SkyShard: City Battler

SkyShard: City Battler

Early access since May 2026

City Building Auto Battler! Build your kingdom with powerful weapons, walls, houses, and endless synergies, then battle other players in asynchronous multiplayer, or overcome various solo challenges.

97% positive · 105 reviews
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Evaluation

SkyShard: City Battler entered Steam Early Access on May 25, 2026. At launch, the developer published a roadmap explicitly listing content still to come, including final art for all units, enchantments, heroes, and islands; new heroes and quests; new units; new solo adventures; new game modes; a Duel Mode (challenge other players using build codes); and an Offline Mode. The developer described the Early Access period as a time to add "even more content and put the final touches on the game." Since entering Early Access, the developer has been extremely active, shipping seven major content updates between May 25 and August 10, 2026 — roughly one every two weeks. These patches have delivered new units, new solo adventures, new art, balance changes, and system improvements at a rapid pace, consistent with the developer's stated commitment to ongoing development. The most recent major update (Patch 1.0.7) shipped on August 10, 2026, less than a month before today. None of the roadmap items have been marked as complete by the developer, and the game remains in Early Access. This is a game actively being built toward a 1.0 release.
Evidence
Patch 1.0.7 shipped with a new solo adventure, new unit art, balance changes, and bug fixes — the seventh major content update since Early Access launch.
news post · Aug 10, 2026 source content shipped
high
Patch 1.0.6 added three new units and new art for multiple existing units, continuing the cadence of new content additions.
news post · Jul 23, 2026 source content shipped
high

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Details

Developer
Publisher
RegisKillbin
Achievements
32
Platform
Windows
Controller
—
Steam Deck
Playable
Players
Single-player · Multiplayer · PvP

About this game

Wizards are waging war among the skies to conquer a shattered world. Lay claim to your skyshard and build a city full of magical buildings and enchanted weapons!

Building and Battling

SkyShard is a fantasy city-building auto-battler where you’ll need to outsmart your opponents by assembling the most powerful city you can. It will take a combination of careful resource management and planning to acquire the right buildings for your town, along with clever positioning of your buildings to unlock surprising and potent effects.

As your town grows, other players will attack with their own skyshards, and you’ll need to survive 16 rounds to win. Sometimes they’ll surprise you with a humbling defeat, but that’s the best way to learn! With asynchronous PVP, there’s absolutely no time pressure. You can take as long as you like to arrange your city perfectly. 

Only the wisest wizards can achieve a perfect victory or climb the leaderboard and achieve the rank of Archmage!

Endless Buildings and Synergies

In the world of SkyShard, you’ll encounter buildings from a variety of factions, each with their own special abilities, and embracing them all can give you a big advantage.

  • The Tinker faction uses gnomish technology to make buildings operate at peak efficiency, but it can definitely backfire.

  • Magic harnesses explosive powers that can deal lots of damage to entire neighborhoods. 

  • Nature is all about gaining health and staying alive, even against the most aggressive enemies. 

You’ll encounter even more factions with 170+ unique buildings that have diverse and formidable effects to discover. 

Truly Independent

We made SkyShard to be a game that puts players first. We’re two meager strategy-gaming YouTubers, ItsBen321 and RegisKillbin, who got tired of games always making decisions that were focused on monetization and forced engagement

So we decided to put our money and time where our mouths are, and make our own game!

We might make some mistakes along the way, this is our first game after all, but we’ll always be around on YouTube and Twitch, listening to players, and working to make the game better and keeping players updated on our thoughts, plans, challenges, and triumphs.

Now you get out there and build an amazing city, while we go and build an awesome game!

Last evaluated Sep 6, 2026
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