Hyper Light Breaker Steam Charts & Stats

Wow, what a beautiful game they're cooking up! It approaches the roguelike genre in a way I haven't seen before, it's pleasantly difficult, it has extremely fluid movement, and - I don't see a lot of people talk about this - it's very atmospheric due to being visually and audially magical. A lot of people say it should be bought later when more content is released; I say buy it now, have a blast, and then smile at the fact that you can now jump in once every few months only to see the game get better and better.

They made every aspect of the this game worse to appeal to general rouge lite fans The Bad -Extracting in an extraction game has no risk to it anymore -You can't stache extra equipment for use on other characters anymore or if you lose already equipped item -Removed functionality of bright blood outside of the overgrowth -Added 1 med kit as a base ability but removed executions from the base move kit and added it to the skill tree -Skill tree percs still suck for the most part -Merchants outside the overgrowth don't sell items anymore, now their only function is to upgrade equipment -Merchants need 1 golden ration to access the ability to upgrade equipment for each merchant -Merchants still require 12 mechanical parts to open up -Shell progression ruined by not being permanent anymore, only lasting for that current cycle -XP toward golden rations are only rewarded at the end of each cycle making extraction feel even worse and the progression of the skill tree just as slow as before The Good -You don't have to go a full cycle without a med kit -More equipment, bosses, and affixes -More holobytes slots -Better performance -Reworked World Tier system?

When I first played Hyper Light Drifter years ago it hooked me in immediately. Its art design and music were like nothing I'd ever seen or heard, its story is strange and cryptic but gives you just enough to keep you interested as you try to fill in the blanks in your head. Its world is wholly unique and full of mysteries to uncover. Combat is challenging, yet polished and fair- I beat the game for the first time using a laptop mouse pad, but every mechanic was so well designed that I barely felt that friction by the end. I've played games that I like better in the years since, but HLD has remained in my memory as something that has never and probably will never be replicated. I played Hyper Light Breaker for 20 minutes and spent the whole time feeling bored and vaguely sad. I wandered aimlessly through an open field, fought some goblin things and what I think was one of the giant golem enemies from HLD (now completely trivialized as they only move slightly faster than a dead snail), and wandered around in a couple empty buildings before giving up. I'm not sure what Heart Machine is cooking with this one, but right now you're better off playing Hyper Light Drifter or Solar Ash. I know these guys can make great things and I hope Breaker comes back and proves me wrong, but right now I just don't see the vision.

The start is not "intuitive" which is one of the reasons why I liked it, you have to figure it out, once you do its a good early-access version that's apparently getting constant updates. Having no struggle with controls except for parry (bit inconsistent). Loved Drifter which was a pretty random story, I feel this keeps the vibe.

So for a Early Access Indie Rouge like I'm in love with this game. I know I may be 6 months late to trying it, but this game is phenomenal. I wanted to wait to write a review until I "beat" the game having thus done that here are my pointers. Get ready its a lot and if i forget something I'll and it on later. The Breakers are all unique I love how there are male and female versions all with their own kit. Only downside I have with that is Ravona has a bird like mask and Rondo looks more like Nindus from Warframe. Don't mean it in a bad way i just want my bird mask. I thought Ravona was male due to some voice line grunts from heavy melee sounds masculine. Not a bad thing just want to clarify. Leveling up your Breaker and "yourself" through the Breaker Caption is really nice. I think everything is reasonably priced with the materials you need. The Holobytes you can choose from from leveling up is also very nice. I have gotten a few bad rolls, but I feel its still balanced enough for the player to make a broken build. The RNG is always nice you just have to figure out how you want to build your Breaker near the beginning of the cycle. The melee and guns are really nice I tend to lean more for melee builds especially when I'm running Ravona's Berserker's Exoskeleton AMP. If i pair that with the Hunter's Mark Holobyte and a Hack gun its really nice. Of course most of the damage comes from the sub stats of your weapons and AMPs. My Personal favorites of each are the Dual Claws and the Diamond Lance. (Might be the wrongs names I have a bad memory) The way the Overgrowth is different each cycle with the map and Crown Bosses is nice. The map terrain is what changes the most keeping the building the same. Makes it nice with getting used to the parkour mechanics. I can't wait to go to the floating island and to have different cycle regions with bosses. A quick note on one of the bosses the one with two people in the icon. When me and my friend went to fight them there was no cut scene and it just threw us into the fight. It was the Wolf boss and he was glowing in a way and when he defeated him I was excepting to fight the 4 Prism Crown Boss since we fought the Wolf who was the 2 Prism one. Sadly the boss was over, But I think that would be a great mechanic for that boss since there are two peeps in the icon. All of the bosses and "Mini bosses" are very fun to fight. The one that sprays mines all the time not so much, but its a nice challenge. Now exploring wise not that bad I like how the glider and hoverboard have different stamina bars with their own Cool down/Depletion. There are a few bugs with the wall dash being... -You dash randomly to the side when you are trying to go up. -On some hills when you wall dash up you kinda "clip" the corner and "free fall." Some I noticed with the Hoverboard are... -When you yeet yourself off a cliff on the Hoverboard and you land in the water sometimes you clip under the water and then the game goes "You are under water big no, no u die now." -When you are on the water and you can make it onto some land. The land itself is a bit over the water so the Hoverboard will sometimes hit the land and then disappears thus drowning you. I like how the Outpost looks especially after you "complete" the Early Access the outpost gets a fiery atmosphere. The Vendors are all cool. My favorite would be Skeksis I gave him the nickname Chancellor after my favorite one(iykyk) One downside to the outpost is. Why is there noting cool with the soccer field. At least add a soccer ball for my ADD ass brain or make it into a duel arena with your friends. The Breaker Captain's design is also really cool that feather...icing on the cake playable when? A real quick note would be that when we extract from the overgrowth we got a nice animation, but for going to the overgrowth we just stand there. If we could get a Megaman type animation that would be sweet. Thanks for coming to my Ted Talk -Birbblez

Revisited this game since its initial EA Launch. It's at a point now where I'd recommend it. Rogue-lite soulsish title that is stylized and great for quick sessions. I think the initial reviews of "negative" were warranted, now you're starting to see something lovely shape up.

I would only recommend this game as it is if you are a big fan of Heart Machine and want to support them, otherwise, in it's current state it doesn't really have anything going for it compared to other roguelikes. Its not as if the gameplay itself is bad, it's at least above average (imo) but it isn't complex enough to really keep you engaged through a whole run. One of the biggest detractors is the lack of variety in the entire game, you can pretty much see everything the game has to offer in your first run. The environment isn't even completely random, you can and will notice repeat world layouts. There's only a real handful of enemies and a portion of them are just harder versions/reskins. The holobytes, skill tree, the passives and modifiers all feel as if the devs don't actually want you to scale like other roguelikes in fear of just making the game trivial (which ironically makes it trivial in and of itself). A majority of them are just stat bonuses or the classic "+x% increase" and the actual interesting ones are few and far between. Sadly I had a lot of faith in this game originally and while im still optimistic on where it could go in the future, as it is right now, it doesn't offer enough to warrant such an insane asking price of 30 bucks.

I didn't want to believe the bad news because I've been waiting for this game for ages. It looks beautiful but the gameplay is just really average in its current state. All the systems seem unbalanced, the combat isn't that fun, and there isn't a compelling narrative as to why your doing anything. I hope they manage to turn things around, but in my heart I'm just waiting for hyper light drifter 2!

The game has improved massively during its early access and many systems now make more sense and feel far better to play with. I'm very much looking forward to where this game goes.

It's very similar to Witchfire in setup, but lacks the excitement in enemy design, encounter design, world design, weapon design, ability design...etc. It just feels very meh. The world is sparsely populated, repetitive and bland. Combat is serviceable but not standout in any area. Nothing gets the adrenaline going in this aside from I guess the threat of dying? I will keep an eye on this one, but for now, I'm disappointed with what's on offer (i remain excited by the premise and potential though).