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Hyper Light Drifter

Developed by
  1. Heart Machine
Published by
  1. Heart Machine
Peak #194
Current #433
Top 250 59%
Gem Peak #178

Ranking history

Cumulative review history

Price history (USD)

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
1,756 days (4.8 years)

Reviews

Reviews of which
Verified Steam purchases
13,827 11,228 (81%)
Reviews per day
7
Positive reviews
12,974 (93.8%)
Days in top 1000
1,755 (99%)
Estimated owners Based on research by GameDiscoverCo median
449K–1M 898,240

Pricing

Release price
$17.99 ($19.99 -10%)
Lowest price (earliest)
$7.99 (2018-05-06)
Average price
$19.24
Average discount
$10.52
Number of discounts
20
Days discounted
145 (8.3%)
Estimated gross sales Based on research by GameDiscoverCo median
$7M–$20M $13,652,889
Estimated net sales Based on research by GameDiscoverCo median
$4M–$12M $7,884,543

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 683
  2. Great Soundtrack 515
  3. Atmospheric 501
  4. Adventure 494
  5. Difficult 481
  6. Indie 452
  7. Action 414
  8. Singleplayer 310
  9. Hack and Slash 293
  10. RPG 281
  11. Exploration 279
  12. 2D 227
  13. Colorful 221
  14. Post-apocalyptic 201
  15. Top-Down 192
  16. Action RPG 192
  17. Fantasy 168
  18. Sci-fi 159
  19. Metroidvania 156
  20. Souls-like 136

The last few tags appear darker because they do not have enough votes to be considered valid for this game yet.

Details last updated: January 19, 2021 04:44
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