The Drifter

The Drifter

Fair · Narrative · 2025

The verdict

NO RUSH.

Fair at $19.99. Buy it if you want it.

Reviews
98% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Price
$19.99
as of Oct 1
Reviews
98%
4,920 reviews, as of Sep 27
Metacritic
84
critic score
Released
2025
Length + $/hr
No data
no length in our data yet

Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, DX10, DX11, and DX12-capable GPUs, 4 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.

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.
Description from the Steam store page.

What drives the score

How to read this

Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work

What we assumed
  • How long it takes to beat isn't in our data. The score is docked for the missing length.
Raising the score
Reviews98% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 97% after the small-sample adjustment
Holding it back
Length unknownNo verified $/hr
No length in our data yet, so the biggest driver can't be verified. A heavy dock until it is
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds5 of 411 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

The value story

The lowest price on record is $15.99, set in January 2026. It has been discounted 9 times in the 15 months tracked here, typically at 20 percent off, with about 7 weeks between sales.

Against its own genre it lands in the top 10 percent on value. It is pricier than 89 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. It scores the same as Riven, which costs $34.99. This one is $19.99.

84 from critics against 98 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.

5 of the 411 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written July 2025 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 84 percent of the 127 reviews written there were positive, against 98 percent overall, and those are 3 percent of everything written about it.

Players

5 players online when we last checked, on Sep 29, 05:52 UTC.

Player counts from the Steam Web API.

No data upstream: achievement curve (Steam global achievements).

Cite this score

BANG Score badge
The Drifter scores 60/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 2, 2026. Length is not in our data, so the score is docked. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1170570/the-drifter
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Reviews set the ceiling. With no length in our data, value sits at a neutral middle whatever the price, and the BANG Score is docked until a real length is known. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 27, price as of Oct 1.

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Critics vs players+14
Critics
84
Players
98
Player favorite. The critics underrated it.
Metacritic critics · 4,920 Steam player reviews

Details

DeveloperPowerhoof
PublisherPowerhoof
GenreNarrative
Released2025