Games Like Hyper Light Drifter
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The closest games to Hyper Light Drifter are Death's Door, Tunic, Hollow Knight, Titan Souls and Blasphemous 2. Below are 9 picks with the reason for each — what carries over from Hyper Light Drifter, and what does not.
What Made Hyper Light Drifter Work
Hyper Light Drifter tells you nothing. No text, no tutorial, a world you read through pictograms and ruins, and combat that is fast enough to kill you in three hits. The pixel art and the Disasterpeace score do the storytelling, and the difficulty is deliberate rather than incidental.
9 Games Like Hyper Light Drifter
1.Death's Door
Compact top-down adventure paced almost identically, and kinder.
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One arrow, one hit, a string of puzzle-bosses in a quiet overworld.
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How These Picks Match Hyper Light Drifter
Hyper Light Drifter is catalogued here as an action-adventure and art-led game on the PlayStation 4. All nine picks share at least one of its genre tags — seven action games and six adventures among them.
Four of the picks have their own list on this site, catalogued under the Nintendo Switch (3) and the PlayStation 2. Death's Door, Tunic, Hollow Knight, Titan Souls, Blasphemous 2, Katana ZERO, Ender Lilies and Eastward are from small or self-published studios.
| Game | Genre | Shares with Hyper Light Drifter | Where to play |
|---|---|---|---|
| Death's Door | Adventure, Action, Indie | Action, Adventure | Nintendo Switch (catalogued) |
| Tunic | Adventure, Puzzle, Indie | Adventure | — |
| Hollow Knight | Platformer, Action, Indie | Action | Nintendo Switch (catalogued) |
| Titan Souls | Action, Adventure, Indie | Action, Adventure | — |
| Blasphemous 2 | Platformer, Action, Indie | Action | — |
| Katana ZERO | Action, Platformer, Indie | Action | Nintendo Switch (catalogued) |
| Ender Lilies | Action, Adventure, RPG, Indie | Action, Adventure | — |
| Eastward | Adventure, RPG, Indie | Adventure | — |
| Shadow of the Colossus | Adventure, Action, Puzzle | Action, Adventure | PlayStation 2 (catalogued) |
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