Like many of its predecessors,Hyper Light Breakeris a challenging, but rewarding roguelike.

Or, at least it can be if you play your cards right.

Hyper Light Breaker breaks genre conventions, but does that make for a better experience?

Hyper Light Breaker, showing a character stood in a junkyard.

But, Hyper Light Breaker is a game that rewards patience and careful planning more than anything else.

So, before each run, see to it youre armed with the proper intel.

Here are some early game tips and tricks for beginners to double-check your breaker survives as long as possible.

One of the characters in Hyper Light Breaker standing in the hub world, known as the Cursed Outpost.

Currently, Hyper Light Breaker is in Early Access.

At the start of play,however, not all of it is unlocked.

Two vendors are not availableat the beginning.

The inventory UI screen in Hyper Light Breaker showing various weapons and other upgrades.

Reference the below table to see who these vendors are and what they can do.

It may seem like a low priority early on.

Usually, within one full cycle, youll be starting from scratch.

The map showing various items and locations in Hyper Light Breaker.

Think carefully about when you want to purchase and use certain gearfrom vendors.

But, you shouldnt hold onto things for too long.Use it or lose itanyway!

Blade

Melee Weapon

Improved Blades with unique abilities.

The main character of Hyper Light Breaker going for a medigem, a green glowing plant.

Utility

Resource

Health, Holobytes and other resources are usually found near this icon.

Equipment

Items like Cores, Brightblood, keys and more can be found here.

Stash

Typically items like Materials are found here or even keys.

One of the main vendors, an animal-like blacksmith in Hyper Light Breaker.

Oftentimes,prisms are locked behind doorsthat require keys.

Or other times, they are swarmed with the deadliest of enemies youll find on the map.

Youll most likely want tospend some time exploringbefore you start hunting for prismsimmediately.

Game art from Hyper Light Drifter.

Spend Time Looking For Medigems

Medigems are an important resourcein the Overgrowth.

Especially at the start of the game,healing is hard to come by.

Sometimes enemies will drop health, but usually its only a +5 to your overall HP.

The extraction screen and arena, a purple glowing pad, in Hyper Light Breaker.

Medigems are small plant-like objectsin the Overgrowth.

Just verify you have the medkit capacity firstby upgrading your storage in The Cursed Outpost.

And oftentimes, things like weapons or prisms are guarded by tons of enemies.

One of the vendors and upgrade screens in Hyper Light Breaker.

However, its also worth taking the time toexplore other locations like Vendorswhich sell a variety of resources.

Here are justsome of the things Vendors can sell.

This one depends a lot on personal skills.

One of the breakers in Hyper Light Breaker using the purple, glowing Telipad in the Hub World.

Extracting assures that you hold onto itemsfor longer,and that you dont lose a lifein your cycle.

However, when you extract,youll have to contend with a few waves of enemies.

So, if you think you could extract with minimal health, youre running the risk of dying anyway.

Drifter Ability Split Image Feature

If your run is not going well, extract earlierrather than laterto preserve resources and lives.

Shell offer you the chance to reactivate the Telipadfor a certain number of resources.

Early on,this is almost never worth it.

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As mentioned before, theseresources carry over and can be converted into permanent upgrades.

Wait until youve got more permanent upgradesand a few boss victories under your belt before reactivating the Telipad.

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