Drifting Lands
Side-scrolling shooter with randomized loot and customizable ship builds
Alkemi · Released Jun 5, 2017
- Reviews
- Mostly Positive
- 75% of 229
- Recent reviews
- Not enough recent
- Players
- 0
- daily peak, Oct 30, 2026
- Steam Deck
- Untested
- Last update on Steam
- 8 years ago
- Feb 8, 2018
Metacritic: 71/100 (critic reviews)
What is Drifting Lands?
A single-player sci-fi action RPG built around horizontally scrolling spaceship battles. You shoot enemies in randomly generated missions and use powers such as dashes, area attacks, and time control. Three ship classes vary in damage and durability, with increasingly difficult missions testing both your piloting and your equipment choices.
For you if...
- +you enjoy matching equipment bonuses with active and passive powers
- +you like progressing through increasingly difficult shooting missions
Not for you if...
- −you want a shooter without inventory or build management
What players say
75% of 229 reviews are positive
Players praise the visuals and range of skills. The most common complaints concern repetitive missions and grinding for upgrades. Players also criticize the confusing interface and visual clutter that can make enemy fire hard to see.
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Drifting Lands system requirements
Minimum: Any, 2 GB RAM, 1 GB of disk space.
As published by the developer.
Can my PC run Drifting Lands?
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- OS
- Windows XP or Better
- Processor
- Anything for gaming bought in the past 2 or 3 years
- Graphics
- Any AMD/ATI or NVidia with more than 512Mo of DEDICATED RAM
- Memory
- 2 GB RAM
- Storage
- 1 GB available space
- DirectX
- Version 9.0c
- Notes
- Will most probably not work with Intel video cards
Recommended
- OS
- Windows 7 or 8
- Processor
- Intel Quad Processor
- Graphics
- Any powerful AMD/ATI or NVIDIA card with more than 512 of RAM
- Memory
- 4 GB RAM
- Storage
- 1 GB available space
- DirectX
- Version 9.0c
- Notes
- More fun with a pad though you can use your keyboard
Does Drifting Lands have co-op or multiplayer?
No: single-player only, no multiplayer modes declared.
Does Drifting Lands run on Steam Deck?
Untested Not yet tested by Valve on Steam Deck.
PC version details
- DRM
- None declared on Steam
- Controller
- Full controller support
- Platforms
- Windows, macOS
- Achievements
- 24
- Steam features
- Cloud saves, Family Sharing, Trading cards
- Languages
- Text only: English, French.
Does Drifting Lands use AI-generated content?
No AI-generated content is disclosed on the game's Steam page.
Self-reported by the developer under Steam rules: it covers AI content that ships in the game, not tools used to make it. Steam page checked on Oct 27, 2026. How to filter AI games on Steam
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Recent updates
- Feb 8, 2018 · An update... and some news
- Feb 8, 2018 · An update... and some news
- Jun 29, 2017 · Minor Fix
- Jun 29, 2017 · Minor Fix
- Jun 23, 2017 · Weekly Patch !
