Likely worth it. Reviews lean strongly positive.
At $14.99. It has been as low as $4.49.
- Story and characters: 236 reviews raised it, mostly praise
- Audio: 104 reviews raised it, mostly praise
- Graphics: 51 reviews raised it, mostly praise
- No recurring complaint surfaced in 300 sampled reviews
Based on 802 player reviews · updated 6 days ago
What players think
The recurring themes across 300 analysed reviews: what players praise, what divides them, and what to know.
Longer answer: The plot is interesting, and the world it creates is believable and deep, and the characters are diverse with good voice acting.
Longer answer: The plot is interesting, and the world it creates is believable and deep, and the characters are diverse with good voice acting.
With old-school pixel-art graphics, classic point & click gameplay, and high production values all around, Shardlight is an ambitious game from the studio behind the Blackwell mysteries, A Golden Wake, and many other acclaimed indie adventures released over the past ten years.
I found the game to be far too easy though, and requiring almost no thinking.
With old-school pixel-art graphics, classic point & click gameplay, and high production values all around, Shardlight is an ambitious game from the studio behind the Blackwell mysteries, A Golden Wake, and many other acclaimed indie adventures released over the past ten years.
You pretty much always have only 1-5 items in your inventory, and only a few screens at time where to interact with objects, and the ammount of interactive objects is very limited in locations.
Theme by theme
Every theme is scored by what reviewers actually said about it, not just whether they recommended the game.
No themes split opinion in this sample.
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. 2 more themes were each raised by fewer than 6 sampled reviews and are 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 $4.49.
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