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Hyper Light Drifter free on Epic Store today

By Jonathan Bolding published 27 December 19

news An enchanting, beautiful, hardcore action game.

Hyper Light Drifter and Mutant Year Zero are free on the Epic Games Store

By Fraser Brown published 16 August 19

News It's back to individual games next week, starting with Fez.

Hyper Light Drifter studio reveals its new game, Solar Ash Kingdom

By Andy Chalk published 13 March 19

news The debut trailer teases a beautiful, strange world.

Hyper Light Drifter designer Teddy Dief leaves Square Enix Montreal after studio cancels his next game

By Samuel Horti published 30 January 18

news Returns to indie development full-time.

Independent Games Festival Awards finalists announced

By Andy Chalk published 9 January 17

news Virginia leads the pack.

Listen to the best game music of the year

By James Davenport, PC Gamer published 28 December 16

forte We look back on the abundance of great soundtracks from 2016.

Hyper Light Drifter local co-op beta is now available

By Shaun Prescott published 28 April 16

News Recruit a friend to beat notoriously tough action RPG.

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PC Gamer UK Podcast 004: Hyper Light Drifter, DOOM

By Phil Savage published 4 April 16

This week, pretty pixel punishment, inexplicable numbers and much drilling, allegedly.

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Hyper Light Drifter review

By Andy Kelly published 1 April 16

HARD LIGHT Try, try, and try again.

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Hyper Light Drifter releasing this month

By Angus Morrison published 22 March 16

The new trailer is smooth as ever.

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Hyper Light Drifter is now available for pre-purchase on GOG

By Shaun Prescott published 19 February 16

It's happening.

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Hyper Light Drifter will be out next spring

By Andy Chalk published 25 August 15

There's a new trailer, too.

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Hyper Light Drifter hands-on: Distilling design down to the good meth

By Tim Clark published 4 March 15

Preview …plus Heart Machine on the current confusion surrounding crowd funding.

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Show Us Your Rig: Hyper Light Drifter's Alex Preston

By Tom Marks published 27 January 15

Alex Preston, creator of Hyper Light Drifter at Heart Machine, shows us what he uses to work and play.

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Hyper Light Drifter is a beautiful high-octane brawler

By Andy Kelly published 17 October 14

Hands-on Andy plays Heart Machine's stylish action RPG.

Hyper Light Drifter backers getting three-day "preview build" next weekend

By Tom Sykes published 21 September 14

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The week's highs and lows in PC Gaming

By PCGamer published 21 March 14

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Hands-on with Hyper Light Drifter, plus why Heart Machine now eats "the good dirt"

By PCGamer published 20 March 14

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Hyper Light Drifter trailer offers two minutes of exploration, combat and bad dudes in tubes

By Tom Sykes published 16 March 14

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Hyper Light Drifter closed beta scheduled for June, full game planned for end of the year

By Phil Savage published 3 February 14

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