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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...
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.