Drifter Drill

Drifter Drill: Drift. Drill. Bank the ore.

Your mothership is parked at the edge of the unknown. It can't move, but it can launch you.

Push out into fog-shrouded space, mine asteroids, and haul your ore back. Every chunk you bank is a choice: patch up the mothership, repair your own hull, or save up for the hyperjump that takes you one sector closer to Earth.

Out here, physics doesn't forgive. Thrust, drift, counter-burn. Overshoot a landing and you'll be paying for it in hull plates.

• Newtonian flight. Momentum is everything, so master it or become debris.
• Nine ships to unlock, all paid for in ore. Miners: Compact, Medium and Bulk. Fighters: Light, Strike and Heavy. Explorers: Scout, Surveyor and Pathfinder.
• Bank the ore. Two ore buys one point of mothership hull, so every run is a trade-off between staying alive and getting home.
• Four sectors to Earth: Rim Dust, Amber Cut, Quiet Kill and Earth Gate. Alien waves, radiation zones and bosses grow nastier with every jump.
• Fog of war. You only know what your scanners have touched.

Controls

In flight: A/D to turn, W to thrust, S to reverse, Shift to boost, Space to mine or fire, E to dock. Esc pauses.

Docked: hold R to repair the mothership, hold F to repair your ship, Enter to jump.

Build status

Drifter Drill is an early browser build (v0.5.2), playable right here in your browser. It's a work in progress, so expect rough edges. Feedback is very welcome: leave a comment below or email hello@singlepixelcrew.com.

Formerly known as KEEL.

Every world starts with a single pixel. Yours starts in the dark.

Drifter Drill is in active development by Single Pixel Crew.