Hyper Light Breaker

Hyper Light Breaker is an early access roguelite that currently feels hyper light on content and the wrong kind of broken.

Hyper Light Breaker is a disappointing 3D action roguelike, with awkward combat and little of Hyper Light Drifter's atmosphere or storytelling chops.

Hyper Light Breaker is hard to recommend as is because of its ridiculously high difficulty barrier, but Early Access offers a glimmer of hope.

From top-down action to roguelite open-world, we're studying a serious gameplay shift in our Hyper Light Breaker Early Access Review

It’s not all bad by any means; the combat has a lot of shine to it when it works, and the different weapons and build options all offer some nice changes. However, the reliance on ranged weapons in a game that makes them feel incredibly limited is perplexing. It just isn’t where it needs to be right now. I have faith that Hyper Light Breaker will evolve into a game that’s a huge amount of fun to p...

Hyper Light Breaker is ambitious. It’s the first time Heart Machine is creating a multiplayer game and their unique approach to the rogue-lite genre is worth tracking. However, if they waited a little longer, and added more content, this early access launch would not have been so rough.

Hyper Light Breaker is a nice blend of fast-paced action and intriguing gameplay concepts. Its wide range of build options and brutal enemies, along with great graphics, keep things interesting.

A suture of bullet-riddled combat mostly taken from other games, but the abilities and poise borrowed offers nothing for the player to wrap their teeth around, it is that same old staid combo of slash-slash-parry, once novel freedoms of movement like a frame instant dash that leaves a cloud of smoke are there to only cover ground in the massive battles the game throws at you, five foot bursts at a...

Switching from 2D adventure to 3D loot-based shooter/slasher has changed the feel of the Hyper Light world significantly, and not – so far – for the better. An overly complex gameplay loop, punishing difficulty, shaky performance, and repetitive moment-to-moment gameplay means this is currently way short of the best the genre has to offer, especially when played solo. The foundations are here for ...