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Subscribe to the world's #1 PC gaming mag Try a single issue or save on a subscription Issues delivered straight to your door or device From£35.99View PC Gaming Show Computex 2025 TES4: Oblivion Elden Ring: Nightreign Recommended reading Promising '90s style point-and-clicker Rosewater rides out today, featuring trail-worn cowpoke authors and weird alt-universe science My new most anticipated RPG let me be a kleptomaniac gourmand set loose in a noir city on a quest to make 'the perfect sandwich' Peppered: an existential platformer is a game that'll make you pay not just for your choices, but your sucky platforming skills, too The next game from the creator of Hyper Light Drifter is a Toonami-core anime throwback set in one of the most interesting Metroid-style worlds I've seen in a while Animal Use Protocol's dysfunctional chimp-rat alliance drags the Stasis series into a horrible new first-person era White Knuckle is a grimy, Buckshot Roulette-looking game about fast-climbing your way out of industrial hell, and I can't put its demo down Repose's demo is short, but this 2D horror game is already feeling like something out of Severance The Drifter is a grimy point 'n' click adventure mixing bleak sci-fi with low-budget Aussie schlock, and there's a demo out now Shaun Prescott 29 May 2025 From the creators of Crawl. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The Drifter - Release Date Trailer - YouTube Point 'n' click adventurers eat well in 2025: every week there's at least a couple of interesting ones released on Steam, like last week's Kathy Rain 2, or the week before that, Neon Hearts City. Despite my wishlist bulging with these things, I'm especially excited about The Drifter. Developed by Powerhoof, the studio responsible for Crawl and Peridium, The Drifter is a gritty, seedy take on the works of "King, Crichton and Carpenter", leavened with the ocker ruthlessness of Ozploitation cinema (don't know what that is? Start here). The protagonist suffers severe bad luck: he's a directionness itinerant who happens to witness a grizzly murder. Being the sole witness, he's naturally hunted down and killed by the "hi-tech" executioners. Pretty bad, yes, but at least he's dead and his suffering is over. Alas! He is then brought back to life and framed for the original murder. You may like Promising '90s style point-and-clicker Rosewater rides out today, featuring trail-worn cowpoke authors and weird alt-universe science My new most anticipated RPG let me be a kleptomaniac gourmand set loose in a noir city on a quest to make 'the perfect sandwich' Peppered: an existential platformer is a game that'll make you pay not just for your choices, but your sucky platforming skills, too The pixel art perfectly captures the miserable world of the protagonist. It's murky, chunky, depressive, and as fascinated with urban blight as Escape From New York or Bad Boy Bubby. And what would a narrative adventure inspired by '70s and '80s pulp be if it didn't swerve awkwardly into conspiratorial paranoia? "Follow Mick as he's sucked headfirst into a lunatic web of shadowy corporations, murder, and the thousand-year obsession of a madman," reads the Steam description. The Drifter promises to be "quick and lean". Powerhoof insists that "you'll never be wandering around lost or confused", which is a sacred point 'n' click experience that, understandably, newer players don't love so much. It also has two controller schemes: one is a fairly conventional point-at-this, click-on-it scenario, but there's also a twin-stick approach that makes a lot of sense if you try it out. Which you can: there's a demo on Steam right now, ahead of The Drifter's full release on July 18. The biggest gaming news, reviews and hardware deals Keep up to date with the most important stories and the best deals, as picked by the PC Gamer team. Contact me with news and offers from other Future brandsReceive email from us on behalf of our trusted partners or sponsorsBy submitting your information you agree to the Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy and are aged 16 or over. 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