The Drifter
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Release Date: Jul 17 2025
A Pulp Adventure Thriller from the minds that brought you Crawl, The Drifter is a fast-paced take on the point and click adventure. With stunningly animated pixel art, optimized both for mouse and gamepad with unique twin-stick controls, The Drifter is an engrossing roller-coaster of a story, drawing on King, Crichton and Carpenter, with a dash of 70s Ozpolitation.
Jumping a box-car back to his home town, Mick Carter is witness to a violent shooting, pursued by hi-tech soldiers, then thrown in a reservoir and drowned... And that's just the start of Mick's problems. Finding himself alive again, seconds before his death, Mick is sucked headfirst into a lunatic web of conspiracy, murder, and the thousand year obsession of a madman.
Powerhoof
Powerhoof is a two man independent games studio located in Melbourne, Australia. While both tinker in all aspects of game development, Barney Cumming is the preeminent artist and animator, and Dave Lloyd's background is in programming. Their first project was Crawl - The dungeon crawler where your friends control the monsters. This was followed up by Regular Human Basketball, a multiplayer party-starter (no giant mechanical death-machines here), as wells as a plethora of smaller free titles.
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The Drifter Brings Its Pulp Thriller Madness to Switch and Switch 2 Next Week
The Drifter, the pixel-art pulp adventure from Melbourne indie studio Powerhoof, launches on Nintendo Switch and Switch 2 on June 22. If you missed it when it hit Steam last July, this is your chance to play one of the best point-and-click adventures in years from the comfort of your couch.
