Powerhoof, the developer of excellent couch-competitive dungeon crawler, Crawl, has a new game in the works called The Drifter. It draws on the aesthetic it recreated from classic gaming for Crawl and creates an adventure game out of it, with a heavy focus on narrative and exposition.
Players take on the role the eponymous drifter who awakes from death mere moments before it occurs. The story then rolls out from there, encompassing film-noir tropes, shady corporations, underground dealings and investigations, all with the similar sort of thickset pixel animation of Crawl.
The developers cite specific influences on their work this time around, including Steven King, John Carpenter, and Michael Chrichton, with "a dash of 70s ozploitation." Think exploitation films, but with an Australian edge.
The game will have full voice acting throughout and a brand new score developed just for the game and designed to add to its haunting, film-noir overtones.
No release date has yet been set for The Drifter, but if you like, you can wishlist it on Steam now.
