10 Video Games With Unique Art Styles You Need To See
2. Hyper Light Drifter
Rogue-like, pixel art style dungeon crawlers have been doing the rounds now for a while that you could throw a stone in the Steam library and hit a whole bunch. Why should Hyper Light Drifter be any different?
Well, because it plays like a love letter to Zelda classic, A Link to the Past whilst managing to tell a well written story with absolutely no dialogue. Am I being obtuse? Maybe.
But the magic in HLD is just how well it plays, accompanied by a synthwave-esque soundtrack from Disasterpiece, who composed the soundtrack to Fez before this.
Set across four large quest areas, the game seems the titular Drifter save a land from an unspecified illness, in a time that has let is technological advancements lay dormant. That the Drifter has access to this now-primitive technologies hints at more, but we're never quite given that explanation as we progress.
Backed by tight and tense combat from more recent games, invoking hack and slash as well as occasional glimpses of bullet hell action, Hyper Light Drifter holds a high spot for me as a "like Zelda but modern" game.