New METROIDVANIA from HYPER LIGHT DRIFTER studio? | Possessor(s)
If you love Heart Machine like we do, then you will probably enjoy our video of the BEST INDIE STUDIOS OF 2024
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Hyper Light Drifter is pretty high on our list of best games ever as it was full of personality, passion and for a game where the character never says a word, the game was deeply emotional.
We strongly believe that Heart Machine are one of the best indie studios around. A studio that you can trust what they are making is going to be great. In fact, in our recent ranking of the best indie studios in 2024, which was data based, Heart Machine didn’t make the Top 5, due to the lukewarm critical reception of Solar Ash, their semi open world, follow up to HLD. However, they were the only studio that we felt deserved a special mention as the rest of the list felt appropriate, but Heart Machines place didn’t. Solar Ash was a really good game that felt like a blend of Shadow of The Colossus, Hyper Light Drifter and Sunset Overdrive.
Although Heart Machine is busy working on Hyper Light Breaker, a third person action adventure roguelike with procedurally worlds that looks incredible and a fusion of everything they have learned from their first two games, but they also revealed another title coming in 2025.
Possessors looks to get back to the more intimate style more akin to Hyper Light Drifter and is being published by Devolver Digital this time around.
We were initially going to Possessors as one of our TOP 5 announcements from Summer Game Fest, which it still is, but then we realized something quite interesting as we started looking for more information on the game.
It seems like Heart Machine just announced a Metroidvania.