Hyper Light Drifter is finally getting a spiritual follow-up, and it looks ridiculously sick.
On Thursday, Heart Machine announced Hyper Light Breaker, an action RPG that builds on what made Hyper Light Drifter an indie classic. However, unlike that game, Hyper Light Breaker shifts to a 3D perspective, and there’s an emphasis on co-op. In an interview with IGN, creative director Alx Preston explains that Hyper Light Breaker’s online co-op is more intricate than you might expect.
“When we say online cooperative play, we mean multiple players, not just you and another person,” Preston said. “We’re looking at a group of players that can go out and kill some monsters together.”
Check out Hyper Light Breaker’s beautiful reveal trailer for yourself below.
Announcing❣️: Hyper Light Breaker
This new 3D co-op adventure set in the Hyper Light universe is coming to Steam Early Access in Spring 2023. Explore the world of Hyper Light in 3D via single-player or online co-op with friends.
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Hyper Light Breaker will launch on Steam Early Access in 2023, so it’s a long way off still. Machine Heart wanted to be transparent about the game’s development and let its community in on this exciting new project.
“We want to get Breaker out there. We want to start talking openly about development, about the process, doing live streams and all sorts of fun stuff like that,” Preston continues. “Because I think on Drifter, after the Kickstarter, we ended up doing something similar on a smaller scale, where we can engage on a regular basis with that particular community.”
Despite being in the same universe, Hyper Light Breaker isn’t a direct sequel, so playing through Hyper Light Drifter isn’t mandatory.
Written by Kyle Campbell on behalf of GLHF.
