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Shambles: Sons of Apocalypse

2025

Should you play it?

“The world you knew is already collapsed.”As an explorer in a bunker, explore a new world 500 years in the future and decide its fate. You can lead the world back to doom or bring it to peace. It all depends on your choices.

What works

  • Deep and engaging narrative with multiple story branches
  • Extensive deckbuilding and character customization
  • Large content volume with many endings and quests
  • Challenging strategic combat
  • No pay-to-win elements, all unlocks earned through play

Things to keep in mind

  • Punishing difficulty spikes and unbalanced curses
  • Long and sometimes tedious combat encounters
  • Ui and translation issues reported
  • Slow pacing and lack of combat speed-up options
  • Some players find grind-heavy progression frustrating

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feel the closest overall

  • Three Kingdoms: The Blood Moon

  • Deck of Ashes

  • Arcanium: Rise of Akhan

  • 纸境英雄 Papercraft

  • Union of Gnomes

  • Erannorth Chronicles

  • Railroads & Catacombs

  • Chained Echoes

  • Shadowveil: Legend of The Five Rings

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Hidden Gems

Less popular games with surprisingly high similarity

  • Nitro Kid

  • Blightstone

  • Dead Town Tales

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Each dot is a game. They are arranged from the game’s motivation profile. Closer dots usually mean more similar reasons to play (exploration, competition, relaxation, etc.)—not that one game is “better” than another.

  • Purple star: this page’s game — everything on the map is relative to it.
  • Coloured chips: click to highlight games that mainly differ on that motivation; click again to reset.
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  • Scroll or double-click the chart to zoom out and see more games.

Why don’t the axes read like a score? This view uses t-SNE: it only keeps who is close to whom. The scales are not “good to bad” or hours played—they separate groups on the map. Read distance between dots, not the axis numbers (hidden on purpose).

Shambles: Sons of Apocalypse: Broadly representative of its motivational profile, with a few distinct shifts. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Survival, Violence, Fellowship, Intimacy. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Leadership, Story. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Status.

Last update: 26/07/2026