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Hunted after witnessing a murder, Mick Carter investigates a conspiracy and solves point-and-click puzzles as death sends him back seconds.
Released 17 Jul 2025
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A Pulp Adventure Thriller - A murdered drifter awakens. Alive again, seconds before his death. Hunted and haunted, help him untangle a mad web of conspiracy in this fast-paced point 'n click thrill-ride.
Developed by Powerhoof, Dave Lloyd · Published by Powerhoof
Mick Carter, a drifter returning to his hometown, witnesses a murder and becomes a target himself. After dying, he wakes seconds before his death, caught in a mystery involving missing people, armed pursuers, and his troubled past.
Explore locations, examine and collect objects, use items to overcome obstacles, and question people to uncover leads. Practical puzzles and investigative conversations move Mick from one dangerous situation to the next.
Death can return Mick to the moments before a fatal event, letting you learn from what happened and try another approach. The story unfolds across chapters, with a goals and leads log to help track your next steps.
In this helpfulness-selected sample, players often praise the brisk, suspenseful story, strong voice performances, atmospheric pixel art and music, and puzzles they find logical and integrated with the narrative. Some reviewers instead find the later plot too convoluted, certain timed death sequences repetitive, or puzzle solutions occasionally hard to anticipate; others feel the puzzles are too easy.
A Pulp Adventure Thriller from the minds that brought you Peridium and Crawl.
An engrossing roller-coaster of a story- Drawing on King, Crichton and Carpenter, with a dash of 70s Aussie grindhouse.
Point 'n Click or Controller- Unique twin-stick controls make The Drifter as comfy to play on the couch as at your PC.
Bursting with raw crunchy pixel art and high-impact animation.
Professionally voice acted, with a brooding dark-synth cinematic score.
Mick Carter's been drifting a while now- moving from job to job, never staying one place long. Jumping a box-car to his old home town, he witnesses a violent murder, is pursued by hi-tech soldiers, thrown in a reservoir and drowned.
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 killing he witnessed, tormented by his own past, and haunted by the feeling that something followed him back from the other side...
Follow Mick as he's sucked headfirst into a lunatic web of shadowy corporations, murder, and the thousand-year obsession of a madman.
The Drifter is our take on a classic 2d point and click adventure, with the brake-lines cut. The focus is on fast-paced storytelling, with puzzle-solving being the glue that ties it together. Mick's a practical guy, and so puzzles are down-to-earth too, designed to be unobtrusive, and give an investigative feel.
We're keeping the pacing 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. One minute you'll be crafting a Molotov cocktail from a bottle of over-proof rum, the next interrogating a crooked neurosurgeon before swinging from a high-rise window by a fraying extension lead.
| Platforms | Windows, macOS, Linux |
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| Achievements | 18 |
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| Controller support | PlayStation, Xbox |
| Controller required | No |
| DLC / extras | 1 listed on Steam |
| Metacritic | 84/100 View on Metacritic |
| Website | Official website |
