Hyper Light Drifter
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 16-bit classics, with modernized…
Hyper Light Drifter is an adventure developed by Heart Machine, released 31 March 2016 on PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita, Wii U and Xbox One. The main story takes about 7.8 hrs to finish.
What Hyper Light Drifter is
Hyper Light Drifter is an adventure game developed by Heart Machine and released in 2016. It is available on PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita, Wii U, Xbox One, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on GameMaker: Studio.
The premise, in the publisher's words
The player controls the Drifter, a character that has access to technology that has long been forgotten by the inhabitants of the game's world, but is forced to search through the ruins of civilization to find the cure for a mysterious illness.
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action, fantasy and science fiction. It supports multiplayer. Local play supports 2 players. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer and Single player. There are 23 achievements to unlock.
How it was received
Hyper Light Drifter holds a critic score of 89 out of 100. That places it above 91% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2016 averaged 68, so it scored 21 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 85, across 268 votes.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 7.8 hrs. Completing everything takes closer to 35 hrs, roughly 4.5 times the length of the critical path.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for 1.2 ghz, 4 GB RAM and 512 mb video memory. At 4GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 2GB.
What it launched against
Hyper Light Drifter launched on 31 March 2016, within three weeks of Dark Souls III, Hitman, Ratchet & Clank and Don't Starve Together. It reviewed better than all of them. It arrived 3 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Dark Souls III, Hitman, Ratchet & Clank, Don't Starve Together.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Hyper Light Drifter yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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