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 an adventure developed by Wadjet Eye Games, released 8 March 2016 on Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). The main story takes about 9 hrs to finish.
What Shardlight is
Shardlight is an adventure game developed by Wadjet Eye Games and released in 2016. It is available on Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Adventure Game Studio.
The premise, in the publisher's words
The world ended on the day the bombs fell. Since then, it’s always been like this: disease, hunger, death. The ruling Aristocrats — a faceless oligarchy that controls all resources — have unchallenged authority. There’s never enough food, water, or vaccine to go around. The rich receive regular doses of vaccinations in exchange for their unconditional government support. The poor live in fear, superstition, and squalor until they die. Amy Wellard, a young woman reluctantly working for the government to qualify for the vaccine lottery, believes there’s a cure — and she’s going to find it. Even if it costs her her life.
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are science fiction and survival. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 19 achievements to unlock.
How it was received
Shardlight holds a critic score of 76 out of 100. That places it above 54% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2016 averaged 68, so it scored 8 points above the year average.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 9 hrs.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Pentium or higher, 64 MB RAM and 640x400, 32-bit colour: 700 Mhz system minimum. At 0GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 2GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it launched against
Shardlight launched on 8 March 2016, within three weeks of Tom Clancy's The Division, Dark Souls III, Stardew Valley and SuperHot. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Tom Clancy's The Division, Dark Souls III, Stardew Valley, SuperHot.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Shardlight yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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