{"id":1254901,"date":"2026-03-02T01:54:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T01:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/MrGB4eNWh9ReDihxVCAVka"},"modified":"2026-03-02T01:54:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T01:54:12","slug":"the-drifter-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/the-drifter-review\/","title":{"rendered":"The Drifter review"},"content":{"rendered":"<article>\n<div class=\"fancy-box\">\n<div class=\"fancy_box-title\">Need to know<\/div>\n<div class=\"fancy_box_body\">\n<p class=\"fancy-box__body-text\"><strong>What is it? <\/strong>A point &#8216;n&#8217; click &#8220;pulp adventure thriller&#8221; with true grit.<br \/><strong>Release date <\/strong>July 18, 2025<br \/><strong>Expect to pay<\/strong> TBC<br \/><strong>Developer<\/strong> Powerhoof, Dave Lloyd<br \/><strong>Publisher<\/strong> Powerhoof<br \/><strong>Reviewed on<\/strong> RTX 3060 (laptop), Ryzen 5 5600H, 16GB RAM<br \/><strong>Steam Deck <\/strong>Officially &#8220;unknown&#8221;, but it runs brilliantly<br \/><strong>Link <\/strong><a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/1170570\/The_Drifter\/\">Steam<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>We meet Mick Carter as a homeless drifter. Due to some unspecified past trauma, he\u2019s abandoned his settled domestic life in a nameless Australian city for a self-flagellating transient existence. He\u2019s en route to home, where he\u2019s been beckoned to attend his mother\u2019s funeral. He does so reluctantly, because it draws him closer to a past he\u2019s deliberately abandoned.<\/p>\n<p>Shit hits the fan immediately. Not only is Mick forcibly ejected from his train carriage by a mysterious, possibly supernatural presence, but he\u2019s then framed for the murder of a homeless man in the seedy railway underpass he finds himself in. At first, The Drifter promises to be a dark character study wrapped in a murder mystery, but it proves to be more\u2014alas, to its detriment.<\/p>\n<p>The Drifter bills itself as a \u201cpulp adventure thriller\u201d and it wastes no time living up to that descriptor. Carter is a depressive but nevertheless oddly calm protagonist, with a familiar\u2014if somewhat antiquated\u2014Australian matter-of-factness about him. He\u2019s downcast, but not entirely ruined. In fact, when a hi-tech conspiracy begins to loom he proves quite resourceful: The Drifter\u2019s point-and-click trappings generally demand MacGyver-like logic, which is to say, an ability to use mundane objects to solve seemingly insurmountable problems.<\/p>\n<p>But The Drifter has quieter, ostensibly more complex ambitions. At first the world presents as a richly down-at-heel urban sprawl. Its lavishly illustrated environs are a potent combination of John Carpenter blight (think They Live, Escape From New York) with film noir tactics. Powerhoof&#8217;s pixel art strives towards a painterly, oddly curvaceous semi-realism, darkness and undulating shadows rendering a bleak and forbidding world that still manages to be tastefully colourful and varied. The way Powerhoof frames many of The Drifter\u2019s exterior urban expanses within impermeable darkness lend them the mood of fascinating, sickly dioramas.<\/p>\n<p>The studio has a distinctive approach to pixel art, which is no small feat. It doesn\u2019t rely on the innate charm of the style; it has a certain wobbly, slightly surreal exaggeration to it. This is a very different game from <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/crawl\/\"><u>Crawl<\/u><\/a>, but it\u2019s immediately obvious that it comes from the same team.<\/p>\n<div class=\"inlinegallery carousel-layout\">\n<div class=\"inlinegallery-wrap\" style=\"display:flex; flex-flow:row nowrap;\">\n<div class=\"inlinegallery-item\" style=\"flex: 0 0 auto;\"><span class=\"slidecount\">Image 1 of 4<\/span><\/p>\n<figure class=\"van-image-figure \" data-bordeaux-image-check >\n<div class='image-full-width-wrapper'>\n<div class='image-widthsetter' style=\"max-width:1280px;\">\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:62.50%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"4K3nEwy54CmWRHzd7u3CLV\" name=\"The Drifter\" alt=\"A screenshot of The Drifter, showing the protagonist in a grimy urban environment\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/the-drifter-review.jpg\" mos=\"\" link=\"\" align=\"\" fullscreen=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"800\" attribution=\"\" endorsement=\"\" class=\"\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption itemprop=\"caption description\" class=\"\"><span class=\"credit\" itemprop=\"copyrightHolder\">(Image credit: Powerhoof)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"inlinegallery-item\" style=\"flex: 0 0 auto;\"><span class=\"slidecount\">Image 2 of 4<\/span><\/p>\n<figure class=\"van-image-figure \" data-bordeaux-image-check >\n<div class='image-full-width-wrapper'>\n<div class='image-widthsetter' style=\"max-width:2560px;\">\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:56.25%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"46UzRc5QWcd4fzwWwrxNp\" name=\"20230920112400_1.jpg\" alt=\"Two homeless men talk by a burning bin\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/the-drifter-review-1.jpg\" mos=\"\" link=\"\" align=\"\" fullscreen=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1440\" attribution=\"\" endorsement=\"\" class=\"\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption itemprop=\"caption description\" class=\"\"><span class=\"credit\" itemprop=\"copyrightHolder\">(Image credit: Powerhoof)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"inlinegallery-item\" style=\"flex: 0 0 auto;\"><span class=\"slidecount\">Image 3 of 4<\/span><\/p>\n<figure class=\"van-image-figure \" data-bordeaux-image-check >\n<div class='image-full-width-wrapper'>\n<div class='image-widthsetter' style=\"max-width:1280px;\">\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:62.50%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"sYieMUmpDdJD7ga9iFB4NV\" name=\"The Drifter\" alt=\"A screenshot of The Drifter, showing the protagonist in a grimy urban environment\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/the-drifter-review-2.jpg\" mos=\"\" link=\"\" align=\"\" fullscreen=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"800\" attribution=\"\" endorsement=\"\" class=\"\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption itemprop=\"caption description\" class=\"\"><span class=\"credit\" itemprop=\"copyrightHolder\">(Image credit: Powerhoof)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"inlinegallery-item\" style=\"flex: 0 0 auto;\"><span class=\"slidecount\">Image 4 of 4<\/span><\/p>\n<figure class=\"van-image-figure \" data-bordeaux-image-check >\n<div class='image-full-width-wrapper'>\n<div class='image-widthsetter' style=\"max-width:1280px;\">\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:62.50%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"LyYAWtE24WYraNHVctaHNV\" name=\"The Drifter\" alt=\"A screenshot of The Drifter, showing the protagonist in a grimy urban environment\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/the-drifter-review-3.jpg\" mos=\"\" link=\"\" align=\"\" fullscreen=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"800\" attribution=\"\" endorsement=\"\" class=\"\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption itemprop=\"caption description\" class=\"\"><span class=\"credit\" itemprop=\"copyrightHolder\">(Image credit: Powerhoof)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Drifter is a joy to behold and interact with. The studio\u2019s approach to urban noir is more traditional compared to the haunted modern listlessness of Norco&#8217;s flyover suburbia, for example, but despite the familiarity of a seedy train underpass, or the offices of a dubious tabloid, or a skyline-lit nighttime graveyard, there\u2019s something forbiddingly melancholy about the opening hours. It\u2019s magnetically downcast. But the places I visit vary widely as the story progresses, and the oppressive, noir-ish melancholy flounders as the story moves on.<\/p>\n<p>The point-and-click elements are familiar. Puzzles tend to boil down to executing actions in the right order, combining found objects to make a jury-rigged tool, or compelling certain events to occur to accommodate my objectives. Powerhoof has devised a clever user interface that takes a lot of the tedious guesswork out while also providing ample information about present circumstances, lest one lose (or forget from one session to the next) their way. Lateral thinking is still the order of the day\u2014of course you&#8217;d use a small metal tag, retrieved from a bowl, to unscrew a vent!\u2014though problem-solving is generally conducted linearly: there\u2019s no way to be more clever than the prescribed sequence of interactions.<\/p>\n<p>Which is fine, because The Drifter is proud to be a point-and-click adventure; it\u2019s not messing with a format it clearly adores. If anything, it only wants to make it less obtuse and more welcoming.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fancy-box\">\n<div class=\"fancy_box-title\">Best of the best<\/div>\n<div class=\"fancy_box_body\">\n<figure class=\"van-image-figure \" >\n<div class='image-full-width-wrapper'>\n<div class='image-widthsetter' >\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:56.25%;\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"QJ7JHgYv6WEL9dHitak4vS\" name=\"BG3 Dark Urge.png\" caption=\"\" alt=\"The Dark Urge, from Baldur's Gate 3, looks towards his accursed claws with self-disdain.\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/the-drifter-review.png\" mos=\"\" link=\"\" align=\"\" fullscreen=\"\" width=\"\" height=\"\" attribution=\"\" endorsement=\"\" class=\"pinterest-pin-exclude\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption itemprop=\"caption description\" class=\"\"><span class=\"credit\" itemprop=\"copyrightHolder\">(Image credit: Larian Studios)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"fancy-box__body-text\"><a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/new-games-2025-upcoming-pc-release-schedule\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>2025 games<\/strong><\/a>: Upcoming releases<strong><br \/><\/strong><a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/the-best-pc-games\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Best PC games<\/strong><\/a>: All-time favorites<br \/><a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/the-50-best-free-pc-games\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Free PC games<\/strong><\/a>: Freebie fest<br \/><a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/best-fps-games\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Best FPS games<\/strong><\/a>: Finest gunplay<br \/><a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/best-rpgs-of-all-time\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Best RPGs<\/strong><\/a>: Grand adventures<br \/><a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/the-best-co-op-games\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Best co-op games<\/strong><\/a>: Better together<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Drifter is a finely wrought point \u2018n\u2019 click adventure on a mechanical level, with gorgeous art\u2014and the latter cannot be over-emphasised\u2014but its pulp tendencies sit a bit askew from some of its more severe themes. The devastating source of Carter\u2019s jiltedness rubs awkwardly against the high concept sci-fi narrative, which of course involves time travel, albeit towards bleaker ends than the usual \u201cjust one more chance\u201d fantasy. Whereas some might want to revisit the past to make good on some otherwise irrevocable failure or shortcoming, Carter just wants to <em>forget <\/em>his past; he doesn\u2019t want to optimize, he wants to erase, all the better to negate the pain he\u2019s failed to live with.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a refreshingly ruthless, refreshingly human, framing of regret, but as The Drifter moves into labyrinthine sci-fi territory, and as its strands coil around a conspiracy much larger than Carter\u2019s circumstances, the game loses sight of the emotional stakes in favour of the procedural unfolding of wily mad scientist baloney. As the story progressed, I felt more and more remote from Mick Carter.<\/p>\n<p>To Powerhoof\u2019s credit\u2014and there\u2019s a genuine ambition here\u2014this partial failure has a lot to do with the limitations of genre conventions; within the strictures of a loosely side-scrolling and panned out presentation, the subtleties other mediums could use to squeeze feeling out of Carter\u2014expressions, posture etcetera\u2014aren&#8217;t available. Once we\u2019ve left the forbidding, narrowed-in cityscapes in favour of more outlandish \u201cpulpish\u201d environs there are fewer opportunities to feel as if we\u2019re commandeering a genuinely shaken character; Carter turns into a fish-out-of-water problem solving avatar with depressive posture. Under these circumstances the emotional impact of his plight is blunted. As a sci-fi thriller, The Drifter is rote.<\/p>\n<div class=\"inlinegallery carousel-layout\">\n<div class=\"inlinegallery-wrap\" style=\"display:flex; flex-flow:row nowrap;\">\n<div class=\"inlinegallery-item\" style=\"flex: 0 0 auto;\"><span class=\"slidecount\">Image 1 of 3<\/span><\/p>\n<figure class=\"van-image-figure \" data-bordeaux-image-check >\n<div class='image-full-width-wrapper'>\n<div class='image-widthsetter' style=\"max-width:1280px;\">\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:62.50%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"4qMYHq97CiNY27ZKZWSsMV\" name=\"The Drifter\" alt=\"A screenshot of The Drifter, showing the protagonist in a grimy urban environment\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/the-drifter-review-4.jpg\" mos=\"\" link=\"\" align=\"\" fullscreen=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"800\" attribution=\"\" endorsement=\"\" class=\"\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption itemprop=\"caption description\" class=\"\"><span class=\"credit\" itemprop=\"copyrightHolder\">(Image credit: Powerhoof)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"inlinegallery-item\" style=\"flex: 0 0 auto;\"><span class=\"slidecount\">Image 2 of 3<\/span><\/p>\n<figure class=\"van-image-figure \" data-bordeaux-image-check >\n<div class='image-full-width-wrapper'>\n<div class='image-widthsetter' style=\"max-width:1280px;\">\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:62.50%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"TB294Ch7Zwvufn8cwKZ9LV\" name=\"The Drifter\" alt=\"A screenshot of The Drifter, showing the protagonist in a grimy urban environment\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/the-drifter-review-5.jpg\" mos=\"\" link=\"\" align=\"\" fullscreen=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"800\" attribution=\"\" endorsement=\"\" class=\"\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption itemprop=\"caption description\" class=\"\"><span class=\"credit\" itemprop=\"copyrightHolder\">(Image credit: Powerhoof)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"inlinegallery-item\" style=\"flex: 0 0 auto;\"><span class=\"slidecount\">Image 3 of 3<\/span><\/p>\n<figure class=\"van-image-figure \" data-bordeaux-image-check >\n<div class='image-full-width-wrapper'>\n<div class='image-widthsetter' style=\"max-width:1280px;\">\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:62.50%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"eVdBm53YQoT7kvDzKZVJLV\" name=\"The Drifter\" alt=\"A screenshot of The Drifter, showing the protagonist in a grimy urban environment\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/the-drifter-review-6.jpg\" mos=\"\" link=\"\" align=\"\" fullscreen=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"800\" attribution=\"\" endorsement=\"\" class=\"\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption itemprop=\"caption description\" class=\"\"><span class=\"credit\" itemprop=\"copyrightHolder\">(Image credit: Powerhoof)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>There\u2019s also the weird tonal inconsistency of the supporting characters, such as Hara, a strangely disinterested investigator who unaccountably morphs into a sidekick figure, and a reporter whose involvement in the unfurling complexity feels increasingly superfluous, not to mention the more intimately involved characters Carter reacquaints with, who are quick to forgive his fleeing.<\/p>\n<p>Can a point-and-click adventure be good if its story doesn&#8217;t stick the landing? Powerhoof\u2019s sublime art direction and sensitivity to mood give it immense potential to tell stories like this without resorting to potboiler cliche, and the studio&#8217;s approach to UI and puzzle design is impeccable. The Drifter is a great piece of design, but it needed to avoid the easy shelter of pulp to be a fully captivating adventure.<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/adventure\/the-drifter-review\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Need to know What is it? A point &#8216;n&#8217; click &#8220;pulp adventure thriller&#8221; with true grit.Release date July 18, 2025Expect to pay TBCDeveloper Powerhoof, Dave LloydPublisher PowerhoofReviewed on RTX 3060 (laptop), Ryzen 5 5600H, 16GB RAMSteam Deck Officially &#8220;unknown&#8221;, but it runs brilliantlyLink Steam We meet Mick Carter as a homeless drifter. Due to some unspecified past trauma, he\u2019s abandoned his settled domestic life in a nameless Australian city for a self-flagellating transient existence. He\u2019s en route to home, where he\u2019s been beckoned to attend his mother\u2019s funeral. He does so reluctantly, because it draws him closer to a past he\u2019s deliberately abandoned. Shit hits the fan immediately. 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