Hyper Light Drifter - S.E.

4.0
355 reviews
5K+
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Content rating
PEGI 12
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About this game

Finally, the console award winning slash-'em-up arrives to Android in the most polished and refined version yet, the Special Edition.

► Winner of the Audience Award and Excellence in Visual Art awards of the prestigious Independent Games Festival.

► 14 + nominations among the Best Visual Design, Best Audio and Best original Game categories.

► 9/10 Destructoid - A hallmark of excellence. There may be flaws, but they are negligible and won't cause massive damage.

► 9.5/10 Game Informer - The combination of soundtrack, art, and combat creates a rabbit hole worth your full exploration.

► Eurogamer Recommended - Heart Machine's slash-'em-up is punishing and precise - and incredibly beautiful.

► 9/10 GameSpot - It is more than simply pretty; Hyper Light Drifter uses its visuals to both guide and relax you. The grandest vistas calm your pulse between difficult, breathless combat sequences.

► 8.5 Polygon - Hyper Light Drifter deftly mixes contemplative moments with breakneck action.

► 5 Stars Darkstation - The top-down action-RPG Hyper Light Drifter is an amazing game: gorgeous, a fascinating world to explore, tight controls, beautiful music, and the faith in the player for you to figure things out on your own.

Echoes of a dark and violent past resonate throughout a savage land, steeped in treasure and blood. Drifters of this world are the collectors of forgotten knowledge, lost technologies and broken histories. Our Drifter is haunted by an insatiable illness, traveling further into the lands of Buried Time, hoping to discover a way to quiet the vicious disease.

Hyper Light Drifter is an action adventure RPG in the vein of the best 16-bit classics, with modernized mechanics and designs on a much grander scale. Explore a beautiful, vast and ruined world riddled with dangers and lost technologies.

Features:

● Achievements.
● Haptic Vibration.
● From each character to subtle background elements, everything is lovingly hand-animated.
● Easy to pick up, difficult to master; enemies are vicious and numerous, hazards will easily crush your frail body, and friendly faces remain rare.
● Upgrade weapons, learn new skills, discover equipment and traverse a dark, detailed world with branching paths and secrets abound.
● Evocative soundtrack composed by Disasterpeace.
● All the content from the original game + more weapons, enemies and areas from the Special edition.
Updated on
Oct 30, 2024

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Ratings and reviews

4.0
350 reviews
ZeroYuri Vermillion X
April 25, 2025
I just bearly noticed that this game is on mobile,a great game truly,the touchscreen controls are so far okay,sadly I have 1 bad news and 1 good news: 1: The game does indeed have controller support,BUT,it won't work with Razer nor Backbone game pads,you don't even have the option to remap the buttons,trust me I've checked dozens of times and nothing came up.. 2:the game does have controller support with PS4 controllers,I know because I have one and it worked,haven't tried with Xbox controllers.
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TheSpyHat
April 16, 2025
Visually evocative and inspiring. My total game time is about 13 hours, main and alt character. There's more to do like NG+ but it didn't interest me enough to play a third time. Overall, my only gripe with the game is lack of touch control editing, but it's not a major issue as the controls are more or less intuitive after a while.
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Danny M
February 26, 2025
the game itself is utterly breathtaking.. HOWEVER: playing with a ps5 controller is buggy, the buttons dont correspond to the buttons displayed on screen, circle is X for example and triangle is square, not a single button is correct and no options to remap, i mean its just about playable but highly confusing at times, especially in the shops... please fix, ill update to 5 stars if and when.
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What’s new

- Added Boss Rush mode.
- General bug fixes and improvements.