Hyper Light Drifter
by Fictions
- Games
- Paid
- Zombie
- Small & simple · 74
- Rating
- 4.9
- 6.8K ratings · US storefront
- Top 74%among 251 Games apps
- Last update
- Oct 30, 2021
- Version 1.1.7
- Size
- 852 MB
- Category
- Games
- Tracked since
- Oct 10, 2026
Estimated revenue
A model estimate with a likely range, not a reported figure.
No estimate. Apps outside the grossing charts, and some countries, have no reliable rank-to-revenue curve, so we show nothing rather than a guess.
How this estimate is made
Rank: we take the app's best Top Grossing rank on the latest chart day. Category ranks are converted into an equivalent overall rank, because a #10 in Finance earns far less than a #10 overall.
Curve: that equivalent rank is read off a rank-to-revenue curve anchored on public company revenue and market-data reports for the US iPhone App Store.
Country: the curve is scaled per country (Japan is roughly a third of the US, Türkiye under 1%). Where we have no scale, such as China, there is no estimate.
Range: the likely range widens with country, category and chart depth. It is a plausible span, not a statistical confidence interval.
Not included: ads, payments outside the App Store, and any difference between gross sales and what the developer keeps. Low confidence means indirect data; medium means several independent sources agree.
Full methodScreenshots
As shown on the App Store listing.
About this app
Text from the App Store listing.
Finally, Heart Machine's award winning slash-'em-up arrives to iOS 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.
► 8.5 Polygon - Hyper Light Drifter deftly mixes contemplative moments with breakneck action.
► 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:
- 120 fps gameplay on iPad Pro / 60 fps on iPhone and iPad.
- Compatible with MFi controllers.
- Game Center 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.
What’s new
Release notes for the latest version, as written by the developer.
Improved compatibility with 120 hz screen refresh rate on the new iPhone and iPad models.
Rank history
Daily position in the Australia charts. #1 is at the top.
- Best rank
- #72
- Current rank
- #72
- Days charting
- 2 of 7
On the charts today
Small & simple score
How realistic it is for a small team to build something like this.
74/100
Small & simple
- Developer size100% · 25
Developer: 1 app on the charts
- Audience size20% · 20
Ratings: 6,766
- App size25% · 10
Size: 852 MB
- Price model100% · 15
Price model: paid
- Demand proof90% · 30
Best rank #9, 22 countries
An indicator, not a fact. We can't see team size. Calculated Oct 24, 2026 · method i2
How the score worksVersion history
- 1.1.7LatestReleased Oct 30, 2021