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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 |
Release | January 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]
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 supports 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]
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]