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The Drifter

by Powerhoof

  • Released Jul 17, 2025
  • $19.99
  • 8 h to beat
  • Linux
  • Mac
  • Nintendo Switch
  • PC (Microsoft Windows)

97%positive reviews

4,895 positive126 negative

What players say

Pros

  • Excellent point-and-click adventure

  • Gripping story and good puzzles

Cons

  • Missing animations and hammy voices

  • Predictable and unexceptional

Mixed

  • Some call it a bar-raising adventure, others say it is a fairly unexceptional game

Media

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System requirements

Minimum:

Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system

OS: Windows 10 or later, 64-bit versions only

Processor: X64 architecture with SSE2 instruction set support

Memory: 4 GB RAM

Graphics: DX10, DX11, and DX12-capable GPUs

DirectX: Version 10

Storage: 4 GB available space

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The Drifter is a point-and-click adventure in the classic style. Taking cues from the second wave of the genre, there's an emphasis on story, with puzzle-solving being the glue that ties it together rather than the focus. Mick's a pretty practical guy, and so puzzles are down-to-earth, designed to…

Ratings

  • 80IGDB players14 ratings
  • 83Critics2 reviews
  • 81Overall16 scores

Time to beat

  • 8 hStory onlyto the credits
  • 8.5 hStory and extraswith side content
  • 9 hCompletionist100%

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English
French
German
Italian
Spanish (Spain)

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