What's New

Improved compatibility with 120 hz screen refresh rate on the new iPhone and iPad models.

App Description

Finally, Heart Machine's award winning slash-'em-up arrives to iOS in the most polished and refined version yet, the Special Edition.


► Winner of the Audience Award and Excellence in Visual Art awards of the prestigious Independent Games Festival.

► 14 + nominations among the Best Visual Design, Best Audio and Best original Game categories.

► 9/10 Destructoid - A hallmark of excellence. There may be flaws, but they are negligible and won't cause massive damage.

► 9.5/10 Game Informer - The combination of soundtrack, art, and combat creates a rabbit hole worth your full exploration.

► Eurogamer Recommended - Heart Machine's slash-'em-up is punishing and precise - and incredibly beautiful.

► 9/10 GameSpot - It is more than simply pretty; Hyper Light Drifter uses its visuals to both guide and relax you. The grandest vistas calm your pulse between difficult, breathless combat sequences.

► 8.5 Polygon - Hyper Light Drifter deftly mixes contemplative moments with breakneck action.

► 5 Stars Darkstation - The top-down action-RPG Hyper Light Drifter is an amazing game: gorgeous, a fascinating world to explore, tight controls, beautiful music, and the faith in the player for you to figure things out on your own.


Echoes of a dark and violent past resonate throughout a savage land, steeped in treasure and blood. Drifters of this world are the collectors of forgotten knowledge, lost technologies and broken histories. Our Drifter is haunted by an insatiable illness, traveling further into the lands of Buried Time, hoping to discover a way to quiet the vicious disease.

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. Explore a beautiful, vast and ruined world riddled with dangers and lost technologies.


Features:

● 120 fps gameplay on iPad Pro / 60 fps on iPhone and iPad.
● Compatible with MFi controllers.
● Game Center achievements.
● Haptic Vibration.
● From each character to subtle background elements, everything is lovingly hand-animated.
● Easy to pick up, difficult to master; enemies are vicious and numerous, hazards will easily crush your frail body, and friendly faces remain rare.
● Upgrade weapons, learn new skills, discover equipment and traverse a dark, detailed world with branching paths and secrets abound.
● Evocative soundtrack composed by Disasterpeace.
● All the content from the original game + more weapons, enemies and areas from the Special edition.

iPhone Screenshots

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iPad Screenshots

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Apple TV Screenshots

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App Changes

  • June 29, 2019 Initial release
  • July 02, 2019 Price decrease: FREE! -> FREE!
  • July 25, 2019 New version 1.0.1
  • July 25, 2019 Price increase: FREE! -> $4.99
  • August 16, 2019 New version 1.0.2
  • August 16, 2019 Price increase: $4.99 -> $5.99
  • September 22, 2019 Price decrease: $5.99 -> $4.99
  • September 30, 2019 New version 1.0.3
  • November 26, 2019 New version 1.1.1
  • December 14, 2019 New version 1.1.2
  • December 24, 2019 New version 1.1.3
  • March 19, 2020 New version 1.1.4
  • March 19, 2020 Price decrease: $4.99 -> $0.99
  • March 20, 2020 Price increase: $0.99 -> $4.99
  • May 23, 2020 New version 1.1.6
  • July 25, 2020 Price decrease: $4.99 -> $0.99
  • July 26, 2020 Price increase: $0.99 -> $4.99
  • November 30, 2020 Price decrease: $4.99 -> $0.99
  • December 02, 2020 Price increase: $0.99 -> $4.99
  • April 02, 2021 Price decrease: $4.99 -> $0.99
  • May 22, 2021 Price increase: $0.99 -> $4.99
  • January 30, 2022 New version 1.1.7

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