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The Drifter
Jul 17, 2025·98% positive·Rising·
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A Pulp Adventure Thriller - A murdered drifter awakens. Alive again, seconds before his death. Hunted and haunted, help him untangle a mad web of conspiracy in this fast-paced point 'n click thrill-ride.
Best games like The Drifter
The best games like The Drifter are Hyper Light Drifter, Dead Synchronicity: Tomorrow Comes Today, Transient: Extended Edition, Lacuna, and Super Drift Blade. GAMESLIKE ranks these alternatives using shared gameplay metadata, Steam review sentiment, and similarity signals. Evidence includes 98% positive across 5k Steam reviews, Steam genre and tag overlap across Indie, Adventure, platform support for Windows, macOS, and Linux, and $15.99 pricing signal.
- Hyper Light Drifter - Hyper Light Drifter is closely similar to The Drifter because both are Indie and Adventure games, and share gameplay elements like Pixel Graphics, Sci-fi, 2D, Adventure.
- Dead Synchronicity: Tomorrow Comes Today - Dead Synchronicity: Tomorrow Comes Today is closely similar to The Drifter because both are Indie and Adventure games, and share gameplay elements like Point & Click, Story Rich, Mystery, Horror.
- Transient: Extended Edition - Transient: Extended Edition is closely similar to The Drifter because both are Indie and Adventure games, and share gameplay elements like Story Rich, Investigation, Mystery, Sci-fi.
- Lacuna - Lacuna is loosely similar to The Drifter because both are Indie and Adventure games, and share gameplay elements like Pixel Graphics, Story Rich, Investigation, Thriller.
- Super Drift Blade - Super Drift Blade is closely similar to The Drifter because both are Indie and Adventure games, and share gameplay elements like Story Rich, 2D, Adventure, Time Manipulation.
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About The DrifterShow moreShow less
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A Pulp Adventure Thriller from the minds that brought you Peridium and Crawl.
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An engrossing roller-coaster of a story- Drawing on King, Crichton and Carpenter, with a dash of 70s Aussie grindhouse.
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Point 'n Click or Controller- Unique twin-stick controls make The Drifter as comfy to play on the couch as at your PC.
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Bursting with raw crunchy pixel art and high-impact animation.
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Professionally voice acted, with a brooding dark-synth cinematic score.
Mick Carter's been drifting a while now- moving from job to job, never staying one place long. Jumping a box-car to his old home town, he witnesses a violent murder, is pursued by hi-tech soldiers, thrown in a reservoir and drowned.
And that's just the start of Mick's problems.
His consciousness ripped away, thrust back into his own body seconds before his death...
Framed for the killing he witnessed, tormented by his own past, and haunted by the feeling that something followed him back from the other side...
Follow Mick as he's sucked headfirst into a lunatic web of shadowy corporations, murder, and the thousand-year obsession of a madman.
The Drifter is our take on a classic 2d point and click adventure, with the brake-lines cut. The focus is on fast-paced storytelling, with puzzle-solving being the glue that ties it together. Mick's a practical guy, and so puzzles are down-to-earth too, designed to be unobtrusive, and give an investigative feel.
We're keeping the pacing quick and lean, you'll never be wandering around lost or confused- Mick is propelled through the story at a good clip, from one situation to another, with barely a moment to catch his breath. One minute you'll be crafting a Molotov cocktail from a bottle of over-proof rum, the next interrogating a crooked neurosurgeon before swinging from a high-rise window by a fraying extension lead.
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