Shardlight is a graphic adventure game, where the player controls a character to explore the environment and interact with people and objects as to solve puzzles.

When in dialogue with another character, a portrait of them appears in the corner of the screen and the player can often decide what the protagonist will say.

Shardlight is set in November in a post-apocalyptic city, 20 years after World War III.

There is no permanent cure for Green Lung, only a temporary vaccine that has to be renewed on a regular basis to be effective and that only the rich can afford.

The city is ruled by Aristocrats, a faceless oligarchy that controls all resources and have unchallenged authority.

She returns to the Ministry of Energy where she receives her lottery ticket from the head of the aristocracy, Tiberius.

Afterwards, she breaks into the storage room and finds it full of vaccine; enough to treat the whole population for years.

Tiberius visits her and reveals that he had put a listening device on her and telling her she failed the loyalty test.

She finds a hidden message and learns that Danton has survived and fled to the reactor base.

However, when she gets to Danton she is told that the lottery is just a farce and that they can track the person with each number; they are using her friend as a bait to get Amy.

She visits Danton and learns that she is itching to launch an attack on Tiberius, but lacks the manpower.

[1] Kyle LeClair from Hardcore Gamer gave 3 out of 5 stars, saying: "A lack of originality and some storytelling flaws hurt it a little, but the end result still has enough visual flair and enjoyable bits of narrative to easily earn a recommendation.