Hyper Light Breaker (Heart Machine)
We’ve seen this one before, but not quite like this. The follow-up to top-down pixel art action game Hyper Light Drifter looked much more moody and melancholy this time around. Director Alx Preston struck a similar note in his description of the open-world roguelite, calling it “vivid but bleak” and “brutal but beautiful.” The Gearbox-published third-person action game can be played alone or with friends, and features a world that’s procedurally generated in some places and handcrafted in others, with shades of Dead Cells, Hades, and other arcade roguelikes in its build-crafting and persistent unlocks between runs.
Platform: PC (consoles TBA)
Release date: Early Access 2023
