Hyper Light Drifter featured a major theme of living with a potentially terminal illness, a story inspired by Heart Machine founder Alx Preston's own experiences with heart disease.

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Heart Machine's open-world roguelike Hyper Light Breaker landed with a thud but has noticeably improved since launch and will soon begin a proper comeback tour of monthly updates, as the devs told ...