Hyper Light Drifter: Special Edition
The wait is over, the worldwide acclaimed game Hyper Light Drifter is finally here with this impressive Special Edition! Runs at 60fps, includes new exclusive content and all the previously released remastered…
Hyper Light Drifter: Special Edition is an adventure developed by Heart Machine, released 6 September 2018 on Nintendo Switch, Android and iOS.
What Hyper Light Drifter: Special Edition is
Hyper Light Drifter: Special Edition is an adventure game developed by Heart Machine and released in 2018. It was published by Abylight Studios. It is available on Nintendo Switch, Android and iOS. It runs on GameMaker.
The premise, in the publisher's words
The wait is over, the worldwide acclaimed game Hyper Light Drifter is finally here with this impressive Special Edition! Runs at 60fps, includes new exclusive content and all the previously released remastered for a perfectly inmersive gaming experience to play anywhere. Explore a beautiful, vast and ruined world riddled with dangers and lost technologies. Echoes of a dark and violent past resonate throughout a savage land, steeped in treasure and blood. Hyper Light Drifter is an action adventure RPG in the vein of the best 16bit classics, with modernized mechanics and designs on a much grander scale.
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action. It supports multiplayer for up to 1 players online, and includes co-op. Local play supports 2 players. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.
How it was received
Hyper Light Drifter: Special Edition holds a critic score of 80 out of 100. That places it above 64% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2018 averaged 69, so it scored 11 points above the year average.
What it launched against
Hyper Light Drifter: Special Edition launched on 6 September 2018, within three weeks of Marvel's Spider-Man, Marvel's Spider-Man, Shadow of the Tomb Raider and Divinity: Original Sin 2 - Definitive Edition. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 1 year into the Nintendo Switch's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Marvel's Spider-Man, Marvel's Spider-Man, Shadow of the Tomb Raider, Divinity: Original Sin 2 - Definitive Edition.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Hyper Light Drifter: Special Edition yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
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