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Drifting Among Worlds

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Connect to the many worlds floating around you and collect their resources.

Find exciting secret islands, explore mysterious dungeons and defeat challenging bosses! Upgrade your floating world with the many special resouces, like iron, stone, wood and monster essence!


Try to save the one you lost contact with…


CONTROLS:

Z: Jump/confirm action

X: Attack/decline action

Down arrow key: Interact

Hold down arrow key: Teleport home

Left/right arrow keys: Move

C: Show resources

P: Pause game

M: Mute game

Hold R for a while to start a new game

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What a fascinating experience this was. A non-linear platformer like literally nothing I've ever played before.

This game has you drifting away on a floating island, in a sky where so many other islands drift, and your main form of progressing involves anchoring your own floating island to other ones in order to obtain their resources, including wood, rocks, iron, and essence from defeated enemies. Gathering enough resources then enables you to upgrade your own island, improving its movement and accessibility capabilities, so you can explore more of the sky.

There is this lovely zen quality to the act of slowly building up your island's capabilities, waiting for a useful floating island to drift by in a good position, anchoring it, gathering its resources, letting it go, and getting ready for the next one. The game does not last long enough for it to get repetitive, as the upgrades tend to not require too much stuff, and the ambient music helps us get into that relaxing meditative state.

Once your island is capable of moving around, you can visit three large islands that contain more traditional platforming levels. These are a nice change of pace from the usual resource gathering, and they can get pretty challenging, but never unfair. Each of them culminates in a simple boss fight, and once you defeat the bosses, you get this special resource that you will need for the final upgrades.

After unlocking the very last upgrade, you can reach the only other island in the sky that also contains a house in it, and without spoiling much, the conclusion can get pretty emotional.

I have never, in my life, played a game like this. This was such a trip. Original, interesting, at times relaxing, at times challenging, and just very enthralling overall.

awesome game, except its very fucked up the bad ending is.

got the good ending :)

the atmosphere ideas and special islands are cool, but it feels like there's not much to do other than those, and its a bit low stakes.

drifting WHAT worlds

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Nov 26, 2021
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