Driftwood
Fair · Action · 2025
The verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $13.99. Buy it if you want it.
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- 93% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Nvidia GeForce GTX 1060, 3 GB of storage. Windows only.
A game about high-speed downhill longboarding and a sloth named Eddy. Carve up the mountainside as you drift through the beautiful landscape, and find the perfect balance of speed and control.
What drives the score
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Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
- How long it takes to beat isn't in our data. We scored it as a typical Action game (about 6 hours) and docked the score for the missing length.
The value story
December 2023 is where it bottomed out, at $7.19. It has been discounted 24 times in the 3 years tracked here, typically at 30 percent off, with about 7 weeks between sales. Today's $13.99 at 30 percent off still sits 95 percent above the floor, so a deeper cut exists in its history.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 8 percent on value. It is pricier than 89 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 97 percent. It outscores the games it most resembles, including The Karters 2: Turbo Charged ($29.99, scores 49) and s&box ($9.99, scores 3).
Of the 386 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 10 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written June 2023 to August 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 8 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 3,221 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 738 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 83 percent of the 353 reviews written there were positive, against 93 percent overall, and those are 30 percent of everything written about it.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
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Driftwood scores 57/100 on the BANG Score (fair value). Length is estimated at 6 hours, not measured, so the score is docked. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2223700/driftwoodThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Aug 1, price as of Sep 23.
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