The Drifter

Fate could have dealt Mick Carter a kinder hand. An unexpected catastrophe prompts him to abandon what remains of his family and start wandering a dystopian, near-future Australia, as if grief is something he can simply outrun. This muddled attempt at reprieve then stretches into weeks, months, years, with no word of explanation to his wife, Sarah, who's left to grapple with both their son's death and Mick's disappearance. That is, until a message from his sister, Annie, informs him their mother has passed away. Determined not to miss another funeral, Mick hops onto a freight train headed for his home town. But when he's discovered by a belligerent security team, our stowaway dies for the first time. Then he returns and the hallucinations start.

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Powerhoof's first full-length point-and-click is a sci-fi thriller that's mercifully free of the genre's worst excesses. No moon logic to stump you for hours forcing peeks at a walkthrough, only sensible puzzles and a complex, dialogue-driven story peppered with neatly arranged twists. Animated in the developer's trademark chunky pixel art and split into nine roughly hour-long chapters,