The Drifter

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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 of70 s 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 classic2 d 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

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