About
On Steam, 93% of 15,660 player reviews are positive (Very Positive). 28 people are playing it on Steam right now, with a peak of 67 in the last 30 days. It is Verified on Steam Deck. It won the iPad Game of the Year.
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.
Story
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.
What is happening now
Hyper Light Drifter is an action RPG that blends fast-paced combat with exploration across a stylized sci-fi world. The game combines shooting, hacking, and traversal mechanics with a minimalist narrative approach, having found success across multiple platforms since its 2016 release. Heart Machine, the studio behind Hyper Light Drifter, recently faced significant challenges when a publisher pulled funding from an unannounced project in development. The situation has put the studio in a difficult financial position, raising questions about the team's ability to continue operations and what future projects might be affected by the funding loss.
From the people behind Hyper Light Drifter
shared cast and crew
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Cast and crew
1 creditsCrew
Awards
1 won, 3 more nominationsMedia
Releases
First release date; per-platform dates are not in the database for this game yet.
PC and Steam Deck
Steam store pageSteam Deck: Verified works great out of the box
Requirements and Deck status as listed on Steam, checked Oct 28, 2026.
Hyper Light Drifter player count
concurrent players on SteamPlayers counted on Steam every one to six hours; the daily peak is the highest count of the day.
Hyper Light Drifter achievements
23 achievements on SteamRarest
All 23 achievements by how many players unlocked them
Share of Steam players who unlocked each achievement.