Hyper Light Breaker

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Hyper Light Breaker
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Developer(s) Heart Machine
Publisher(s) Arc Games
Director(s) Alx Preston
Composer(s) Troupe Gammage
Joel Corelitz [1]
Engine Unreal Engine 4 [2] [3]
Platform(s) Microsoft Windows
ReleaseJanuary 14, 2025 (early access)
Genre(s) Roguelike
Mode(s) Single-player, multiplayer

Hyper Light Breaker is a roguelike video game developed by Heart Machine and published by Arc Games. It serves as the prequel to Hyper Light Drifter (2016). The player controls a "Breaker" who ventures into the Overgrowth to defeat the Abyss King. The game released for early access on January 14, 2025. [4]

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Gameplay

Breaker takes place from a third-person perspective, and the player can mix melee and ranged weapons together. Each "Breaker" can choose a class and abilities that affect gameplay. To traverse the world, Breakers can use hoverboards, gliders and climb walls. Like in other roguelikes, when the player dies, a new world is randomly generated. The game will include multiplayer, with up to three players able to join a world together. To win, the player needs to take down a series of regional bosses in order to fight the Abyss King. Between runs, the player can explore a hub city. [5]

Non-playable characters can be found throughout the world, and the player can converse with them. Like in Hyper Light Drifter , there is no spoken dialogue in the game, instead characters communicate information to the player through comic book panels. [6]

Development

Originally each biome was intended to be a separate level, but due to the amount of work required to expand each, all were consolidated into a single world. [7] Many of the game's systems are built upon those created for the studio's previous title Solar Ash . [8]

Gearbox Publishing San Francisco was originally listed as the publisher prior to its rebrand as Arc Games following Gearbox Software's sale to Take-Two Interactive. [9]

The game's early access release was originally scheduled for late 2023, [10] but following multiple delays, [11] the game finally released in early access on January 14, 2025. [4]

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References

  1. ↑ "Hyper Light Breaker Knowledge Base". Heart Machine.
  2. ↑ Del Rio, Omar (17 March 2023). "First Look At Hyper Light Breaker Gameplay Revealed In New Trailer -". mxdwn Games.
  3. ↑ Ubachs, Jurian (18 June 2024). "Hyper Light Breaker - Roguelike met originele look" [Hyper Light Breaker - Roguelike with original look]. Tweakers (in Dutch).
  4. 1 2 Preston, Alx (12 December 2024). "Early Access Coming January 14". Steam . Retrieved 12 December 2024.
  5. ↑ Valentine, Rebekah (31 March 2023). "Hyper Light Breaker Exclusive First Gameplay Preview: Familiar Colors, New Light". IGN. Retrieved 1 January 2024.
  6. ↑ Schilling, Chris (June 2023). "Built Different". Edge Magazine . No. 384. pp. 54–67.
  7. ↑ The Inside Story of how Hyper Light Breaker Became an Open World Roguelike. YouTube . Noclip. 13 February 2023. Retrieved 1 January 2024.
  8. ↑ Inside the Studio Designing Hyper Light Breaker - Hyper Light Development 01. YouTube . Noclip. August 2022. Retrieved 1 January 2024.
  9. ↑ Rousseau, Jeffrey (9 April 2024). "Gearbox Publishing San Francisco is now Arc Games". Games Industry.biz. Retrieved 10 April 2024.
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