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Embercore · Published by Embercore · Official site ↗
Last updated 30 Sept 2026
Shardbreakers is an action roguelite where you build your own spell engine. Combine Skill and Condition Shards to decide what triggers, what fires, and how your magic behaves. Create Resonance patterns, amplify your power, and prove your build in real-time combat.
Action, Indie, RPG, Strategy · More free games
In Shardbreakers, you shape your spell engine by combining Shards to unleash powerful Resonance patterns. Tackle challenging roguelite combat as you strategize and adapt with Embercore’s unique indie RPG experience.
About this game
In Shardbreakers, you don’t just collect upgrades - you build a spell engine. Socket Shards to decide what triggers what and chain spells together. Your weapon attacks automatically and lighter spells trigger on their own, while your most decisive spells remain under your control.
Choose your Skill and Condition Shards to decide what triggers, what fires, and how your magic behaves. Arrange them into Resonance patterns to amplify their power. Then take your engine into battle and watch your choices come to life as spells trigger, chain, and cascade through combat.
Step into dense, readable combat rooms built to test your ideas in motion. As your spells trigger, chain, and cascade, you can see exactly why your build works, or where it falls short.
A full room isn’t just danger. It’s fuel that makes your build louder.
Change the trigger, change the arrangement, change the result. Build around spreading effects, cascading reactions, powerful payoff spells, or entirely different combinations of Shards. Each run gives you another way to solve the fight.
Every run asks you to make trade-offs. Choose your route, spend your resources, reroll what doesn’t fit, upgrade what does, or recover before the next fight. Don’t just take what looks powerful - choose what your build actually needs.
Unlock new Shards and expand the possibilities of your spell engine. Start from different foundations with the Hunter, Arcanist, and Knight, then shape each run through the engine you build.
Your hero sets your starting frame, but the spell engine you author is entirely your own.
WISHLIST SHARDBREAKERS NOW!!!
Demo coming soon.
System Requirements
Will my PC run this? →Minimum
- OS *: Windows 7 or newer, 64-bit
- Processor: Intel Core i3-6100 / AMD FX-8350
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: GTX 580 / AMD HD 7870
- Network: Broadband Internet connection
- Storage: 2 GB available space
Recommended
- OS *: Windows 7 or newer, 64-bit
- Processor: Intel Core i5-4670K / AMD Ryzen 5 1500X
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: GTX 1050 / AMD HD 7970
- Network: Broadband Internet connection
- Storage: 4 GB available space
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Latest news
AnnouncementsOfficial
📣 Shardbreakers Playtest Extended by 2 Days
Thank you again to everyone who has joined the Shardbreakers Playtest! 💗Following our previous announcement, we’ve decided to keep the Playtest open for an additional 2 days.The new closing time is:September 30 at 9:00 PM PT / October 1 at 12:00 AM ET (4:00 AM UTC).We’ve seen a lot of new players discovering Shardbreakers over the past few days, and we want to give everyone a little more time to jump in, experiment with builds, and share their feedback.If there’s a build you still want to try, a challenge you want to finish, or feedback you haven’t shared yet, you now have two more days!You can also continue sending us feedback and bug reports on Discord after the Playtest closes. We’ll keep reading everything.Thank you again for all the support and for helping us make Shardbreakers better. 💗More news soon.- The Shardbreakers TeamRead full article on Community Announcements (Embercore)AnnouncementsOfficial
Shardbreakers Playtest Ends Soon
Thank you to everyone who has joined the Shardbreakers Playtest! ❤️ The Playtest will officially close on September 28 at 9:00 PM PT / September 29 at 12:00 AM ET (4:00 AM UTC).Over the past days, we’ve been reading your feedback, watching your runs, checking out your builds, and taking note of both what worked and what still needs improvement. Your feedback has been incredibly valuable to us and will help shape the next version of Shardbreakers. There are still a couple of days left, so if you have a build you want to try, a challenge you want to finish, or feedback you haven’t shared yet, now is the time! You can also continue sending us feedback and bug reports on Discord even after the Playtest closes. We’ll keep reading everything. Thank you again for spending your time with Shardbreakers and helping us make the game better. ❤️ More news soon. - The Shardbreakers TeamRead full article on Community Announcements (Embercore)AnnouncementsOfficial
Shardbreakers Has Changed - Come Play It With Us
Over the past months, we've reworked some of the biggest parts of Shardbreakers. Through all of those changes, we kept coming back to one idea:We want you to design your magic, not just collect upgrades.What’s changed?The Fusion system has been replaced by Resonance. Socket Shards together to create chains of spells, then rearrange them to change how your engine works. Where you place your Shards now matters - and moving just one can change the whole chain.Combat has changed too. Your build defines your options, and you decide how to use them - move where it performs best, choose which enemies to prioritize, and decide when to use your key abilities. The goal is for combat to feel engaging because you’re actively steering the build you created, not just letting it play itself.A full room isn't just danger. It's fuel for a working build.Our next playtest begins September 18Rather than just tell you about the changes, we'd like you to play them.We're opening the new version of Shardbreakers for playtesting on September 18, and we'd love to hear what you think.Whether you've followed Shardbreakers since the earlier version or you're discovering the game for the first time, you're welcome to join us.Want to play? Sign up for the playtest here:Sign Up for the Shardbreakers PlaytestYou can also join our Discord to meet the community, follow playtest updates, and share your feedback with us:Join the Shardbreakers DiscordWe'll share more details as we get closer to September 18.See you in the playtest!- The Shardbreakers TeamRead full article on Community Announcements (Embercore)AnnouncementsOfficial
Demo Temporarily Offline for a Major Rework
We will be taking the demo down soon to rework the core combat and spellcrafting experience.Our goal is simple: Improve the build so it feels immediately responsive, readable, and satisfying from the first minutes of play.The next demo version will focus on:Clearer spell interactionsStronger visual feedbackMore consistent build identity early in a runThe demo will return in a much stronger state. We will share an update when it is ready ⚡Read full article on Community Announcements (OH BAN SOAH)Patch NotesOfficial
DEMO UPDATE #02
Main Menu: Added a Demo Info section.Elite Loot: Elites can now drop rare materials (meta currency).Skill Fix: Fixed a bug that occurred when switching to empty or cooling-down skill slots.Boss Fix: Cleaned up “invisible obstacles” left behind by Zone 2 boss attacks.Make sure to update to enjoy the latest version of the Demo! Thank you for playing!Read full article on Community Announcements (OH BAN SOAH)
