![]() Items can also come with modifiers, which can be extremely beneficial to you during your missions, or which can also come with negative effects. Still, each ship has three main stats that you can upgrade, including Structure, which affects your health and armor Navigation, which is correlated to your health and firepower and Power, which also corresponds to your health and skill power.Įach ship can be outfitted with items from eight different categories, with these being armor plates, engines, thrusters, energy cells, shields, cpu’s, helmets and weapons. These include the Interceptor, a fast ship that packs heavy firepower at the cost of low damage resistance the Marauder, which is sort of the in between ship class, which features moderate resistance and firepower and the Sentinel, which can take quite the beating at the expense of mobility. The game offers three different ship classes, each with their own unique stats, strengths and weaknesses. As you play, you’ll come across various pickups, which can go from simple health and energy pickups, to rare and unique items that you can equip. However, despite the fact that, at first, Drifting Lands might look like just any other game in its genre, the game has a strong focus on loot. The core gameplay loop is, as mentioned above, played in the form of a side scrolling shoot’em’up. Other than that, you’ll be seeing text dialogue between characters that you’ll meet throughout the game. Now, remnants of Humankind fight for survival against corporations that turned into totalitarian states, and you’re part of one particular group of survivors that lives aboard the Ark, a massive ship that does their best to survive in this post-apocalyptic scenario. Basically there was this worldwide catastrophic event that shattered the planet into several pieces, thus creating the Drifting Lands. ![]() The game does provide a rather concise introductory scene that presents you to the game world. ![]() In terms of story and narrative the game doesn’t offer much sadly. These two elements together make up for very compelling gameplay loop that has the potential to bring in people that normally wouldn’t be fans of a game with these characteristics. In essence, Drifting Lands is a brilliant mixture of elements from different genres, on one side it has the core gameplay of a shoot’em’up, and on the other it has the loot focus characteristic of a hack and slash or an action rpg. This is the second game from Alkemi to be released on Steam, but this time around they bring in a very different game than their first title, Transcripted. Drifting Lands was released early last month on Steam after being on Steam’s Early Access program.
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