Following delays, Hyper Light Breaker has a new launch window

Developer Heart Machine has announced a new launch window for Hyper Light Breaker.

Following two delays, the studio told IGN it’s now targeting a Steam Early Access release for the game this summer.

Heart Machine is estimating that the game will be in Early Access for about a year.

Announced in March 2022, the follow-up to 2016 action RPG Hyper Light Drifter shifts from the original game’s 2D perspective to a new 3D one.

Explaining the decision to release the game via Early Access, Heart Machine said on Steam: “Our game is an open world, online, rogue-lite with procedurally generated worlds – it has limitless re-playability with a wild number of combinations.

“We are essentially inventing and defining this subgenre of ‘open world rogue-lite,’ and feel strongly that openness and responsiveness to player feedback will be critical to this ambitious process.

“The community will be instrumental in helping us to balance the experience, evolve the designs and make a better, more performant, versatile and complete game ultimately.”

Hyper Light Drifter debuted on PC before making its way to PS4 and Xbox One after several months, and to Nintendo Switch and iOS a few years later.

Console versions of Hyper Light Breaker have yet to be announced.