“It’s not an easy game to fall in love with, but now it’s a game I love a lot”

Enigmatic and unrelenting, HYPER LIGHT DRIFTER takes patience

I have played close to 20 hours of Hyper Light Drifter and I still can’t tell you what the story is about. Whatever narrative is lurking in this fever-dream action RPG is so obtuse that I’m not even convinced it isn’t just a bunch of really striking images strung together by sparkling synth music. The intro cinematic jumps between statues with glowing eyes, a Neon Genesis Evangelion-esque apocalypse, and giant fleshy corpses. It’s impenetrable yet undeniably captivating – but, my god, it’s taken me a few tries to get into it. Though it was released in 2016, it’s taken me this long to beat Hyper Light Drifter because I kept bouncing off it. I love nearly everything about it – the ambience, aesthetic and combat – but a few hours…

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PC Gamer United Kingdom (Digital) - 1 Issue, April 2021

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