Ever since I saw Superbrothers: Sword and Sworcery EP pop up on the App Store a very long time ago, I’ve grown to love pixel art games. Nothing really managed impressing me as much as Sworcery until I saw a trailer for Hyper Light Drifter ($4.99) which at the time was a Kickstarter project. It almost looked too good to be true and I thought the video might just be a proof of concept that won’t actually play that way when the game releases. Fast forward to the PS4 release and I was very impressed by Heart Machine’s Hyper Light Drifter in almost every way. The visuals and music so far were superb but I was a bit let down by some of the mechanics and difficulty scaling. I ended up dropping the game and only really giving it a fair shot when the Nintendo Switch release happened. This is when I fell in love with the game and with Disasterpeace’s score.
When Heart Machine and Abylight Studios announced an iOS port, I was pretty surprised. With the Nintendo Switch getting a lot of mobile ports and the mobile platform starting to see some indie games that were previously on Switch, I still never expected to see Hyper Light Drifter show up on iOS but here we are. Hyper Light Drifter on iOS is not just a port of the initial PC or console version but a port based on the Nintendo Switch release that had exclusive content. With the content included in this port and the pricing, iOS-only gamers who want quality premium content will definitely find that here...