Edge

HYPER LIGHT BREAKER

Developer Heart Machine

Publisher Gearbox Publishing

Format PC

Origin US

Release Summer (early access)

Given that one wrong move can potentially mean having to start the whole thing again, lending tension to every enemy encounter, Roguelikes are among the most high-pressure games you can play. Throw in time constraints and that tension heightens further. And when you’re sharing your screen with a game’s director, as we are here with Heart Machine’s Alx Preston silently observing our every mistake, well, that’s a new level of pressure entirely.

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