Driftmoon

Driftmoon
Developer(s)Instant Kingdom
Designer(s)Ville Mönkkönen
Anne Mönkkönen
Programmer(s)Ville Mönkkönen
Artist(s)Ville Mönkkönen
Johanna Sundström
Composer(s)Gareth Meek
Platform(s)Windows, Linux, Mac
Release
  • WW: February 26, 2013
Genre(s)Role-playing
Mode(s)Single-player

Driftmoon is a role-playing video game developed and published by Instant Kingdom, a Finnish video game developer. It was released in 2013 for Microsoft Windows, Linux, and Mac OS. In Driftmoon, players explore fantasy open-world. There is a non-linear story, allowing players to explore and make choices that affect the outcome of the game. It received generally positive reviews.

Plot[edit]

The beautiful, enchanted world of Driftmoon trembles in the shadow of a forgotten evil, for the dark King Ixal is once again gathering his forces.

Hope lies in an unlikely alliance—the player's character joins forces with a little firefly dreaming of stardom, a panther queen with the ego of a moon whale, and a very determined fellow who has lost everything except his bones. This group embarks on a journey to defeat King Ixal.[1]

Gameplay[edit]

Reception[edit]

Driftmoon has received average reviews. Aggregating review websites GameRankings and Metacritic gave the PC game 76.25% and 73/100,[2][3] respectively.

GameSpot praised the game's writing and humor, but criticized the shallow combat.[4] Destructoid noted that Driftmoon "[seemed] . . . like the perfect introduction to RPGs for someone new to the genre. It's light-hearted, not too difficult on the lower settings, and doesn't overwhelm the player with options in combat or a complicated skill tree." They similarly enjoyed the writing.[5]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Driftmoon - recenze | GAMES.CZ". games.tiscali.cz (in Czech). Retrieved 2022-04-07.
  2. ^ a b "Driftmoon for PC". GameRankings. Retrieved 2014-04-15.
  3. ^ a b "Driftmoon for PC Reviews". Metacritic. Retrieved 2014-04-15.
  4. ^ a b Woolsey, Cameron (January 10, 2014). "Driftmoon Review". GameSpot. Retrieved 2014-04-15.
  5. ^ "Review: Driftmoon". Destructoid. Retrieved 2015-03-08.

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