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Play Overview
Hyper Light Drifter (2016) is a fast-action role-play game that combines exploration and puzzles with arcade-style shooting. You play a Drifter who can access technology in a post-technological world. This grants access to upgradable energy weapons to help you in battle, but also requires you to investigate and make sense of the strange world.
You dash through lush woods and crystal lagoons, and you fight poison wolves and old knights with an electric blue sword and a modifiable gun. Rather than scavenging ammunition, you gain bullets by hitting enemies and objects with the energy sword. This, along with the rapid approach of increasingly difficult monsters, makes battles frantic and reaction-based. As you progress you can upgrade weapons, learn new skills, discover equipment and traverse a dark, detailed world with branching paths and secrets abound.
But alongside this brash neon combat threads a story, underscored by orchestral music, about the tragedy of the world's dark and violent past. You discover a land steeped in treasure, blood and dilapidated architecture. You are haunted by an insatiable illness and must travel deep into the lands of Buried Time, hoping to discover a way to quiet the vicious disease.
Our examiner, Andy Robertson, first checked Hyper Light Drifter 4 years ago. It was re-examined by Thom Robertson and updated 12 weeks ago.
You dash through lush woods and crystal lagoons, and you fight poison wolves and old knights with an electric blue sword and a modifiable gun. Rather than scavenging ammunition, you gain bullets by hitting enemies and objects with the energy sword. This, along with the rapid approach of increasingly difficult monsters, makes battles frantic and reaction-based. As you progress you can upgrade weapons, learn new skills, discover equipment and traverse a dark, detailed world with branching paths and secrets abound.
But alongside this brash neon combat threads a story, underscored by orchestral music, about the tragedy of the world's dark and violent past. You discover a land steeped in treasure, blood and dilapidated architecture. You are haunted by an insatiable illness and must travel deep into the lands of Buried Time, hoping to discover a way to quiet the vicious disease.
Our examiner, Andy Robertson, first checked Hyper Light Drifter 4 years ago. It was re-examined by Thom Robertson and updated 12 weeks ago.
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Play Time: This game will take between 8 and a half hours and 14 and a half hours to complete. Although, to see all the extras, areas and items in the game can take up to 30 hours.
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Game Details
Release Date: 31/03/2016, updated in 2019
Out Now: Android, Apple TV, Mac, PC, PS4, Switch, Xbox One and iOS
Players: 1-2
Genres: Role-Play, Traversal (Action, Adventure, Collecting, Fighting and Shooting)
Accessibility: 11 features
Components: 2D Overhead and Pixels
Developer: Heart Machine Z (@HeartMachineZ)
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