Hyper Light Drifter - S.E. v1.1.99
Abylight Studios
About this app
Developer Description
Explore a mysterious world
► 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.
What's New
- Support for controllers has been improved. Now the game supports PS4, Xbox and Android controllers.
Thanks for your support!
Version Information
- Version
- 1.1.99
- Downloads
- 10K+
- Updated on
- Sep 25, 2025
- Released
- May 6, 2024
- Requires
- Android 5.0
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Hyper Light Drifter - S.E. - Google Play Rankings
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#27 in Top Paid Action in United States
#9 in Top Paid Action in Argentina
#13 in Top Paid Action in Indonesia
#14 in Top Paid Action in Canada
Hyper Light Drifter - S.E. users say on Google Play
ZeroYuri Vermillion X
After the recent update the game now recognizes the Backbone as a controller,I can't say the same about the Razer Kishi since I don't have it anymore,the game still has controller support with PS4 and Xbox controllers,nice job guys and thanks for adding Backbone recognition as a controller,great game,give this one a try,you won't regret it,WORTH.EVERY.PENNY...
Mark Menegatti ᴏsᴀ
Update fixed controller issues, works good and looking forward to playing more. Great pixel art, and it feels like great games in the past, while also feeling fresh.
Danny M
the game itself is utterly breathtaking.. HOWEVER: playing with a ps5 controller is buggy, the buttons dont correspond to the buttons displayed on screen, circle is X for example and triangle is square, not a single button is correct and no options to remap, i mean its just about playable but highly confusing at times, especially in the shops... please fix, ill update to 5 stars if and when.
Haythem Messaoui
The game is amazing, but the lack of support from the dev who is refusing to add controller support is stopping a lot of players from enjoying it. I contacted them by email to request adding at least D-input support and they just refused. Very bad customer support.
Josh Crow
I bought this in March 2025 thinking it'd have full controller support. Im playing on a Logitech G-cloud handheld and can only use touchscreen... unfortunately I don't want to even play it that way, so I can't review the game itself. I hear it's good, but I feel a bit robbed...
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