Drifting Lands (2017) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Drifting Lands

Drifting Lands is an hybrid of classical horizontal shoot'em'up with a lot of strong gameplay elements coming straight from the hack & slash genre. Though Drifting Lands is still in development you can get a…

70 24 January 2017

What Drifting Lands is

Drifting Lands is an indie game developed by Alkemi and released in 2017. It is available on Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Drifting Lands is an hybrid of classical horizontal shoot'em'up with a lot of strong gameplay elements coming straight from the hack & slash genre. Though Drifting Lands is still in development you can get a taste of the game via the free demo which is regularly updated!

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

Its themes are action and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 24 achievements to unlock.

How it was received

Drifting Lands holds a critic score of 70 out of 100. That places it above 32% of the 5,098 rated indie games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2017 averaged 71, so it scored about average for its year.

What you need to run it

The minimum specification calls for Anything for gaming bought in the past 2 or 3 years, 2 GB RAM and Any AMD/ATI or NVidia with more than 512Mo of DEDICATED RAM. At 2GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 1GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.

Full requirements and PC checker →

What it launched against

Drifting Lands launched on 24 January 2017, within three weeks of Resident Evil 7: Biohazard, For Honor, Nioh and Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Resident Evil 7: Biohazard, For Honor, Nioh, Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony.

Drifting Lands — frequently asked questions

When did Drifting Lands come out?

Drifting Lands was released on 24 January 2017 for Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).

What are the minimum PC requirements for Drifting Lands?

At minimum, Drifting Lands needs Anything for gaming bought in the past 2 or 3 years, 2 GB RAM, Any AMD/ATI or NVidia with more than 512Mo of DEDICATED RAM graphics, 1 GB available space of storage.

How many GB is Drifting Lands?

The PC version needs about 1 GB of storage, going by the storage line in the system requirements ("1 GB available space"). Updates can add to that, and console versions have their own sizes, which are not listed here.

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