darkest Dungeon is a challenging gothic roguelike turn-based RPG about the psychological stresses of adventuring. Recruit, train, and lead a team of flawed heroes against unimaginable horrors, stress, disease, and the ever-encroaching dark. Can you keep your heroes together when all hope is lost?
Darkest Dungeon at a glance Released 2016 Studio Red Hook Studios Player sentiment 92% positive of 161,942 Price $3.74 Turn-Based CombatDark FantasyDungeon CrawlerRogue-likeRPGDifficultTurn-BasedStrategy
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Elin
Why it matched: both open world, strategy and difficult; shares 9 player tags including Early Access, Rogue-like and Pixel Graphics; released around the same time (2024).
Successor to the roguelike RPG "Elona". Adventure, survival, crafting, home-building, myths passed down, and stories of humans and Elea spun. What scars will you leave on the land of Ylva?
Elin at a glance Released 2024 Studio Lafrontier Player sentiment 93% positive of 9,154 Price $19.99 Early AccessRogue-likePixel GraphicsRPGDungeon Crawler2DSandboxDifficult
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Across the Obelisk
Why it matched: both fantasy, strategy and difficult; shares 9 player tags including Rogue-like, Strategy and 2D; released around the same time (2022).
Set forth in a co-op roguelite deckbuilder where every choice matters! Craft decks of breathtaking power. Journey alone or with up to three friends. Plot your party’s path to glory and face powerful enemies in deep tactical combat on your quest to save the kingdom of Senenthia in Across the Obelisk!
Across the Obelisk at a glance Released 2022 Studio Dreamsite Games Player sentiment 80% positive of 13,086 Price $19.99 Rogue-likeStrategy2DRPGTurn-BasedDungeon CrawlerReplay ValueDifficult
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Dwarf Fortress
Why it matched: both open world, survival, fantasy, strategy and difficult; shares 6 player tags including Strategy, Sandbox and Survival; released around the same time (2022).
Build a fortress and try to help your dwarves survive against a deeply generated world. Keep your dwarves happy, grow their community and beware of digging too deeply. The deepest, most intricate simulation of a world that's ever been created.
Dwarf Fortress at a glance Released 2022 Studio Bay 12 Games Player sentiment 95% positive of 31,446 Price $29.99 StrategySandboxSurvivalRogue-likeProcedural GenerationDifficult
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Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden
Why it matched: both survival, fantasy, strategy and difficult; shares 7 player tags including Strategy, RPG and Turn-Based Combat; released around the same time (2018).
A tactical game combining the turn-based combat of XCOM with story, exploration, stealth, and strategy. Take control of a team of Mutants navigating a post-human Earth. Created by a team including former HITMAN leads and the designer of PAYDAY.
Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden at a glance Released 2018 Studio The Bearded Ladies Player sentiment 90% positive of 20,534 Price $34.99 StrategyRPGTurn-Based CombatTurn-BasedSurvivalDark FantasyDifficult
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Albion Online
Why it matched: both open world, survival, fantasy, strategy and difficult; shares 6 player tags including Sandbox, RPG and Survival; released around the same time (2018).
Albion Online is a fantasy sandbox MMORPG featuring a player-driven economy, classless combat system, and intense PvP battles. Explore a vast open world full of danger and opportunity. Grow your wealth, forge alliances, and leave your mark on the world of Albion.
Albion Online at a glance Released 2018 Studio Sandbox Interactive GmbH Player sentiment 78% positive of 93,490 Price Free SandboxRPGSurvivalMedievalStrategyDifficult
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Wartales
Why it matched: both open world, survival and strategy; shares 8 player tags including RPG, Medieval and Turn-Based Combat; released around the same time (2023).
Wartales is an open world RPG in which you lead a group of mercenaries in their search for wealth across a massive medieval universe. Explore the world, recruit companions, collect bounties and unravel the secrets of the tombs of the ancients!
Wartales at a glance Released 2023 Studio Shiro Games Player sentiment 86% positive of 35,569 Price $34.99 RPGMedievalTurn-Based CombatStrategySandboxSurvivalTurn-BasedIndie
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The Escapists
Why it matched: both survival, strategy and difficult; shares 9 player tags including Pixel Graphics, Strategy and 2D.
The Escapists provides players the opportunity of experiencing a light-hearted insight into everyday prison life with the main objective being that of escaping!
The Escapists at a glance Released 2015 Studio Mouldy Toof Studios Player sentiment 90% positive of 16,194 Price $3.59 Pixel GraphicsStrategy2DIndieSurvivalDifficultRPGSandbox
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Never Split the Party
Why it matched: both survival and difficult; shares 10 player tags including Rogue-like, Indie and Replay Value; released around the same time (2019).
Never Split the Party is an ultra social rogue-like! You're one of four adventurers joining together to explore a procedurally generated dungeon, amass powerful upgrades, and cooperate with your fellow adventures to conquer and crush the evil dungeon champions!
Never Split the Party at a glance Released 2019 Studio Legend Studio Player sentiment 76% positive of 4,400 Price Free Rogue-likeIndieReplay ValueDifficultDungeon CrawlerPixel GraphicsProcedural GenerationRPG
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Amazing Cultivation Simulator
Why it matched: both open world, survival, fantasy and strategy; shares 7 player tags including RPG, Sandbox and Strategy; released around the same time (2020).
Rise up in a search for immortality in this strategy sim and management game based on Chinese mythology. Rebuild your sect and train new disciples through the path of cultivation. Research magic and gather mystical artifacts, face ancient dangers and other sects in your path to spiritual ascension.
Amazing Cultivation Simulator at a glance Released 2020 Studio GSQ Games Player sentiment 86% positive of 23,608 Price $24.99 RPGSandboxStrategySurvivalIndieEarly Access2D
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Soda Dungeon 2
Why it matched: both fantasy and strategy; shares 9 player tags including RPG, Pixel Graphics and Dungeon Crawler; released around the same time (2020).
Everyone’s favorite laid-back dungeon crawler returns in Soda Dungeon 2. Featuring a new adventure, a whole town to upgrade, crafting, new classes, alternate dimensions, and more! It’s everything you loved about the original plus all the stuff you’ve been asking for.
Soda Dungeon 2 at a glance Released 2020 Studio AN Productions Player sentiment 94% positive of 5,665 Price Free RPGPixel GraphicsDungeon CrawlerIndie2DTurn-BasedTurn-Based CombatMedieval
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Against the Storm
Why it matched: both open world, survival, fantasy and strategy; shares 6 player tags including Strategy, Rogue-like and Survival; released around the same time (2023).
A dark fantasy city builder where you must rebuild civilization in the face of apocalyptic rains. As the Queen’s Viceroy, lead humans, beavers, lizards, foxes, and harpies to reclaim the wilderness and secure a future for civilization's last survivors.
Against the Storm at a glance Released 2023 Studio Eremite Games Player sentiment 94% positive of 37,338 Price $8.99 StrategyRogue-likeSurvivalDark FantasySandboxReplay Value
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Crypt of the NecroDancer
Why it matched: both fantasy, strategy and difficult; shares 8 player tags including Difficult, Rogue-like and Pixel Graphics.
Crypt of the NecroDancer is an award winning hardcore roguelike rhythm game. Move to the music and deliver beatdowns to the beat! Groove to the epic Danny Baranowsky soundtrack, or select songs from your own MP3 collection!
Crypt of the NecroDancer at a glance Released 2014 Studio Brace Yourself Games Player sentiment 95% positive of 26,481 Price $14.99 DifficultRogue-likePixel GraphicsDungeon CrawlerIndieRPG2DProcedural Generation
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FTL: Faster Than Light
Why it matched: both survival, strategy and difficult; shares 8 player tags including Rogue-like, Strategy and Indie.
This "spaceship simulation roguelike-like" allows you to take your ship and crew on an adventure through a randomly generated galaxy filled with glory and bitter defeat.
FTL: Faster Than Light at a glance Released 2012 Studio Subset Games Player sentiment 95% positive of 78,616 Price $9.99 Rogue-likeStrategyIndieDifficultReplay ValueProcedural Generation2DSurvival
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Craft The World
Why it matched: both open world, survival, fantasy and strategy; shares 6 player tags including Sandbox, Survival and Strategy.
Craft The World is a unique sandbox strategy game, the mix of Dungeon Keeper, Terraria and Dwarf Fortress. Explore a random generated world populated by dangerous creatures, build a dwarf fortress, gather resources, and craft all the items, weapons, and armor you need.
Craft The World at a glance Released 2014 Studio Dekovir Entertainment Player sentiment 88% positive of 17,058 Price $18.99 SandboxSurvivalStrategyIndieRPG2D
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Balatro
Why it matched: both strategy and difficult; shares 9 player tags including Rogue-like, Strategy and Pixel Graphics; released around the same time (2024).
The poker roguelike. Balatro is a hypnotically satisfying deckbuilder where you play illegal poker hands, discover game-changing jokers, and trigger adrenaline-pumping, outrageous combos.
Balatro at a glance Released 2024 Studio LocalThunk Player sentiment 98% positive of 197,690 Price $14.99 Rogue-likeStrategyPixel GraphicsReplay ValueTurn-BasedDifficult2DIndie
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Oxygen Not Included
Why it matched: both open world, survival, strategy and difficult; shares 6 player tags including Survival, 2D and Sandbox; released around the same time (2019).
Oxygen Not Included is a space-colony simulation game. Deep inside an alien space rock your industrious crew will need to master science, overcome strange new lifeforms, and harness incredible space tech to survive, and possibly, thrive.
Oxygen Not Included at a glance Released 2019 Studio Klei Entertainment Player sentiment 97% positive of 143,589 Price $24.99 Survival2DSandboxStrategyIndieDifficult
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The Last Spell
Why it matched: both fantasy and strategy; shares 8 player tags including Strategy, RPG and Turn-Based Combat; released around the same time (2023).
Defend the last bastion of humanity with your squad of heroes! Exterminate fiendish monsters with magic and brute force by night and re-build your battered city defenses by day in this tactical RPG with rogue-lite mechanics.
The Last Spell at a glance Released 2023 Studio Ishtar Games Player sentiment 91% positive of 13,649 Price $6.24 StrategyRPGTurn-Based CombatTurn-Based2DDark FantasyPixel GraphicsRogue-like
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Dragon Cliff
Why it matched: both fantasy and strategy; shares 8 player tags including RPG, Strategy and Pixel Graphics; released around the same time (2018).
Dragon Cliff is a Semi-Idle RPG game with deep and complex itemization/skill systems to support endless character builds. Players are to collect adventurers, kill monsters, advance talent trees, enchant/reforge equipment, discover scrolls and finally assemble the most powerful adventure team!
Dragon Cliff at a glance Released 2018 Studio Meta Interaction Player sentiment 89% positive of 8,184 Price $1.99 RPGStrategyPixel GraphicsIndieDungeon CrawlerTurn-Based Combat2DTurn-Based
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Don't Starve
Why it matched: both open world, survival and difficult; shares 8 player tags including Survival, Open World Survival Craft and Indie.
Don’t Starve is an uncompromising wilderness survival game full of science and magic. Enter a strange and unexplored world full of strange creatures, dangers, and surprises. Gather resources to craft items and structures that match your survival style.
Don't Starve at a glance Released 2013 Studio Klei Entertainment Player sentiment 97% positive of 113,392 Price $9.99 SurvivalOpen World Survival CraftIndieSandboxRogue-likeReplay ValueDifficult2D
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The Binding of Isaac
Why it matched: both survival and difficult; shares 9 player tags including Rogue-like, Indie and Replay Value.
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The Binding of Isaac at a glance Released 2011 Studio Edmund McMillen Player sentiment 95% positive of 62,842 Price $4.99 Rogue-likeIndieReplay ValueDifficultProcedural Generation2DDungeon CrawlerSurvival
Common questions
What game is most like Stoneshard?
Iratus: Lord of the Dead, on the evidence we have. It both fantasy, strategy and difficult. That is a statement about overlap, not a promise you will like it as much: two games can share every tag and still feel different to play.
How is "similar to Stoneshard" decided?
By overlap on the tags Steam players applied to each game, the formal genres, the themes both sit in, and whether the same studio made them. Tags carry the most weight because players write them, so they describe how a game feels rather than how it was filed. Tags carried by more than a third of the catalogue are ignored: matching on "Singleplayer" is matching on nothing. Every entry below shows exactly what it matched on.
Are these ranked by quality?
No. They are ordered by how much they overlap with Stoneshard. Where two games overlap equally, the better received one goes first, but that only moves a game a place or two. Each entry shows its own player sentiment so you can weigh that separately.
Do you get paid for these recommendations?
No. The order is computed from tag and genre overlap and nothing else. No placement here can be bought, and a game appearing high on this page is a statement about resemblance rather than an endorsement.