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Drifter cover art

Drifter

Celsius Game Studios · 2014-03-04

Steam

ActionIndieSimulationEarly Access

Modes: Single player

Releases: Feb 02, 2014 (Linux), Feb 02, 2014 (Mac), Feb 02, 2014 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Drifter is an open-world sandbox space trading game with a procedurally-generated galaxy 100,000 light years across made up of tens of thousands of star systems to explore and features an original soundtrack by composer Danny Baranowsky.

54%
positive of 205 reviews
Mixed
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
60/100
IGDB user rating (0 ratings)
$11.99
steam price (US)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 8 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 11% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (24 reviews).
  • · Top 31% of 24,927 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 5.1k–12k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 205 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $4.99 at Steam (2018-10-25)via IsThereAnyDeal

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
212120142025Week of 2014-03-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2014-03-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2014-04-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2014-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2014-05-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2014-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2014-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2014-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2014-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2014-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2014-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2014-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2014-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2014-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2015-01-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2015-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2015-02-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2015-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2015-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2015-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-07-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2015-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2015-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2015-08-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2015-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2015-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2015-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-12-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2016-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-02-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2016-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2016-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-04-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2016-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2016-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2016-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2016-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2016-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2017-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2017-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-08-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$11.99$4.992015-01-012018-11-062015-01-01 — best price $11.992015-01-10 — best price $10.792015-01-12 — best price $11.992015-07-01 — best price $9.952015-07-02 — best price $10.052015-07-08 — best price $11.992015-09-05 — best price $10.792015-09-12 — best price $11.992015-11-25 — best price $9.592015-12-01 — best price $11.992016-02-05 — best price $9.592016-02-12 — best price $11.992016-10-08 — best price $9.592016-10-15 — best price $11.992016-11-23 — best price $9.592016-11-29 — best price $11.992016-12-25 — best price $9.592017-01-02 — best price $11.992017-03-26 — best price $9.592017-04-02 — best price $11.992017-06-22 — best price $8.992017-07-05 — best price $11.992017-09-30 — best price $8.392017-10-09 — best price $11.992017-12-22 — best price $8.392018-01-04 — best price $11.992018-02-16 — best price $8.392018-02-19 — best price $11.992018-06-21 — best price $7.192018-07-05 — best price $11.992018-07-25 — best price $8.032018-08-01 — best price $11.992018-10-25 — best price $4.992018-10-27 — best price $8.992018-11-06 — best price $11.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsmacOSLinuxSingle-playerPartial Controller SupportFamily Sharing

Player tags

IndieSpaceActionMiningSci-fiSandboxTradingSpace SimOpen WorldSimulation

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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