Shardlight

Shardlight

Developers
	Wadjet Eye Games
Engines
	Adventure Game Studio
Release dates
Windows	March 8, 2016
macOS (OS X)	February 9, 2022
Linux	February 9, 2022
Reception
Metacritic	75
OpenCritic	73
IGDB	76
Taxonomy
Modes	Singleplayer
Pacing	Relaxed
Perspectives	Flip screen, Side view
Controls	Point and select
Genres	Adventure
Art styles	Pixel art
Themes	Post-apocalyptic

Shardlight is a singleplayer flip screen and side view adventure game.

General information

GOG.com Community Discussions

GOG.com Support Page

Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
GOG.com		Special Edition also available.
Humble Store
Steam

Demo

A demo is available on the Official site and Steam.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System	Location
Windows	%USERPROFILE%\Saved Games\Shardlight\acsetup.cfg
macOS (OS X)
Linux	$XDG_DATA_HOME/ags/Shardlight/

This game follows the XDG Base Directory Specification on Linux.

Save game data location

System	Location
Windows	%USERPROFILE%\Saved Games\Shardlight\
macOS (OS X)
Linux	$XDG_DATA_HOME/ags/Shardlight/

Save game cloud syncing

System	Native	Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

ScummVM 2.1+ supports cloud saves on third-party cloud storage services. See the ScummVM documentation for details.

Video

Graphics options accessed through <path-to-game>\winsetup.exe.

In-game settings

Graphics feature	State	Notes
Widescreen resolution		320x200 (16:10) static aspect, stretched, or pixel-perfect. Scaling algorithm is either nearest-neighbor or bilinear.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD		Resolution can be set, but will have black borders (Stretch, preserving aspect ratio setting), or be stretched (Fill whole screen setting).
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed		Set with winsetup.exe.
Borderless fullscreen windowed		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Vertical sync (Vsync)
60 FPS and 120+ FPS		Frame rate is locked to 45 FPS.
High dynamic range display (HDR)		See the glossary page for potential alternatives.

Input

Keyboard and mouse	State	Notes
Remapping		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support

Controller types

Audio

Audio feature	State	Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English
Russian				Fan translation by «Prometheus Project»
Spanish				Fan translation, download.

Other information

API

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
Direct3D	9
DirectDraw		Labeled Software renderer in the external setup utility.
OpenGL

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux

System requirements

Windows

macOS (OS X)

Linux

Windows
	Minimum
Operating system (OS)	ME
Processor (CPU)	Intel Pentium 700 MHz
System memory (RAM)	64 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	2 GB
Video card (GPU)	DirectX 5.2 compatible
Sound (audio device)	DirectX compatible
Other	640x400 resolution, 32-bit color

macOS (OS X)
	Minimum
Operating system (OS)	10.11
Processor (CPU)	1.8 GHz
System memory (RAM)
Hard disk drive (HDD)
Other	640x360 resolution

A 64-bit operating system is required.

Linux
	Minimum
Operating system (OS)	Ubuntu, Debian
Processor (CPU)	2.7 GHz Dual Core
System memory (RAM)
Hard disk drive (HDD)
Video card (GPU)	OpenGL compatible
Sound (audio device)	ALSA/PulseAudio/DSP compatible

A 64-bit operating system is required.