The Drifter
Power GloverThe digital man of the modern era.
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CMD (July-September 2026)
In this CMD, we will be talking about playing good-to-great remakes of classic games; we review some smaller games that won’t get big reviews here on The Drifter, and we get our first taste of a large selection of big titles coming out in S...
The Best “Indie” Games of the 2020’s (...So Far) - Vol. 1
Welcome to the official first volume of this new project! Couldn’t think of a snappy name for it… Oh, well. Here we go!!
10 Games! In every volume of this exercise, we will be talking about 10 of some of the very best indie games you c...
Knives Out (of Ideas)
I really love the box art for this game. There is something about that roughed-out, sketchy, artistic middle ground they struck here with the cover that really speaks to me. Shame this has a better character aesthetic for Wolverine than the...
Full Spectrum Wonder
Just… look at this game, man. This is a screenshot. Holy, space-cows…
5/5
Orbitals is incredible. It’s the rare game that looks perfect, plays just as good as it looks, and sounds amazing in every bit of gameplay. Every part of i...
“The Duskbloods”, Is FromSoftware’s Blank Check Experiment
This is Zork. He seems to be… (reads notes) an underwater welder of some kind?? Not quite sure what his deal is— but he seems to be the favored class from what I’ve heard from folks who have also played the test. I think that sharp beak is...
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