''Hyper Light Breaker'' is an upcoming

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developed by

Heart Machine Heart Machine is an American independent video game development studio founded by Alx Preston. The studio is best known for developing ''Hyper Light Drifter'' (2016) and ''Solar Ash'' (2021). History The studio was founded by Preston in 2013 to ...

and published by Arc Games. It is the successor to ''

Hyper Light Drifter ''Hyper Light Drifter'' is a 2D action role-playing game developed by Heart Machine. The game pays homage to 8-bit and 16-bit games, and is considered by its lead developer Alx Preston as a combination of '' The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past ...

'' (2016). The player controls a "Breaker" who ventures into the Overgrowth to defeat the Abyss King. The game is planned for a Summer 2024 release.

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

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. 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. Non-playable characters can be found throughout the world, and the player can converse with them. Like in ''

'', there is no spoken dialogue in the game, instead characters communicate information to the player through comic book panels.

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. Many of the game's systems are built upon those created for the studio's previous title ''

Solar Ash ''Solar Ash'' is a science fiction adventure platforming game developed by Heart Machine and published by Annapurna Interactive. It was released on December 2, 2021 for PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5 and Windows. It is also scheduled to release ...

''. Initially intended to be released in

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in late 2023, it was delayed to 2024. The game was going to be published by Gearbox Publishing San Francisco, which will be rebranded as Arc Games following

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's sale to

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. On March 29 it was once again announced to have been delayed, with a new release window of mid 2024.

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