Does Hyper Light Breaker Have Co-Op?

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is a highly-discussed new title in early 2025, but does it support co-op play? is a roguelike/extraction shooter hybrid that has launched into its early access on Steam. Players are thrown into a world known as the Overgrowth and tasked with beating a series of bosses before being able to extract. Based on developer comments, 's early access is set to run for about a year.

So far, 's early access has a lukewarm reception. Though much of the gameplay is fun, it has all the signs of an early-access game that is incomplete. To go along with this, there have been plenty of complaints about the graphical and technical performance of the game. These types of issues can be understood for an early access game, but are not the kind of thing that some will play through, especially given the $30 price tag.

Luckily,can be played alone or with friends. In fact, the game is more suited to playing with others due to the natural difficulty of the game. However, the game does scale off the number of players, so a solo experience will be challenging but easier per enemy than a co-op game. This is a fair substitute for the extraction roguelike, replacing a time contrast with the goal of surviving an ever-growing threat.

Co-op in is easy to access with friends or random players. From the main hub, speaking to a robot in the Main Hall will give the option to create a party or join one. However, parties can only hold up to three people, which may seem small but is likely to balance the difficulty scaling. If parties could hold more, it may get to the point where enemies have to be so strong to compensate, that they could easily one-shot players.

Oddly enough, for being largely a multiplayer experience, the game currently has no voice or text chat. This could just be because of the early access state, and will likely be added at some point given the quality-of-life it would offer. The alternative to this would be communicating outside the game, which is popular nowadays, or with the