Shard Cycle
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Shard Cycle

Shard Cycle is an incremental prospecting game about getting richer and stronger. Sweep your cursor through fields of thousands of crystals, spend your drops on upgrades, and unlock effects that shatter hundreds at once. Dig deeper for rarer, tougher crystals. Watch your numbers climb.

DEV: Narog GamesPUB: Narog GamesAppID 4564230

Is Shard Cycle still being updated? — the short answer, with the evidence.

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From Steam's own record

Current price

$3.99$4.99−20%

Development

Unusually quiet

Last heard from developers

4 months ago

Usual rhythm

not yet established

Substantial updates (6 mo)

2

Current silence

cannot be judged

The codex holds only 2 days of announcements for this game, so its normal rhythm cannot be established. The developers were last heard 4 months ago. 2 substantial updates landed in the past six months, 2 of them major. It is currently 20% below its usual price.

We hold a thin slice of this game's announcement history, so its normal rhythm can't be established. That is a limit of our record, not evidence about the game.

Recent Transmissions

2 entries in codex

Community AnnouncementsMay 22, 2026
Main game loop rework

What's newLess grinding, more chasing.The build loop has been overhauled. Mining isn't just about numbers going up anymore, what drops now shapes the run.Upgrade list reduced from 20 to 3Attachment and ability items drop with rolled statsAb…

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Community AnnouncementsApr 17, 2026
Big Update: Layers, Tutorial, Trader, and More

A new gameplay loop: LayersThe single flat run is gone. You now descend through Layers, each with its own difficulty, crystal mix, and rewards. Unlock Layer 2 by destroying enough crystals on Layer 1, and onwards from there. Pick your desti…

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