Hyper Light Drifter Downloads & RevenueHyper Light Drifter · App Store & Google Play
Hyper Light Drifter by Fictions is on App Store and Google Play. Active Users (MAU & DAU), Downloads, rankings, keywords, revenue, and rating totals.
Hyper Light Drifter update history & changes
Last change · 49 events since 25 Jul 2019Full timeline ↓🌟iOSFeatured by Apple🌟iOSFeatured by Apple📈iOSEntered the top 100📈AndroidDropped out of every chart we track📈iOSEntered the top 10💰AndroidPrice rise📈AndroidEntered the top 10⭐iOSPassed 10K ratings💰AndroidPrice drop⭐iOSPassed 10K ratings🆕AndroidFirst spotted by AppInsider🆕iOSFirst spotted by AppInsider🆕AndroidReleased on Google Play🆕iOSReleased on the App Store
Full timeline · 47 events in the last 12 months
- 🌟Hyper Light Drifter featured by AppleiOSgames · AE, AR, AU, BR, CO, DE, ES, FR, GB, ID, IN, IT, JP, MX, MY, NL, PH, PL, RU, SA, SE, TH, TR, TW, VN, ZA
- 🌟Hyper Light Drifter featured by AppleiOSgames · AE, AR, AU, BR, CO, DE, ES, FR, GB, ID, IN, IT, JP, MX, MY, NL, PH, PL, RU, SA, SE, TH, TR, TW, VN, ZA
- 🌟Hyper Light Drifter featured by AppleiOSgames · AE, AR, AU, BR, CO, DE, ES, FR, GB, ID, IN, IT, JP, MX, MY, NL, PH, PL, RU, SA, SE, TH, TR, TW, VN, ZA
- 📈Hyper Light Drifter entered the top 100iOSTop Paid · All Apps · TW
- 🌟Hyper Light Drifter featured by AppleiOSgames · AE, AR, AU, BR, CO, DE, ES, FR, GB, ID, IN, IT, JP, MX, MY, NL, PH, PL, RU, SA, SE, TH, TR, TW, VN, ZA
- 🌟Hyper Light Drifter featured by AppleiOSgames · AE, AR, AU, BR, CO, DE, ES, FR, GB, ID, IN, IT, JP, MX, MY, NL, PH, PL, RU, SA, SE, TH, TR, TW, VN, ZA
- 📈Hyper Light Drifter dropped out of every chart we trackAndroidLast seen 2 Nov
- 🌟Hyper Light Drifter featured by AppleiOSgames · AE, AR, AU, BR, CO, DE, ES, FR, GB, ID, IN, IT, JP, MX, MY, NL, PH, PL, RU, SA, SE, TH, TR, TW, VN, ZA
- 🌟Hyper Light Drifter featured by AppleiOSgames · AE, AR, AU, BR, CO, DE, ES, FR, GB, ID, IN, IT, JP, MX, MY, NL, PH, PL, RU, SA, SE, TH, TR, TW, VN, ZA
- 🌟Hyper Light Drifter featured by AppleiOSgames · AE, AR, AU, BR, CO, DE, ES, FR, GB, ID, IN, IT, JP, MX, MY, NL, PH, PL, RU, SA, SE, TH, TR, TW, VN, ZA
- 🌟Hyper Light Drifter featured by AppleiOSgames · AE, AR, AU, BR, CO, DE, ES, FR, GB, ID, IN, IT, JP, MX, MY, NL, PH, PL, RU, SA, SE, TH, TR, TW, VN, ZA
- 📈Hyper Light Drifter entered the top 10iOSTop Paid · Adventure · AE
- 💰Hyper Light Drifter: price riseAndroid1.81 USD → 5.49 USD · US
- 📈Hyper Light Drifter entered the top 10AndroidTop Paid · Action · VN
- 📈Hyper Light Drifter entered the top 100 in 2 chartsAndroidTop Paid · All Games · TH · Top Paid · All Games · US
- 📈Hyper Light Drifter entered the top 10AndroidTop Paid · Action · BR
- 📈Hyper Light Drifter entered the top 100 in 4 chartsAndroidTop Paid · All Games · AE · Top Paid · All Games · MX · Top Paid · All Games · SA · Top Paid · Action · US
- 📈Hyper Light Drifter charting in a new countryAndroidUnited States
- 📈Hyper Light Drifter entered the top 100 in 3 chartsAndroidTop Paid · All Games · BR · Top Grossing · Action · ID · Top Paid · All Games · VN
- 📈Hyper Light Drifter entered the top 100 in 2 chartsAndroidTop Paid · All Games · NL · Top Paid · Action · VN
- 📈Hyper Light Drifter entered the top 100 in 2 chartsiOSTop Paid · All Apps · MY · Top Paid · Games · MY
- 📈Hyper Light Drifter charting in a new country in 5 chartsAndroidMexico · Netherlands · Thailand · Turkey · +1 more
- 📈Hyper Light Drifter entered the top 100 in 4 chartsAndroidTop Paid · Action · MX · Top Paid · Action · NL · Top Paid · Action · TH · Top Paid · Action · TR
- 📈Hyper Light Drifter entered the top 100iOSTop Paid · All Apps · VN
- 💰Hyper Light Drifter: price dropAndroid5.49 USD → 1.81 USD · US
- 📈Hyper Light Drifter charting in a new country in 2 chartsAndroidBrazil · Saudi Arabia
- 📈Hyper Light Drifter entered the top 100AndroidTop Paid · Action · SA
- 📈Hyper Light Drifter entered the top 100 in 2 chartsiOSTop Paid · All Apps · KR · Top Paid · Games · KR
- 🌟Hyper Light Drifter featured by AppleiOSgames · AE, AU, BR, DE, ES, FR, GB, ID, IN, IT, JP, MX, NL, RU, SA, SE, TH, TR, TW, VN
- 🌟Hyper Light Drifter featured by AppleiOSgames · AE, AU, BR, DE, ES, FR, GB, ID, IN, IT, JP, MX, NL, RU, SA, SE, TH, TR, TW, VN
- 📈Hyper Light Drifter new best rank in the overall chart: #42iOSTop Paid · All Apps · TH
- 🌟Hyper Light Drifter featured by AppleiOSgames · AE, AU, BR, DE, ES, FR, GB, ID, IN, IT, JP, MX, NL, RU, SA, SE, TH, TR, TW, VN
- 🌟Hyper Light Drifter featured by AppleiOSgames · AE, AU, BR, DE, ES, FR, GB, ID, IN, IT, JP, MX, NL, RU, SA, SE, TH, TR, TW, VN
- 📈Hyper Light Drifter new best rank in the overall chart: #60iOSTop Paid · All Apps · TH
- 📈Hyper Light Drifter entered the top 100 in 11 chartsiOSTop Paid · Action · AU · Top Paid · Adventure · AU · Top Paid · Adventure · BR · Top Paid · Action · FR · +7 more
- 🌟Hyper Light Drifter featured by AppleiOSgames · AE, AU, BR, DE, ES, FR, GB, ID, IN, IT, JP, MX, NL, RU, SA, SE, TH, TR, TW, VN
- 🌟Hyper Light Drifter featured by AppleiOSgames · AE, AU, BR, DE, ES, FR, GB, ID, IN, IT, JP, MX, NL, RU, SA, SE, TH, TR, TW, VN
- 📈Hyper Light Drifter entered the top 100 in 5 chartsiOSTop Paid · Action · CA · Top Paid · Adventure · DE · Top Paid · Adventure · JP · Top Paid · All Apps · TH · +1 more
- 📈Hyper Light Drifter charting in a new country in 5 chartsiOSCanada · Germany · Mexico · Saudi Arabia · +1 more
- 🆕Hyper Light Drifter first spotted by AppInsiderAndroidIndonesia
- 🆕Hyper Light Drifter first spotted by AppInsideriOS#90 in Top Paid · Action · South Korea
- 🌟Hyper Light Drifter featured by AppleiOSgames · AE, AU, BR, DE, GB, ID, IN, IT, JP, RU, SA
- 🆕Hyper Light Drifter released on Google PlayAndroid
- 🆕Hyper Light Drifter released on the App StoreiOS
Collected from the stores by AppInsider since we first spotted the app. Dates are when we saw each change.
Rating
4.7 ★
7.8k ratings, both stores
Measured
Best rank now
#54
App Store · 
Games › Adventure Paid
Games › Adventure PaidMeasured
New ratings a week
25
▼ -23% vs the 2 weeks before (Google Play)
Measured
Hyper Light Drifter at a glance
AI summary written from our chart and store data. It can be wrong: check the numbers above.
Action RPG Pixel Fantasy long sessions Premium
#top-down #exploration #combat #story-rich #controller-support #indie
App Store
App details
App ID
1453875289
Publisher
Fictions, Inc.
Publisher country
Spain
On the store since
Jul 2019
7 years on the store
Minimum OS
iOS 13.0+
iPhone 6s and later
Devices
iPhone · iPad
Universal purchase · Game Center
Content rating
12+
3 content notes below
Languages
12
EN FR DE IT JA KO PT RU ZH ES ZH TR
Size
852 MB
Also listed in
Entertainment, Action, Adventure
Content notesInfrequent/Mild Cartoon or Fantasy ViolenceInfrequent/Mild Horror/Fear ThemesInfrequent/Mild Realistic Violence
Google Play
App details
App ID
com.abylight.HyperLightDrifter
Publisher
ABYLIGHT SL
Publisher country
Spain
Content rating
Teen
Hyper Light Drifter downloads & installs
Both stores, worldwide. Bands are open; exact numbers are free with an account.
| Store | Downloads / day | Lifetime installs |
|---|---|---|
| App Store | 10+ | 500k+ |
| Google Play | 10+ | 10k+ Measured |
| Total | 10+ Confidence | 1M+ Confidence |
How this is calculated
App Store: chart positions and rating growth per country, anchored on its own Android downloads; lifetime from ratings worldwide × installs per rating. Google Play: the daily change in its exact install count. The total adds every store.
Where Hyper Light Drifter's downloads come from Modelled
Last 30 days: organic search, browsing the store, features and paid ads.
Active users
All platforms, worldwide. Free with an account.
Stickiness (DAU / MAU)
how many monthly users open it on a given day
Retention · share of new users still active
Day 1
Day 7
Day 30
Time spent · per daily user
Average time spent Pro
min a day
Sessions a day Pro
Time per session Pro
min
How this is calculated
Monthly users come from lifetime installs across every store, fitted on monthly active user figures companies publish; daily users = monthly × the typical daily/monthly ratio for the category. Confidence is the chance the real number is within half to double ours.
Where it ranks now
Both stores, across every country we track.
| Store | Best rank | Charting in | US Top Free | US Top Grossing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| App Store | #54 Games › Adventure Paid | 11 of 30 countries | – | – |
| Google Play | – | 0 of 23 countries | – | – |
Full chart lists: App Store · Google Play.
Review momentum
ⓘ How we measure thisApp Store
New ratings a week
7.8
▲ +7% vs the 2 weeks before
Lifetime rating
4.9★
recent stars not readable yet: new ratings are a tiny share of the total
Review momentum
66/100
faster than 75% of Games apps
New ratings by country (2)
| Country | New ratings a week | Share | Last 2 weeks vs the 2 before |
|---|---|---|---|
 Japan | 2.8 | 50% | ▼ -38% |
 United States | 2.8 | 50% | ▼ -14% |
App Store ratings in the countries we track, 4-week average.
Google Play
New ratings a week
17
▼ -23% vs the 2 weeks before
Recent ratings
1.6★
vs 3.3★ lifetime
Review momentum
19/100
faster than 19% of Game action apps
Review momentum (0-100) blends how fast the app collects ratings compared with other apps in its category (60%), whether that pace is speeding up (25%) and what recent raters give it (15%; recent stars well below lifetime pull it down). Ratings counts are read daily. A jump usually means a launch, a feature, ads or a new review prompt.
Ratings
Both stores. Store data, measured.
| Store | Rating | Ratings |
|---|---|---|
| App Store | 4.9 ★ | 6.8k |
| Google Play | 3.3 ★ | 990 97 written reviews |
| Both stores | 4.7 ★ weighted by ratings | 7.8k |
What users say about Hyper Light Drifter
From the 105 most recent Google Play reviews in the US.
Mixed (50% of recent reviews give 4–5 stars). People like it for being fun, and regular updates. The main complaints are about crashes and bugs, and recent updates.
What people like
- Fun: “It's a very enjoyable game”
- Updates: “update: thank you for the update!”
- Design: “Such beautiful scenery that you don't wanna progress”
- Price & subscription: “very great game can I get a refund, I already finished it, spent 1.96 usd”
Common complaints
- Crashes & bugs: “Broken controller support”
- Updates: “This might be an android 16 issue and the game hasn't been updated to fix it”
- Ease of use: “fix that one issue and it's an easy 5 star”
- Price & subscription: “when I press B, it goes back to the home screen, making it completely unplayable and a complete waste of money”
About Hyper Light Drifter
Finally, Heart Machine's award winning slash-'em-up arrives to iOS in the most polished and refined version yet, the Special Edition.
► Winner of the Audience Award and Excellence in Visual Art awards of the prestigious Independent Games Festival.
► 14 + nominations among the Best Visual Design, Best Audio and Best original Game categories.
► 9/10 Destructoid - A hallmark of excellence. There may be flaws, but they are negligible and won't cause massive damage.
► 9.5/10 Game Informer - The combination of soundtrack, art, and combat creates a rabbit hole worth your full exploration.
► Eurogamer Recommended - Heart Machine's slash-'em-up is punishing and precise - and incredibly beautiful.
► 9/10 GameSpot - It is more than simply pretty; Hyper Light Drifter uses its visuals to both guide and relax you. The grandest vistas calm your pulse between difficult, breathless combat sequences.
► 8.5 Polygon - Hyper Light Drifter deftly mixes contemplative moments with breakneck action.
► 5 Stars Darkstation - The top-down action-RPG Hyper Light Drifter is an amazing game: gorgeous, a fascinating world to explore, tight controls, beautiful music, and the faith in the player for you to figure things out on your own.
Echoes of a dark and violent past resonate throughout a savage land, steeped in treasure and blood. Drifters of this world are the collectors of forgotten knowledge, lost technologies and broken histories. Our Drifter is haunted by an insatiable illness, traveling further into the lands of Buried Time, hoping to discover a way to quiet the vicious disease.
Hyper Light Drifter is an action adventure RPG in the vein of the best 16-bit classics, with modernized mechanics and designs on a much grander scale. Explore a beautiful, vast and ruined world riddled with dangers and lost technologies.
Features:
● 120 fps gameplay on iPad Pro / 60 fps on iPhone and iPad.
● Compatible with MFi controllers.
● Game Center achievements.
● Haptic Vibration.
● From each character to subtle background elements, everything is lovingly hand-animated.
● Easy to pick up, difficult to master; enemies are vicious and numerous, hazards will easily crush your frail body, and friendly faces remain rare.
● Upgrade weapons, learn new skills, discover equipment and traverse a dark, detailed world with branching paths and secrets abound.
● Evocative soundtrack composed by Disasterpeace.
● All the content from the original game + more weapons, enemies and areas from the Special edition.
► Winner of the Audience Award and Excellence in Visual Art awards of the prestigious Independent Games Festival.
► 14 + nominations among the Best Visual Design, Best Audio and Best original Game categories.
► 9/10 Destructoid - A hallmark of excellence. There may be flaws, but they are negligible and won't cause massive damage.
► 9.5/10 Game Informer - The combination of soundtrack, art, and combat creates a rabbit hole worth your full exploration.
► Eurogamer Recommended - Heart Machine's slash-'em-up is punishing and precise - and incredibly beautiful.
► 9/10 GameSpot - It is more than simply pretty; Hyper Light Drifter uses its visuals to both guide and relax you. The grandest vistas calm your pulse between difficult, breathless combat sequences.
► 8.5 Polygon - Hyper Light Drifter deftly mixes contemplative moments with breakneck action.
► 5 Stars Darkstation - The top-down action-RPG Hyper Light Drifter is an amazing game: gorgeous, a fascinating world to explore, tight controls, beautiful music, and the faith in the player for you to figure things out on your own.
Echoes of a dark and violent past resonate throughout a savage land, steeped in treasure and blood. Drifters of this world are the collectors of forgotten knowledge, lost technologies and broken histories. Our Drifter is haunted by an insatiable illness, traveling further into the lands of Buried Time, hoping to discover a way to quiet the vicious disease.
Hyper Light Drifter is an action adventure RPG in the vein of the best 16-bit classics, with modernized mechanics and designs on a much grander scale. Explore a beautiful, vast and ruined world riddled with dangers and lost technologies.
Features:
● 120 fps gameplay on iPad Pro / 60 fps on iPhone and iPad.
● Compatible with MFi controllers.
● Game Center achievements.
● Haptic Vibration.
● From each character to subtle background elements, everything is lovingly hand-animated.
● Easy to pick up, difficult to master; enemies are vicious and numerous, hazards will easily crush your frail body, and friendly faces remain rare.
● Upgrade weapons, learn new skills, discover equipment and traverse a dark, detailed world with branching paths and secrets abound.
● Evocative soundtrack composed by Disasterpeace.
● All the content from the original game + more weapons, enemies and areas from the Special edition.
Hyper Light Drifter App Store
Hyper Light Drifter is #82 in Games › Action Paid in Japan and charting in 11 of 30 countries we track.
Updated 8 Nov 2026 · rankings refresh through the day
DeveloperFictions
CategoryGames
Price4.99 USD
Released
Rating★ 4.9 (6.8k)
Version1.1.7
Age rating12+
First seen by us
24 Sep 2026
24 Sep 2026Installs (est.)500k+ worldwide
Rating
4.9 ★
6.8k ratings
Measured
Best rank now
#82
Games › Action PaidMeasured
New ratings a week
7.8
▲ +7% vs the 2 weeks before
Measured
Hyper Light Drifter at a glance
AI summary written from our chart and store data. It can be wrong: check the numbers above.
Action RPG Pixel Fantasy long sessions Premium
#top-down #exploration #combat #story-rich #controller-support #indie
Hyper Light Drifter on the App Store
App details
App ID
1453875289
Publisher
Fictions, Inc.
Publisher country
Spain
On the store since
Jul 2019
7 years on the store
Minimum OS
iOS 13.0+
iPhone 6s and later
Devices
iPhone · iPad
Universal purchase · Game Center
Content rating
12+
3 content notes below
Languages
12
EN FR DE IT JA KO PT RU ZH ES ZH TR
Size
852 MB
Also listed in
Entertainment, Action, Adventure
Content notesInfrequent/Mild Cartoon or Fantasy ViolenceInfrequent/Mild Horror/Fear ThemesInfrequent/Mild Realistic Violence
Hyper Light Drifter downloads
Worldwide, per day, and installs to date. The band is open; the exact number is free with an account.
How this is calculated
Apple publishes no download counts. App Store downloads come from chart positions and daily rating growth per country, calibrated on Google Play install counts; lifetime installs from ratings worldwide × installs per rating. Confidence is the chance the real number is within half to double ours.
Where Hyper Light Drifter's downloads come from Modelled
Last 30 days: organic search, browsing the store, features and paid ads.
Active users
All platforms, worldwide. Free with an account.
Stickiness (DAU / MAU)
how many monthly users open it on a given day
Retention · share of new users still active
Day 1
Day 7
Day 30
Time spent · per daily user
Average time spent Pro
min a day
Sessions a day Pro
Time per session Pro
min
How this is calculated
Monthly users come from lifetime installs across every store, fitted on monthly active user figures companies publish; daily users = monthly × the typical daily/monthly ratio for the category. Confidence is the chance the real number is within half to double ours.
Where it ranks now
Every top chart it appears in across 30 countries.
| Country | Charts | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| Japan | Games › ActionPaid | #82 |
| South Korea | Games › ActionPaid | #71 |
| Japan | Games › AdventurePaid | #164 |
| South Korea | Games › AdventurePaid | #79 |
 Canada | Games › AdventurePaid | #63 |
| Italy | GamesPaid | #161 |
| Italy | Games › AdventurePaid | #54 |
| Canada | Games › ActionPaid | #78 |
| Italy | Games › ActionPaid | #61 |
 Germany | Games › AdventurePaid | #142 |
 Russia | Games › ActionPaid | #69 |
 Brazil | Games › AdventurePaid | #108 |
| Russia | Games › AdventurePaid | #91 |
 India | Games › AdventurePaid | #136 |
| Brazil | Games › ActionPaid | #149 |
| India | Games › ActionPaid | #164 |
 Indonesia | Games › ActionPaid | #171 |
 Malaysia | GamesPaid | #187 |
 United Arab Emirates | Games › AdventurePaid | #155 |
Apps near Hyper Light Drifter on the chart
Games › Action Paid, around #82.
Ratings
App Store, worldwide.
Rating
4.9 ★
6.8k ratings
Measured
Ratings
6.8k
Measured
Review momentum
ⓘ How we measure thisNew ratings a week
7.8
▲ +7% vs the 2 weeks before
Lifetime rating
4.9★
recent stars not readable yet: new ratings are a tiny share of the total
Review momentum
66/100
faster than 75% of Games apps
New ratings by country (2)
| Country | New ratings a week | Share | Last 2 weeks vs the 2 before |
|---|---|---|---|
| Japan | 2.8 | 50% | ▼ -38% |
| United States | 2.8 | 50% | ▼ -14% |
App Store ratings in the countries we track, 4-week average.
Review momentum (0-100) blends how fast the app collects ratings compared with other apps in its category (60%), whether that pace is speeding up (25%) and what recent raters give it (15%; recent stars well below lifetime pull it down). Ratings counts are read daily. A jump usually means a launch, a feature, ads or a new review prompt.
About Hyper Light Drifter
Finally, Heart Machine's award winning slash-'em-up arrives to iOS in the most polished and refined version yet, the Special Edition.
► Winner of the Audience Award and Excellence in Visual Art awards of the prestigious Independent Games Festival.
► 14 + nominations among the Best Visual Design, Best Audio and Best original Game categories.
► 9/10 Destructoid - A hallmark of excellence. There may be flaws, but they are negligible and won't cause massive damage.
► 9.5/10 Game Informer - The combination of soundtrack, art, and combat creates a rabbit hole worth your full exploration.
► Eurogamer Recommended - Heart Machine's slash-'em-up is punishing and precise - and incredibly beautiful.
► 9/10 GameSpot - It is more than simply pretty; Hyper Light Drifter uses its visuals to both guide and relax you. The grandest vistas calm your pulse between difficult, breathless combat sequences.
► 8.5 Polygon - Hyper Light Drifter deftly mixes contemplative moments with breakneck action.
► 5 Stars Darkstation - The top-down action-RPG Hyper Light Drifter is an amazing game: gorgeous, a fascinating world to explore, tight controls, beautiful music, and the faith in the player for you to figure things out on your own.
Echoes of a dark and violent past resonate throughout a savage land, steeped in treasure and blood. Drifters of this world are the collectors of forgotten knowledge, lost technologies and broken histories. Our Drifter is haunted by an insatiable illness, traveling further into the lands of Buried Time, hoping to discover a way to quiet the vicious disease.
Hyper Light Drifter is an action adventure RPG in the vein of the best 16-bit classics, with modernized mechanics and designs on a much grander scale. Explore a beautiful, vast and ruined world riddled with dangers and lost technologies.
Features:
● 120 fps gameplay on iPad Pro / 60 fps on iPhone and iPad.
● Compatible with MFi controllers.
● Game Center achievements.
● Haptic Vibration.
● From each character to subtle background elements, everything is lovingly hand-animated.
● Easy to pick up, difficult to master; enemies are vicious and numerous, hazards will easily crush your frail body, and friendly faces remain rare.
● Upgrade weapons, learn new skills, discover equipment and traverse a dark, detailed world with branching paths and secrets abound.
● Evocative soundtrack composed by Disasterpeace.
● All the content from the original game + more weapons, enemies and areas from the Special edition.
► Winner of the Audience Award and Excellence in Visual Art awards of the prestigious Independent Games Festival.
► 14 + nominations among the Best Visual Design, Best Audio and Best original Game categories.
► 9/10 Destructoid - A hallmark of excellence. There may be flaws, but they are negligible and won't cause massive damage.
► 9.5/10 Game Informer - The combination of soundtrack, art, and combat creates a rabbit hole worth your full exploration.
► Eurogamer Recommended - Heart Machine's slash-'em-up is punishing and precise - and incredibly beautiful.
► 9/10 GameSpot - It is more than simply pretty; Hyper Light Drifter uses its visuals to both guide and relax you. The grandest vistas calm your pulse between difficult, breathless combat sequences.
► 8.5 Polygon - Hyper Light Drifter deftly mixes contemplative moments with breakneck action.
► 5 Stars Darkstation - The top-down action-RPG Hyper Light Drifter is an amazing game: gorgeous, a fascinating world to explore, tight controls, beautiful music, and the faith in the player for you to figure things out on your own.
Echoes of a dark and violent past resonate throughout a savage land, steeped in treasure and blood. Drifters of this world are the collectors of forgotten knowledge, lost technologies and broken histories. Our Drifter is haunted by an insatiable illness, traveling further into the lands of Buried Time, hoping to discover a way to quiet the vicious disease.
Hyper Light Drifter is an action adventure RPG in the vein of the best 16-bit classics, with modernized mechanics and designs on a much grander scale. Explore a beautiful, vast and ruined world riddled with dangers and lost technologies.
Features:
● 120 fps gameplay on iPad Pro / 60 fps on iPhone and iPad.
● Compatible with MFi controllers.
● Game Center achievements.
● Haptic Vibration.
● From each character to subtle background elements, everything is lovingly hand-animated.
● Easy to pick up, difficult to master; enemies are vicious and numerous, hazards will easily crush your frail body, and friendly faces remain rare.
● Upgrade weapons, learn new skills, discover equipment and traverse a dark, detailed world with branching paths and secrets abound.
● Evocative soundtrack composed by Disasterpeace.
● All the content from the original game + more weapons, enemies and areas from the Special edition.
Latest updates
1.1.7
Hyper Light Drifter - S.E. Android
Not in a tracked Google Play top chart right now.
Updated 8 Nov 2026 · rankings refresh through the day
DeveloperAbylight Studios
CategoryGames › Action
Price5.49 USD
Released
Installs10k+
Rating★ 3.3 (990)
Updated
Content ratingTeen
Rating
3.3 ★
990 ratings
Measured
New ratings a week
17
▼ -23% vs the 2 weeks before
Measured
Hyper Light Drifter - S.E. at a glance
AI summary written from our chart and store data. It can be wrong: check the numbers above.
Action RPG Pixel Sci-fi Fantasy long sessions Premium
#top-down #roguelite #exploration #combat #story-rich #hand-animated
Hyper Light Drifter - S.E. on Google Play
App details
App ID
com.abylight.HyperLightDrifter
Publisher
ABYLIGHT SL
Publisher country
Spain
Content rating
Teen
Hyper Light Drifter - S.E. downloads
Worldwide, per day, and installs to date. The band is open; the exact number is free with an account.
How this is calculated
Google Play shows an exact lifetime install count; downloads per day are its daily change (measured). When Play hasn't refreshed the count, they come from new ratings and Top Free chart positions. Confidence is the chance the real number is within half to double ours.
Where Hyper Light Drifter - S.E.'s downloads come from Modelled
Last 30 days: organic search, browsing the store, features and paid ads.
Active users
All platforms, worldwide. Free with an account.
Stickiness (DAU / MAU)
how many monthly users open it on a given day
How this is calculated
Monthly users come from lifetime installs across every store, fitted on monthly active user figures companies publish; daily users = monthly × the typical daily/monthly ratio for the category. Confidence is the chance the real number is within half to double ours.
Where it ranks on Google Play
Every top 200 chart it appears in across 23 countries.
| Country | Charts | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| Not in a Google Play top chart right now. | ||
Ratings
Google Play, worldwide.
Rating
3.3 ★
990 ratings
Measured
Ratings
990
Measured
Written reviews
97
Measured
Review momentum
ⓘ How we measure thisNew ratings a week
17
▼ -23% vs the 2 weeks before
Recent ratings
1.6★
vs 3.3★ lifetime
Review momentum
19/100
faster than 19% of Game action apps
Review momentum (0-100) blends how fast the app collects ratings compared with other apps in its category (60%), whether that pace is speeding up (25%) and what recent raters give it (15%; recent stars well below lifetime pull it down). Ratings counts are read daily. A jump usually means a launch, a feature, ads or a new review prompt.
What users say about Hyper Light Drifter - S.E.
From the 105 most recent Google Play reviews in the US.
Mixed (50% of recent reviews give 4–5 stars). People like it for being fun, and regular updates. The main complaints are about crashes and bugs, and recent updates.
What people like
- Fun: “It's a very enjoyable game”
- Updates: “update: thank you for the update!”
- Design: “Such beautiful scenery that you don't wanna progress”
- Price & subscription: “very great game can I get a refund, I already finished it, spent 1.96 usd”
Common complaints
- Crashes & bugs: “Broken controller support”
- Updates: “This might be an android 16 issue and the game hasn't been updated to fix it”
- Ease of use: “fix that one issue and it's an easy 5 star”
- Price & subscription: “when I press B, it goes back to the home screen, making it completely unplayable and a complete waste of money”
About Hyper Light Drifter - S.E.
Finally, the console award winning slash-'em-up arrives to Android in the most polished and refined version yet, the Special Edition.
► Winner of the Audience Award and Excellence in Visual Art awards of the prestigious Independent Games Festival.
► 14 + nominations among the Best Visual Design, Best Audio and Best original Game categories.
► 9/10 Destructoid - A hallmark of excellence. There may be flaws, but they are negligible and won't cause massive damage.
► 9.5/10 Game Informer - The combination of soundtrack, art, and combat creates a rabbit hole worth your full exploration.
► Eurogamer Recommended - Heart Machine's slash-'em-up is punishing and precise - and incredibly beautiful.
► 9/10 GameSpot - It is more than simply pretty; Hyper Light Drifter uses its visuals to both guide and relax you. The grandest vistas calm your pulse between difficult, breathless combat sequences.
► 8.5 Polygon - Hyper Light Drifter deftly mixes contemplative moments with breakneck action.
► 5 Stars Darkstation - The top-down action-RPG Hyper Light Drifter is an amazing game: gorgeous, a fascinating world to explore, tight controls, beautiful music, and the faith in the player for you to figure things out on your own.
Echoes of a dark and violent past resonate throughout a savage land, steeped in treasure and blood. Drifters of this world are the collectors of forgotten knowledge, lost technologies and broken histories. Our Drifter is haunted by an insatiable illness, traveling further into the lands of Buried Time, hoping to discover a way to quiet the vicious disease.
Hyper Light Drifter is an action adventure RPG in the vein of the best 16-bit classics, with modernized mechanics and designs on a much grander scale. Explore a beautiful, vast and ruined world riddled with dangers and lost technologies.
Features:
● Achievements.
● Haptic Vibration.
● From each character to subtle background elements, everything is lovingly hand-animated.
● Easy to pick up, difficult to master; enemies are vicious and numerous, hazards will easily crush your frail body, and friendly faces remain rare.
● Upgrade weapons, learn new skills, discover equipment and traverse a dark, detailed world with branching paths and secrets abound.
● Evocative soundtrack composed by Disasterpeace.
● All the content from the original game + more weapons, enemies and areas from the Special edition.
► Winner of the Audience Award and Excellence in Visual Art awards of the prestigious Independent Games Festival.
► 14 + nominations among the Best Visual Design, Best Audio and Best original Game categories.
► 9/10 Destructoid - A hallmark of excellence. There may be flaws, but they are negligible and won't cause massive damage.
► 9.5/10 Game Informer - The combination of soundtrack, art, and combat creates a rabbit hole worth your full exploration.
► Eurogamer Recommended - Heart Machine's slash-'em-up is punishing and precise - and incredibly beautiful.
► 9/10 GameSpot - It is more than simply pretty; Hyper Light Drifter uses its visuals to both guide and relax you. The grandest vistas calm your pulse between difficult, breathless combat sequences.
► 8.5 Polygon - Hyper Light Drifter deftly mixes contemplative moments with breakneck action.
► 5 Stars Darkstation - The top-down action-RPG Hyper Light Drifter is an amazing game: gorgeous, a fascinating world to explore, tight controls, beautiful music, and the faith in the player for you to figure things out on your own.
Echoes of a dark and violent past resonate throughout a savage land, steeped in treasure and blood. Drifters of this world are the collectors of forgotten knowledge, lost technologies and broken histories. Our Drifter is haunted by an insatiable illness, traveling further into the lands of Buried Time, hoping to discover a way to quiet the vicious disease.
Hyper Light Drifter is an action adventure RPG in the vein of the best 16-bit classics, with modernized mechanics and designs on a much grander scale. Explore a beautiful, vast and ruined world riddled with dangers and lost technologies.
Features:
● Achievements.
● Haptic Vibration.
● From each character to subtle background elements, everything is lovingly hand-animated.
● Easy to pick up, difficult to master; enemies are vicious and numerous, hazards will easily crush your frail body, and friendly faces remain rare.
● Upgrade weapons, learn new skills, discover equipment and traverse a dark, detailed world with branching paths and secrets abound.
● Evocative soundtrack composed by Disasterpeace.
● All the content from the original game + more weapons, enemies and areas from the Special edition.
What's new in 1.1.99
We've just updated Hyper Light Drifter for Android devices.
- Support for controllers has been improved. Now the game supports PS4, Xbox and Android controllers.
Thanks for your support!
- Support for controllers has been improved. Now the game supports PS4, Xbox and Android controllers.
Thanks for your support!
Store changes
What Hyper Light Drifter - S.E. changed on its store page: name, icon, screenshots, price, size, languages, requirements.
Price rise
1.81 USD → 5.49 USD
Price drop
5.49 USD → 1.81 USD