Reviews look positive, but there are only a few so far.
At $14.99. It has been as low as $9.74.
- Story and characters: 62 reviews raised it, mostly praise
- Graphics: 35 reviews raised it, mostly praise
- Audio: 35 reviews raised it, mostly praise
- No recurring complaint surfaced in 224 sampled reviews
Based on 447 player reviews · updated 5 days ago
What players think
The recurring themes across 224 analysed reviews: what players praise, what divides them, and what to know.
Theres a bit of a story that's told through the discovery of "memory shards" and speaking to characters (only like 2 or 3 characters in the game i think).
If I had to rate it I'd probably give it a solid 7/10, where definitely the visuals and atmosphere are the star players here.
There's no voice acting which would have been nice but it also doesn't detract too much from the experience.
While I usually prefer a more varied gameplay experience mechanically, at the same time I like how Black Shard creates the space to be present and take in the megastructure in its overwhelming totality.
The game uses Unreal Engine and so it plays around heavily with ligthing effects and massive environments, usually with UE5 this comes at a heavy performance cost, but I'm happy to report it runs very well on 4070 Ti Super with over 120 FPS at max settings and 1440p, without hitching or framedrops.
The vibes you get from just the menu are incredible and I loved it.
Theme by theme
Every theme is scored by what reviewers actually said about it, not just whether they recommended the game.
No recurring complaints surfaced in this sample.
Ranked by how many sampled reviews mention each topic. A topic sits in a column by what reviewers said about that topic; the percentage beside it is how many of them recommended the game anyway. One more theme was raised by fewer than 5 sampled reviews and is not shown.
Should you buy it now?
Crit’s read on the price, from Steam price history.
Currently $14.99. The lowest we've tracked is $9.74.
The data behind the verdict
For the players who want the receipts.
We’ll surface hours-played once playtime ingestion ships.
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