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Hyper Light Drifter follow-up Hyper Light Breaker announcedThis time, it’s looking all 3D and fancy
This time, it’s looking all 3D and fancy
Steel yourself for more stylish exploration and violence next year withHyper Light Breaker, a follow-up (but not a sequel) to 2016’sHyper Light Drifter. The “action rogue-lite adventure” will explore a new land in the same world, and this time in fancy 3D-o-vision. Plus, online co-op! Check out the announcement trailer below.
Hyper Light Breaker - Reveal TrailerWatch on YouTube
Hyper Light Breaker - Reveal Trailer
Hyper Light Breaker will invite us to the land ofOvergrowthto explore (with the help of tools including a wall-dash, hoverboard, and glider), bash baddies, and batter bosses. Across runs we’ll unlock weapons and items, and help build up a settlement in a very pretty overgrown city. I am strongly into overgrown cities.
All I need to know is: hoverboard.
The devs plan to take Breaker through early access, and are looking at a “community-focused development process” with blog posts, streams, events, and things. They were very chatty with Drifter, which went through Kickstarter, but less so with their latest game, December 2021’s Solar Ash.
“With Solar Ash we were trying something new; working with a publisher for the first time, transitioning from 2D to 3D, and mostly working in a vacuum,” Heart Machine explained. “In the end, we released a project we’re incredibly proud of, but the process deviated heavily from how we did things with Hyper Light Drifter, and ultimately, how we want to do things in the future.”
Hyper Light Breaker is due to enter early accesson Steamin 2023. This time, Gearbox Publishing are, well, publishing. For now, you can follow development onHeart Machine’s blog.
