Hyper Light Drifter - S.E.

Abylight Studios

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.

Ratings and reviews

The game translates well to mobile, to the point where I can play even better than console! My only gripe is the game can crash while pausing in-between some action, or when transitioning to another part of the map ( Happened to me twice in the western dungeon area of the map. If this ever gets buffed out, this game will be 5 stars IMHO.) Definitely worth the price of admission.

Ps5 Controller support is limited, and buttons are incorrect l1 l2 dint function. Ps4 controller works flawless, tho. Touch controls are implemented well. Gameplay is phenomenal, one of my all-time favorite indy games ever. I was able to update my dash so far once with no crashes. Well, give 5 stars as this is still playable with touch quite well after a bit of getting used to it even though it's straightforward. It's just a faster game on mobile.

The game is great! All the bugs that I have encountered on launch have been resolved, and I haven't had any issues since. I love the pixel art aesthetic and finding secrets is the best part. The controls are not customizable, but work completely fine for me. Overall, best game I have played on mobile!

What's new

- Fixed an issue that caused unexpected crashes in some android versions, affecting specially the upgrades shop.

Thanks for the support and enjoy the game!