Hyper Light Breaker has been delayed again

Hyper Light Breaker’s early access release on Steam has been delayed to 2025.

It’s the latest in a series of delays for the game, which was originally planned to hit early access in 2023, and most recently expected to launch this summer.

“After much evaluation and many conversations with our publisher Arc Games, we’ve decided that we need just a little more time to get the gameplay experience polished to our standards,” developer Heart Machine explained.

“Therefore, we’re now looking at an Early Access launch date of very early next 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 3D one.

“We don’t want to ship a project, even in Early Access, that we’re not satisfied with on a number of fronts,” Heart Machine’s statement continued. “Especially in the current state of the industry, we need to put as good a foot forward as we can.

“As always, we believe in maintaining a sustainable pace of development for our team, which means taking care of the mental and physical health needs of everyone first, rather than burning the team out trying to hit a specific set launch date. This will enable the team to offer better, more responsive support to community feedback during the Early Access period itself.”

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

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