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Hyper Light Drifter

Released: Mar 31, 2016

Series:

Hyper Light

Genres:

Action Role-playing (RPG) Tactical

Themes:

Crafting & Gathering Fantasy Indie Post-apocalyptic Science fiction

Perspectives:

Bird view / Isometric

Game Modes:

Co-operative Multiplayer Single player

Game Engines:

GameMaker: Studio

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Description from Steam STEAM

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.

Description from IGDB IGDB

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 mechanics and designs on a much grander scale.

Storyline IGDB

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.

Wikipedia Description WIKIPEDIA

Hyper Light Drifter is a 2D action role-playing game fashioned after The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past, rendered in a pixel art style. 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 and is suffering from an unspecified illness. The story concept was inspired by lead developer Alx Preston's heart disease, and has been likened by others to Studio Ghibli's Castle in the Sky, while Preston cites the studio's Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind as inspiration for the game's world. The Drifter is equipped with a phase-shifted hard light energy sword and can gain access to other modules that expand their weapon and ability arsenal. These often require power from rare batteries scattered around the world. Weaponry includes long-range guns and area attacks. Rather than scavenging ammunition from the game world to load the player's guns, the player's ammunition instead charges when hitting enemies and objects with the energy sword. The player faces increasingly difficult monsters, both in number and ability, requiring the player to hone their tactics to succeed in the game. Preston's goal was to replicate the experience of playing on the SNES, noting that the unit had "amazing, almost perfect games designed for limited environments" which he challenged himself to simulate in Hyper Light Drifter. One feature of SNES games that Preston captured is that there is no spoken dialogue, placing more emphasis on the game's music and visuals to tell a story.

About Hyper Light Drifter

Hyper Light Drifter is a Action, Role-playing (RPG), Tactical game released in 2016 developed by Heart Machine that offers Co-operative, Multiplayer gameplay from a bird view / isometric perspective playable on Linux, Mac, PC (Microsoft Windows) with 243 user ratings averaging 80.8/100. The game explores themes like Crafting & Gathering, Fantasy, Indie. If you enjoy Hyper Light Drifter, you might also like similar games in our database of 45,000+ titles.

Basic Info

Release Date: March 31, 2016

IGDB Rating: 80.8/100 (243)

Rating Count: 243

IGDB ID: 9806

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Additional Information

IGDB Rating: 80.8/100 (243 votes)

Release Date: March 31, 2016

IGDB ID: 9806

Series: Hyper Light

Платформы 7

Linux

Mac

PC

PS4

Vita

WiiU

XOne

Genres 3

Action Role-playing (RPG) Tactical

Themes 5

Crafting & Gathering Fantasy Indie Post-apocalyptic Science fiction

Player Perspectives 1

Bird view / Isometric

Game Modes 3

Co-operative Multiplayer Single player

Companies

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Developers

Heart Machine

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Publishers

Heart Machine

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Keywords

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