Not content to deliver yet another game in the increasingly crowded roguelike space, Heart Machine's Hyper Light Breaker is an ambitious new take on the subgenre aiming to be a true "open-world roguelike." It's a challenge that Heart Machine has taken to with zeal, aiming to solve what it refers to as the "impossible problem" of mixing competing gameplay elements to make Hyper Light Breaker both a great roguelike game and a great open-world game. To deliver on the disparate genres, Hyper Light Breaker needed to take a unique approach to its biomes and how players traverse them.