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2025 · Point & Click · Story Rich · Investigation

How long isThe Drifter?

by Powerhoof & Dave Lloyd

9 hours

for the typical playerhalf of them between 6 hours and 14 hours

On the long side for a point-and-click adventure: 9 hours for the typical player, longer than 166 of 203 point-and-click adventures here.

Does The Drifter hold up?

Holds steady

Holds up seal

At least 92% of its Steam reviewers recommend it at every stage from 2 to 20 hours played.

Earned when at least 90% of a game's Steam reviewers recommend it at every stage past the first two hours, counted over three or more stages of 200 reviews each, with no stage 5 points below an earlier one. Every game that holds it.

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Do the first two hours of The Drifter tell you?

In the first two hours83%recommend it

After that98%recommend it

16 of every 20 thumbs-down came after the window had closed, 4 while a refund was still possible.

How this is counted

Half of its Steam reviewers had played 9 hours or less when they gave their verdict. The middle half sat between 6 hours and 14 hours.

One token is 1% of its Steam reviews, standing at the hours its author had played. Counted from about 5,020 Steam reviews, by the hours each author had played when they wrote theirs. It is not a time to beat.

It holds steady: between 93% and 99% recommend it at every stage past the first two hours.

3% of its reviews were written inside Steam's two-hour refund window, and 83% of those recommend it. After the window, 98% do. Of the players who gave it a thumbs-down, 82% were already past the window; the typical thumbs-down came 6 hours in.

When would you get there?

9days

At an hour a night, you’d pass the typical player’s 9 hours on Thursday, October 29.

Half of its reviewers had played between 6 and 14 hours: Oct 26 to Nov 3 at this pace.

How this is counted

The typical player's hours are the hours Steam reviewers had played when they wrote their review, not a time to beat. The days count from today, playing the hours the pace says on each day.

Where do players get filtered in The Drifter?

The filter

Deceased Estate

12 of every 100 players got to this one and no further.

They hold Welcoming Party and never earned it.

  1. Launched it100% launched it
  2. Welcoming PartyComplete chapter 1−1387% hold it
  3. Deceased EstateComplete chapter 2Filtered −1275% hold it
  4. From Out The GraveComplete chapter 3−669% hold it
  5. The Hunter HuntedComplete chapter 4−960% hold it
  6. Chains That BindComplete chapter 5−357% hold it
  7. Best Laid PlansComplete chapter 6−255% hold it
  8. Rogue HypothesisComplete chapter 7−550% hold it
  9. A Lesson In HistoryComplete chapter 8−149% hold it
  10. The DrifterComplete the final chapter−148% hold it
How this is counted

87% of the players who launched The Drifter hold Welcoming Party, its first story achievement on Steam, and 48% hold The Drifter, its last. The steepest drop comes between Welcoming Party (87%) and Deceased Estate (75%).

Steam's global achievement stats count everyone who ever launched the game, people still playing included. They are not a finish rate. The filter is the steepest drop between two story achievements; the players who never reached the first one barely started, and are never the filter.

Is The Drifter worth it?

Is The Drifter worth it? Yes.

  • Fair price

    About what a typical point-and-click adventure charges: $2.22 an hour

  • Loved

    98% recommend it after the refund windowmost point-and-click adventures: 92%

How this is counted

At Steam's US list price of $19.99, the typical player's 9 hours come to $2.22 an hour. Past the two-hour refund window, 98% of its Steam reviewers recommend it. An hour of The Drifter costs about what the typical one of 203 point-and-click adventures here charges $2.00.

The price is Steam's US list price for the game by itself: not a sale price, a bundle or what anyone paid. The hours are the ones its reviewers had played, not a time to beat. Its kind (point-and-click adventures) is named by its strongest Steam tags, a narrow kind before a wide one, among the kinds with at least 20 priced games here; failing that, by its Steam genre. The going rate is the middle hourly cost of those games, and the receipt prices its typical hours at it. The words beside it compare it with its kind: loved is 90% recommending it or more, liked 80%, mixed 65%; it gets played when a quarter fewer of the owners read here never launched it than of its kind's typical game. Whether it holds up is drawn on the hours road above, and counts toward the one-word answer.

Would you like The Drifter?

Give the ball your Steam profile link or name. It reads the games you own most like The Drifter, how long each held you against the typical player, and how long The Drifter would take you. Public profiles only. No account needed, and no library is saved.

How this is counted

It reads how long you tend to stay: across every game you've played whose typical hours it knows (free games left out), how often you went past the typical player and how often you left before half their hours. It glows when you often stay past them, dims when you often leave early, and needs five played games to read at all. Then it shows the games you own most like this one, by the same measure as the shelf of games like it, each with your hours against the typical player's.

Why not a forecast for this game: on 36,766 Steam libraries, how a player did on games like one told little beyond how long they stay in games at all, so those games are shown as evidence and never scored. Nothing of the library is kept.

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Public pages here, by the hours Steam has on this game. From two hours up, the most hours holds the page.

What did people here do with The Drifter?

  • 1 in 1,740

    Name 100 runs say its name: players asked to name 100 games from memory

How this is counted

Counted from the Steam libraries read here and the pages kept here, not from all of Steam's players. A case is one owner, or one in twenty of them when there are more.

Games like The Drifter

All 30 games like The Drifter, and which you already own
How this is counted

The same series first, then the games sharing the most of its strongest Steam tags, genres and themes, the ones of a similar typical length ahead. Each case wears the hours its own page leads with.