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.

Shardlight is a adventure, point & click and female protagonist game developed and published by Wadjet Eye Games.
Released on March 08th 2016 is available in English on Windows, MacOS and Linux.

It has received 718 reviews of which 649 were positive and 69 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.5 out of 10. 😎

The game is currently priced at 5.99€ on Steam and has a 60% discount.

The Steam community has classified Shardlight into these genres:

Adventure Point & Click Female Protagonist Indie Post-apocalyptic Pixel Graphics Singleplayer Atmospheric Story Rich 2D Mystery Puzzle Third Person Multiple Endings Classic Hand-drawn RPG

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Requirements

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Windows

OS: Windows ME or higher
Processor: Pentium or higher
Memory: 64 MB RAM
Graphics: 640x400, 32-bit colour: 700 Mhz system minimum
DirectX: Version 5.2
Storage: 2 GB available space
Sound Card: All DirectX-compatible sound cards

MacOS

OS: 10.11
Graphics: 640x360, 1.8 Ghz system

Linux

OS: Ubuntu, Debian - (64 bit)
Processor: 2.7 GHz Dual Core (and above, can run on single core)
Graphics: OpenGL
Sound Card: Alsa/PulseAudio/DSP

Reviews

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Dec. 2024

Shardlight is a great point-and-click adventure from Wadjet Eye Games. The post-apocalyptic setting is immersive, with beautiful hand-painted visuals and an atmospheric soundtrack. The voice acting is excellent, making the characters and story feel alive. The puzzles are logical and fit well into the narrative without being frustrating. If you enjoy story-driven adventures with a unique and thoughtful world, this one is definitely worth playing. Give it a try!

Nov. 2024

i would say this game is worth a play especially on sale, the graphics and art style in general is fairly easy on the eye and the story and world-building was on point and very enjoyable i loved the entire story, the actual game-play was slightly lacking not in its actual function just that the puzzle's were not very difficult there wasnt really a moment i fealt really challanged in fact i felt the game held my hand a bit through it all. that being said my 8 year old has done a playthrough and it was difficult but not impossible for him to get through. I feel this is an amazing beginner level entry to the point-and-click genre.

Oct. 2024

I know this game is a little older, but really, it is worth a try. It is a nice callback to great indie games and deserves a chance. Really a good ol' point and puzzler

July 2024

When it comes to Wadjet Eye Games set in a post apocalypse, I don't think this is my favorite but Primordia is really difficult to beat in that bracket. As it stands though, the world presented here is really interesting. When it comes to post-apocalypse worlds as settings, I think I prefer the ones where civilization has shifted rather than collapsed. Shardlight shows a world that's still orderly and in many ways still quite normal, but the world has still clearly been devastated by war and disease. Navigating this world, meeting the powers who are around and seeing how they may use their power was really engaging to me, and the puzzles that link the narrative were quite clear with a handful of exceptions where achievements were concerned. I've seen some negative reviews for this game based on its subject matter, but I really don't think that should stop anyone who is interested in this type of game from giving this one a shot. Again though, if the subject matter is too 2020 for you, check out Gemini Rue, Primordia, or Technobabylon. I only just realized that I have a number of games by Wadjet Eye Games, and I've been really happy with all of them. Unavowed, Old Skies, Strangeland, here I come!

July 2024

I had to really mull over what score to give Shardlight, more than I usually have to at least. On the one hand, this is a truly beautiful game, maybe Wadjet Eye's prettiest game. The background and portrait art is sublime, some of the best I've seen in a point & click game to date. The music is excellent too and the voice acting is the same high standard you'd expect from Wadjet. Storywise, Shardlight is nothing if not engaging, with a setting that seems a touch derivative at first, but soon reveals a multitude of interesting elements. Amy, the protagonist, is strongly characterised too, and though her motivations become a little muddled by the end, she's a main character and the rest of the cast is varied and decently written too. So what's wrong? Well, it comes down to the gameplay unfortunately, though I hesitate to say it's "wrong". Like Francisco Gonzales' previous game, A Golden Wake, the puzzles are often simplistic and a touch dull. It's certainly an improvement on that game, but not by as much as I'd like. Outside of a couple of slightly more interesting head-scratchers, the puzzling fare is mostly uninspired inventory puzzles, with the solution almost always obvious. Where other Wadjet games each have an interesting wrinkle to their puzzles (Blackwell the ghost stuff, Gemini Rue the investigation work, Technobabylon more tech-y puzzles, etc.), Shardlight's gimmick is... a crossbow? While I liked the story overall, it did feel a little rushed. I finished the game in a little over five hours and though there's an impressive variety and quantity of locations, you spend so little time in most of them that it makes Shardlight feel more slight than it is. Where a game like Gemini Rue resused its environments a little too often, I really wouldn't have minded if Shardlight had stretched out some of its more neglected areas a little. The story is generally quite straightforward too, which does mean there's not as much adventure game confusion on what to do next, but it started to feel more than a little rail-roady at times. These seem like some fairly minor complaints, but they do combine to somewhat tar what could have been a really excellent point and click adventure. As it stands, I'd still heartily recommend Shardlight on its aesthetic and narrative strengths alone, it's still one of Wadjet Eye's best, but if you're hungry for some fiendishly clever or original puzzles, you just won't find them here. Fantastic art and a strong setting, absolutely, but treat it more as an interactive story than a true puzzle game.

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Developer

Wadjet Eye Games

Publisher

Wadjet Eye Games

Release 08 Mar 2016

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