It looks like Hyper Light studio Heart Machine may have suffered another round of layoffs, as multiple employees are reporting on social media (via Game Developer) that they've been let go. The ...

Heart Machine, the developers behind games such as Hyper Light Drifter, Hyper Light Breaker, and Solar Ash, has announced that it is laying off several employees and reducing its staff down to a ...

In what has seemingly become the terrible standard for the game industry, Heart Machine—the studio behind Hyper Light Drifter—will be initiating layoffs. According to Game Developer, the studio ...

At GDC 2025, I watched a walkthrough of one of the early levels of Possessor(s), the next game from Heart Machine. The studio typically goes for action games but mixes in a little bit of something ...

Heart Machine, the US-based developer behind Hyper Light Drifter and its upcoming sequel, is the latest studio to suffer a round of layoffs. The company confirmed to GameDeveloper it has dismissed a ...

Though Heart Machine’s games, like Hyper Light Drifter and Solar Ash, span a variety of genres, there’s a visual throughline connecting them all. If you’ve noticed that shared sensibility, that’s ...