Hyper Light Drifter
Fair · RPG · 2016
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
WAIT.
It has sold at a BANGER price before.
Today
$19.99Fair
On its price record
$7.51BANGER
- Cost per hour▼
- $2.56/hr
- ReviewsS
- 93% of 19,310
- Critics
- 84 players 9 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 7% RPG
Holding it back: Cost per hour
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at $7.51 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 7.8h
- To 100%
- 27.1h 3.5x the story
- Achievements
- 23
Price and sales
- Sales
- 33 on record
- Typical cut
- 50% off
- Steam low
- $4.99 June 2026
- Sale every
- 84d last September 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 50 now
- Recent reviews
- 96% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 10% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 97% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
49% start to <1% rarestThis site could not identify an ending achievement for this game, so there is no finish rate. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
33 discounts in the 11 years on record, a median of 50 percent off across all of them, roughly 12 weeks apart. It becomes a BANGER at $7.51, a level the record has reached 4 times.
Its score puts it in the top 7 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 90 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 97 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Celeste ($19.99, scores 76) beats it on value, while it beats Convoy ($14.99, scores 48).
More about Hyper Light Drifter
The press gave it 84; the people who bought it give it 93 percent. A 9-point gap in the buyer's favour.
This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 14 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written August 2020 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 70 percent of the 1,124 reviews written there were positive, against 93 percent overall, and those are 7 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 7.8 hours; clearing it takes 27, which is 3.5 times the campaign.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 7.8 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Discounted in 1 of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last discount ended 31 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
Slight warning, this game has a native linux client, this version is scuffed and crashes after about an hour of play. Run the game through proton to resolve this issue. Unfortuneatly, saves are not compatible between windows and linux version, so if you played a bit, got annoyed with the crashes and want to swap over. you need to restart. Fortunately Its not a very long game, At 10 hours i finished the game, i...
2 more reviews
In recent years the idea of environmental storytelling has gotten a bad rap, particularly in part because of how it's pretty lazily done. Many devs should take inspiration from games like Hyper Light Drifter which uses very little words, but still manages to explore a compelling post-apocalyptic world through stunning visuals alone. But I will be honest, I actually got Hyper Light Drifter a long time ago and it was...
Hyper Light Drifter : what an adventure. It'd be easier to list my frustrations with the game because the list would be far more concise than what I loved about this title. To start with, the decision to supply us with such a deep and expansive world, in terms of lore and identity, paired with a wordless narrative is inspired. Every inch of the lands you explore is packed with rich visual story telling steeped in...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
Explore a beautiful, vast and ruined world riddled with dangers and lost technologies.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, 512 mb video memory, 2 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Cite this score
Hyper Light Drifter scores 67/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/257850/hyper-light-drifterReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Nov 6, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.