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The infectious commitment to life.



<span class="bold">Shardlight</span>, the post-apocalyptic adventure of a young woman desperately looking to cure herself, is now available, DRM-free on GOG.com with a 10% launch discount.

Amy was five when the bombs dropped. This broken, severely oppressed, and hopelessly depressed world is all she knows. Now, twenty years after the catastrophe, people are still dying in the streets stricken by poverty and disease, while the corrupt aristocrats control the regulation of the cure in exchange for cheap labor and obedience.

Amy is sick herself but she is not about to go out with a whimper. She'd rather rattle the shaky foundations of a government that has people like her slaving away for a chance at a vaccination. All around her, among the ruins of what humanity once was, people are scavenging for scraps of a better tomorrow that seems to keep moving further and further out of reach. But not Amy. She is determined to fight for her life, even if she has to pay the ultimate price.



Point'n'click at the bowels of a terminally ill world and find a cure to your ailment in <span class="bold">Shardlight</span>, DRM-free on GOG.com. If you have the bonus fevers, go ahead and grab <span class="bold">Shardlight - Special Edition</span>, which includes the game's OST, voice-over outtakes, a concept art gallery, wallpapers, and other delicious goodies, or opt to <span class="bold">upgrade</span> later. The 10% launch discount will last until March 15, 4:59 PM GMT.
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Random Ben Chandler fanboy comment incoming: anyone who appreciated the unassuming bleakness of PISS should totally go ahead and try Shardlight.

Actually scratch that: anyone who loves narrative-driven adventure games should try Shardlight. I'm quite taken with it. Yep, I said it, I meant it, I'm here to represent it.


And I think I'm in love with Amy's voice too.
Wow, PISS still looks great to me but when you compare those screenshots to his recent work, it's impressive to see how far Chandler has come.

Regarding "narrative-driven" adventures, well, by my personal definition, that does not in fact include all games of the genre.

Even if we exclude puzzle-adventures of the Myst/Cryo variety, there are still a lot of "traditional" point'n'clicks where the main pull is usually not the story/setting (like in Shardlight). I mean, you don't play Leisure Suit Larry for the story, right?

Exactly, you play them for the jokes.
Post edited March 11, 2016 by maladr0Id