The 1990s are remembered as a golden age of point-and-click adventure games, thanks in large part to LucasArts’ incredible run of releases like Full Throttle, Day of the Tentacle, and The Secret of Monkey Island. The genre has since fallen from its pedestal, but it hasn’t disappeared entirely. Point-and-click games will never dominate the industry again, but they never went away either, and they’re having a renaissance if you know where to look.
One of the more eye-catching adventure games of this era is The Drifter. Developed by Powerhoof, creator of co-op RPG Crawl and the absurd sports game Regular Human Basketball, The Drifter has been in production in some form since 2017. After a few years of plucking away at the game as a side project, Powerhoof says it shifted into full development in 2021, and it’s finally announced a release date: July 17. Even better, The Drifter has a new demo available on Steam now.
