The Drifter
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…
The Drifter is an adventure developed by Powerhoof, released 17 July 2025 on Nintendo Switch, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What The Drifter is
The Drifter is an adventure game developed by Powerhoof and released in 2025. It is available on Nintendo Switch, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Mick Carter's been drifting a while now - never staying one place long, moving from job to job. Forced to return to his old home town, he witnesses a violent murder, is pursued by mysterious armed men, and killed. 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 murder he witnessed, tormented by his own past, and haunted by a feeling that something followed him back from the other side... Follow Mick as he's sucked headfirst into a mad web of shadowy corporations, murder, and the thousand year obsession of a madman.
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are mystery and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 18 achievements to unlock.
How it was received
The Drifter holds a critic score of 83 out of 100. That places it above 78% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2025 averaged 78, so it scored 5 points above the year average.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for X64 architecture with SSE2 instruction set support, 4 GB RAM and DX10, DX11, and DX12-capable GPUs. At 4GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 4GB.
What it launched against
The Drifter launched on 17 July 2025, within three weeks of Mafia: The Old Country, Death Stranding 2: On the Beach, Donkey Kong Bananza and Wuchang: Fallen Feathers. It reviewed better than 2 of the 4. It arrived 8 years into the Nintendo Switch's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Mafia: The Old Country, Death Stranding 2: On the Beach, Donkey Kong Bananza, Wuchang: Fallen Feathers.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for The Drifter yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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