Hyper Light Drifter - S.E.

995 reviews
Content rating
PEGI 12
10k+
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Content rating
PEGI 12
Moderate violence, Horror
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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.
Explore a mysterious world
Updated on
25 Sept 2025

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Ratings and reviews

956 reviews
Travis Vest
15 October 2026
Sorry to give this such a bad rating, but sad to see the problem I found. This has always been one of my favorite games since it came out and I got it on PC. Decided to grab it on phone because it was on sale, but to my dismay, the touch controls were fairly difficult, then I thought maybe my Xbox controller will work as it does with all other compatible games. No, pressing B closes the game, and has never done that with any other game. Found out it's a developer issue, hope it's fixed one day.
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Jackie Wallace
22 October 2026
This is such a great game. I love the art style alot, and the story, and gameplay is definitely top tier. I got it on sale, but this game is easily worth the full price, and then some. Also I seen reviews talk about controller support issues, but I never ran into any issues in that department.
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B Haskell
25 August 2026
This is a phenomenal game, but unfortunately it seems like it has several bugs that make it almost unplayable. the one that I come across the most is that I'd like to use a gamepad to play it, but whenever I press b the game minimizes. unfortunately, pressing b is kind of important. would be happy to give this game a higher rating if it got a few updates to resolve these kinds of issues.
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What's new

We've just updated Hyper Light Drifter for Android devices.

- Support for controllers has been improved. Now the game supports PS4, Xbox and Android controllers.

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