Video games love a likeable hero. If you’re going to be spending dozens of hours unraveling their stories, it makes sense that you’d want a protagonist you can look up to. You don’t play as a lot of characters who skip out on their families when they need them and only begrudgingly attend their own mother’s funeral, which is just one way a new point-and-click adventure on PC feels like nothing else I’ve ever played.
The Drifter got a July 17 release date earlier this year, a mere eight years after its development began. That’s a long time for any game to spend in the oven, but it’s clearly paid off for developer Powerhoof, as The Drifter is a phenomenal, unique adventure that’s wriggled its way deep into my brain since I first started playing.
