Special Edition content adds more weapons, enemies, and areas
Hand-animated visuals with tight, challenging combat
Paid price may deter free-to-play competitors
No recent momentum in the last 30 days (0)
Regional rankings around #70-71 indicate niche appeal versus top titles
About Hyper Light Drifter - S.E.
Hyper Light Drifter - S.E. is an action app developed by Abylight Studios.
Download Statistics
Hyper Light Drifter - S.E. has been downloaded 14 thousand times. In the last 30 days, the app was downloaded 0 times. It is ranked in the top 100 action apps.
User Ratings
Hyper Light Drifter - S.E. is rated 3.61 out of 5 stars. The rating is based on 700 ratings.
App Information
Hyper Light Drifter - S.E. costs $5.49 to download. The APK download size is 452.75 MB. The latest version available is 1.1.99. The last update was on September 19, 2025.
Technical Requirements
Hyper Light Drifter - S.E. requires Android 5.0+ or higher. The app has a content rating of Medium Maturity. The app has been available on Google Play March 2024.
Description
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.
► 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.
Recent changes: 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.
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Comments on Hyper Light Drifter - S.E. for Android
★★★★☆R.R· Feb 11, 2026
It's a very enjoyable game. But the controller supports really pisses me off. Every time I press B the controller exits the game, and I can't even rebind the button to something else. Regardless, it's still a very good game and the touch controls are pretty good. Just if they fix this it would be even better.
★★★★☆Femi Ayo-Gbenjo· Oct 11, 2025
The game was always great, and it is easily accessible on mobile. The recent update adds Bluetooth controller support, and it is great to see it. The only problem I have with the recent update is that Android controllers aren't mapped properly. The B button keeps exiting me out of the game, and I don't know why it is happening. Aside from that, the game is fantastic.
★★★★★Seth Kimberley Graham· Nov 23, 2025
(EDIT: update 1.1.99 has allowed the use of my 8bitdo controller and ultimate software button remapping. Good job devs. Fixed the crash at Dash Masters shop.) this is my favorite game but this Android port is sloppy. I'm on a brand-new Pixel 8pro and the game won't detect a new 8bitdo controller. Game crashes as soon as I enter the Dash Masters shop in town. I don't want to keep playing if it's this buggy. I will change this review if it is patched.
★☆☆☆☆David· Mar 31, 2026
Good game but poor optimization for the controls (PS5, xbox and so on) I press the button b and the game closes every time
★☆☆☆☆Mark Menegatti ᴏsᴀ· Sep 15, 2025
Doesn't work like I hoped or as advertised. Backbone Controller doesn't work. No Backbone controller support. Alternative controller doesn't work. I didn't have any interest in playing a touchscreen game on my phone.
★☆☆☆☆Quinlin North· Dec 1, 2025
Controller Support Not There - Unplayable - Very Unhappy I have the Galaxy Z Fold 7 I have now tried two very popular controllers. - Backbone One - Game sir X5s both controllers, when connected with either plug-in or Bluetooth, will still register the B or O button as back. When I press B, it goes back to the home screen, making it completely unplayable and a complete waste of money. I've googled everywhere, used AI to figure it out, there is no solution aside from rooting my phone.
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