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Shardlight
A post-apocalyptic adventure game from the publisher that brought you Primordia, Gemini Rue and Technobabylon! A young woman stricken with a deadly plague searches for a cure in a hostile world.
Details
- Released
- March 8, 2016
- Developer
- Wadjet Eye Games
- Genres
- Point-and-click · Survival · Role-playing (RPG) · Adventure · Indie
- Publisher
- Wadjet Eye Games
- Platforms
- PC
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Shardlight Reviews
Professional reviews from gaming critics
Although it has some minor flaws, Shardlight nevertheless stands out as an excellent point & click adventure that pays homage to its predecessors.
In many ways Shardlight is a typical WadjetEye adventure game - low-res graphics, common sense puzzle solutions, wildly imaginative, well written and hugely entertaining. The world is interesting and manages to stand out against the multitudes of post-apocalyptic landscapes in videogames. Amy Wellard is a sympathetic and interesting player character, Tiberius is a ruthless villain whose motivations you can actually understand, and the other characters all have their own believable wants and n...
Shardlight is definitely worth your time if you’re a fan of point-and-click adventures or have enjoyed Wadjet Eye’s back catalogue. It’s got a certain charm about it that’s different than other post-apocalyptic games, and feels distinct by not centring on the disaster itself but by paying attention to the characters and the situations they get into. While the second half lacks all the bonuses in terms of pacing and puzzles, the whole experience is definitely worth checking out. Wadjet Eye Games have proven their consistency with the genre once again and might just be one of the best de…
Reviewing Shardlight is a tough one, because although you can admire that developers can create such playable and engaging stories using modest resources, you may wonder whether they can't afford more.
A rushed ending is really the game’s only let-down. A larger conspiracy, or more surprising reveal, might have given it a heftier punch. And it certainly needed a few more puzzles in the later stages, a bit more to do. But these are minor niggles in a really splendid adventure game of the sort we see too rarely. Grown up, well written, carefully paced, and genuinely interesting to explore.