Hyper Light Drifter

Explore a beautiful, vast and ruined world riddled with dangers and lost technologies.

81/100

Released

March 30, 2016

Developer

Heart Machine

Publisher

Heart Machine

Age Rating

Co-op Features

Linux

Local Co-op

2 players max

Campaign Co-op

Drop-in/Drop-out

About

Developed by Heart Machine, Hyper Light Drifter is an Adventure, Hack And Slash/Beat 'Em Up, Indie, Role-Playing (Rpg), and Shooter game that came out in 2016 for Linux.

You can play together using Local co-op (up to 2 players), Campaign co-op, and Drop-in/Drop-out.

Description

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.

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.

• 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.

Story

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.