The Drifter is an upcoming Point & Click Adventure with murderous story-rich elements.
The Drifter is a new game being developed and published by Powerhoof with a free Demo now available on Steam.
Powerhoof is an Australian game studio that has developed other titles, including “Crawl,” “Regular Human Basketball”, “The Telwynium,” and the horror game “Peridium.”
The Drifter is not your average Point & Click adventure. This game is fast-paced and has elements of murder and mayhem.
The storyline follows Mick Carter who has been drifting for a while, never staying in one place for long and hopping from one job to another.
He was forced to return to his hometown, where he found himself a witness to a brutal murder. Soon after, he became the target of mysterious armed men and met a tragic end.
But that was just the beginning of Mick’s troubles. Suddenly, his consciousness was ripped away, thrust back into his own body just moments before his demise.
Now, framed for the murder he had witnessed, tormented by his own past, and haunted by the eerie sense that something had followed him back from the other side.
We accompany Mick as he gets entangled in a bewildering web of secretive corporations, homicide, and the obsessive quest of a deranged individual spanning a millennium.
The studio itself had this to say about the game:
“The Drifter is our fast-paced take on a classic 2D point-and-click adventure. Taking cues from the recent revival of the genre, the focus is on story with puzzle solving being the glue that ties it together. Mick’s a pretty practical guy, and so puzzles are down-to-earth, designed to be unobtrusive and give an investigative feel.
We’re keeping the pacing is 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.”
Dave Lloyd, the programmer/designer of Powerhoof, drew inspiration from the works of John Carpenter, David Cronenberg, Michael Crichton, and Stephen King for “The Drifter.”
Playing as Mick Carter, the titular drifter, you find yourself back in your hometown for a funeral, embroiled in an inexplicable situation. While there’s a murder to solve, a deeper mystery looms.
In true Stephen King fashion, “The Drifter” has a supernatural element, with Carter appearing to return from the dead but not without bringing something back with him from the other side.
The system specifications are as follows:
Windows:
Minimum:
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS: Windows XP (sp2) or later
- Processor: 2.8 GHz Dual Core Processor or equivalent
- Memory: 2 GB RAM
- Graphics: NVIDIA since 2006 (GeForce 8), AMD since 2006 (Radeon HD 2000), Intel since 2012 (HD 4000 / IvyBridge)
- DirectX: Version 10
- Storage: 4 GB available space
Recommended:
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
MacOS:
Minimum:
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS: Mac OS X 10.8 or later
- Processor: 2.8 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo or equivalent
- Memory: 2 GB RAM
- Graphics: OpenGL 3.2+ support (2.1 with ARB extensions acceptable)
- Storage: 4 GB available space
Recommended:
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
SteamOS + Linux:
Minimum:
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS: Ubuntu – glibc 2.15+, 32/64-bit
- Processor: 2.8 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo or equivalent
- Memory: 3 GB RAM
- Graphics: OpenGL 3.2+ support (2.1 with ARB extensions acceptable)
- Storage: 3 GB available space
Recommended:
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
Official trailer for The Drifter:
The release date for the full game is still to be announced, but you can grab the free Demo and have a stab at the game now on Steam.