Drifter
A downloadable game for Windows
Story
You are a drifter. You've been endowed with powers from higher entities, enabling you to shift between dimensions in altered states of consciousness.
Unfortunately, a brutal alien death cult is holding you captive and conducting weird medical experiments on you. They aim to harness your abilities for their own ends.
Journey through this psychedelic, sci-fi, surrealist horror game where we explore the terror of the unknown, the power of dreams, and the horrifying fathoms of the human heart.
Gameplay
Drifter is an immersive, dialogue-driven first person experience with psychedelically dazzling lo-fi environments and effects. Interact via branching dialogue and explore surreal environments in this compacted, narrative-led adventure.
Content Warning: violence/blood, body horror, torture, flashing lights & loud noises.
Controls
- WASD - Movement
- Mouse and Left Click - Look and select dialogue
- E - interact
Credits
- ahintoflime / Russ - 3D Art, Level Design, Programming
- Polyhedra Games / Clipper - Narrative Design and UI, Game Design / Programming, Sound Implementation and Title Card Design
- Anwilc / Andreas - Game Design / Programming, Animations, Shaders
- SamACSmith / Sam - Sound/Audio/Music
Created in 2 weeks for the The DreadXP Extraterrestrial Terror Jam
Additional resources used: Pixel Crushers' Dialogue System for Unity, DOTween, Material Maker, Texture Town, Aspect Ratio Controller, Nature textures from Wolf Wraith, Photorealistic Texture Pack from Screaming Brain Studios, Skyboxes from Yuki2022 and Dogmatic. Royalty free images used from Pixabay for collage composite title card. Title font (FalturaAlien) from Mans Greback.
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I was attracted to the game at the first plot point.
The cells during the game, the exhilarating and psychedelic space afterwards, and the meaty fresh zone afterwards, all had a very good atmosphere and I was enthusiastic about it!
It was so much fun, nya~!
Awesome, thank you for playing the game! I really enjoyed watching your play-through.
Drifter had a delightfully mean and at times surreal take on the prompt. These are truly "alien" creatures you see and interact with, and I do like the sheer catharsis of the choice made by the end.
The game, however, is largely just dialogue with a wee bit of movement. This is understandable for a Jam game, naturally, but for such a cool idea, it'd be a lot more fun to actually get to ACTIVELY get some justice for what has been going on for you.
Still, I liked the idea of involving some kind of evil shadow government / alien cult in this. Very cool stuff and very distinct.
Thank you for playing! Glad you enjoyed it
Very good game
Nice! Thanks for posting a play through :)
awesome. I enjoyed watching your playthru 🙏
nice jobs
Hell yeah. Thanks for posting a play through!
awesome! thanks for sharing
This was weird and interesting game and game looks good so far but I really liked a lot and both ending really good well done keep it up!
Thanks for checking it out! Glad you liked it