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Hyper Light Drifter

Developed by
  1. Heart Machine
Published by
  1. Heart Machine
Peak #188
Current #474
Top 250 56%
Gem Peak #176

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Explore a beautiful, vast and ruined world riddled with dangers and lost technologies.

$19.99
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Dates

Released
2016-03-31
First review
2016-03-31
Age on Steam
1,847 days (5 years)

Reviews

Reviews of which
Verified Steam purchases
14,046 11,378 (81%)
Reviews per day
7
Positive reviews
13,174 (93.8%)
Days in top 1000
1,846 (99%)
Estimated owners Based on research by GameDiscoverCo median
455K–1M 910,240

Pricing

Release price
$17.99 ($19.99 -10%)
Lowest price (earliest)
$7.99 (2018-05-06)
Average price
$19.28
Average discount
$10.52
Number of discounts
20
Days discounted
145 (7.9%)
Estimated gross sales Based on research by GameDiscoverCo median
$7M–$21M $13,864,047
Estimated net sales Based on research by GameDiscoverCo median
$4M–$12M $8,006,487

Tags

Tags in descending order of votes. Votes are the number of times a tag has been applied to this game by a Steam user, shown next to each tag name.

  1. Pixel Graphics 700
  2. Great Soundtrack 526
  3. Atmospheric 516
  4. Adventure 504
  5. Difficult 489
  6. Indie 461
  7. Action 419
  8. Singleplayer 314
  9. Hack and Slash 301
  10. Exploration 286
  11. RPG 282
  12. 2D 231
  13. Colorful 226
  14. Post-apocalyptic 207
  15. Top-Down 198
  16. Action RPG 196
  17. Fantasy 174
  18. Metroidvania 164
  19. Sci-fi 163
  1. Souls-like 144

Tags below the threshold do not have enough votes to be considered valid for this game yet.

Details last updated: April 20, 2021 04:44

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