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About Hyper Light Drifter 💨

Steam Tags: Pixel Graphics, Great Soundtrack, Atmospheric, 2D

System: Steam, (PC, Mac, Linux), PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, iOS

Developer | Publisher: Heart Machine

Age Rating: E

Price: US $9.99 (On sale for $4.99 until January 4, 2023)

Release Date: December 2016

Time to Play: 8-10 hours

Steam Description: Explore a beautiful, vast and ruined world riddled with dangers and lost technologies.

You may especially enjoy this if you like:

• challenging combat that encourages patience
• abstract, minimal storytelling
• 8 and 16 bit pixel art homages
• Zelda: A Link to the Past and Diablo — both games are cited as strong inspirations from the developer.

Why Hyper Light Drifter? 💜

• This was a community-selected title! At the end of 2023, we did a ranked vote to determine six of the twelve games we cover this year, and Hyper Light Drifter was one of the six.
• We aim to select shorter games that are generally able to be completed in about 6-8 hours, and while this one can prove to be challenging AND has lots of secrets, if you cruise through it (esp on the easier difficulty setting) you should be able to finish in around 8-10 hours, maybe even a little less.