Wadjet Eye Games·Released Mar 8, 2016·Single player
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 solid old-school adventure game with an overly familiar premise.
An imaginative, atmospheric setting with great art and quality voice acting, but Shardlight is by no means a great adventure game.
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.
