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Shardlight cover art

Shardlight

Wadjet Eye Games · 2016-03-08

SteamGOG

AdventureIndieRPG

Modes: Single player

Releases: Mar 08, 2016 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Mar 08, 2016 (Mac), Mar 08, 2016 (Linux)

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.

1
playing now
90%
positive of 806 reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
50,000–100,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
76/100
critic score (5 outlets, IGDB)
80/100
IGDB user rating (27 ratings)
9h
time to beat (IGDB)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$14.99
steam price (US)

1 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 08:00 UTC (census sample)

Shardlight is an adventure game developed by Francisco Gonzalez and Ben Chandler and published by Wadjet Eye Games for the PC Windows in 2016.

Health check

Insufficient data
  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 33% of 11,362 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 20k–48k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 806 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

GOG$14.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $2.39 at GOG (2018-09-21) · bundled 1×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $14.99 · on sale 19 of 39 observed days · $12.60 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Players online

302026-08-11 20:00 — 1 players2026-08-12 12:00 — 1 players2026-08-13 04:00 — 0 players2026-08-13 19:00 — 0 players2026-08-14 11:00 — 0 players2026-08-15 03:00 — 0 players2026-08-15 19:00 — 2 players2026-08-16 11:00 — 1 players2026-08-17 03:00 — 1 players2026-08-17 19:00 — 2 players2026-08-18 11:00 — 1 players2026-08-19 02:00 — 0 players2026-08-19 18:00 — 0 players2026-08-20 10:00 — 0 players2026-08-21 02:00 — 1 players2026-08-21 17:00 — 1 players2026-08-22 09:00 — 2 players2026-08-23 01:00 — 1 players2026-08-23 17:00 — 0 players2026-08-24 08:00 — 0 players2026-08-25 00:00 — 1 players2026-08-25 16:00 — 0 players2026-08-26 08:00 — 0 players2026-08-27 01:00 — 3 players2026-08-27 17:00 — 0 players2026-08-28 09:00 — 1 players2026-08-29 16:00 — 0 players2026-08-30 08:00 — 1 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$14.99$2.592016-03-012026-08-302016-03-01 — best price $13.492016-07-22 — best price $10.492016-12-12 — best price $14.992017-03-13 — best price $14.992017-06-21 — best price $14.992017-09-21 — best price $14.992017-12-12 — best price $2.992018-05-10 — best price $7.492018-09-17 — best price $2.992019-01-03 — best price $14.992019-06-09 — best price $3.792019-09-23 — best price $5.992020-01-02 — best price $14.992020-02-10 — best price $14.992020-05-11 — best price $4.492020-09-07 — best price $14.992021-02-11 — best price $4.492021-06-24 — best price $4.492021-11-29 — best price $14.992022-02-03 — best price $14.992022-06-23 — best price $4.492022-11-09 — best price $14.992023-01-12 — best price $4.492023-05-01 — best price $4.492023-07-04 — best price $14.992023-11-24 — best price $4.492024-01-15 — best price $4.492024-02-29 — best price $4.492024-05-16 — best price $14.992024-07-31 — best price $4.492024-10-15 — best price $4.492024-11-22 — best price $14.992025-01-18 — best price $14.992025-05-19 — best price $14.992025-08-26 — best price $4.492025-10-08 — best price $14.992025-12-18 — best price $4.492026-03-11 — best price $4.492026-04-24 — best price $14.992026-08-30 — best price $14.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

2002026-05-31 — 14 pageviews2026-06-03 — 7 pageviews2026-06-06 — 7 pageviews2026-06-09 — 13 pageviews2026-06-12 — 6 pageviews2026-06-15 — 3 pageviews2026-06-18 — 8 pageviews2026-06-21 — 8 pageviews2026-06-24 — 5 pageviews2026-06-27 — 5 pageviews2026-06-30 — 14 pageviews2026-07-03 — 18 pageviews2026-07-06 — 13 pageviews2026-07-09 — 13 pageviews2026-07-12 — 13 pageviews2026-07-15 — 10 pageviews2026-07-18 — 6 pageviews2026-07-21 — 15 pageviews2026-07-24 — 6 pageviews2026-07-27 — 6 pageviews2026-07-30 — 4 pageviews2026-08-02 — 1 pageviews2026-08-05 — 6 pageviews2026-08-08 — 15 pageviews2026-08-11 — 2 pageviews2026-08-14 — 5 pageviews2026-08-17 — 10 pageviews2026-08-20 — 8 pageviews2026-08-23 — 12 pageviews2026-08-26 — 9 pageviews2026-08-28 — 4 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

WindowsmacOSLinuxSingle-playerSteam AchievementsSteam Trading CardsCaptions availableSteam CloudCommentary availableFamily Sharing1 DLC

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)1,30219%19

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Player tags

2DIndiePuzzleClassicMysteryAdventureStory RichAtmosphericSingleplayerThird Person

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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Similarity via IGDB.

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