Fit check
Is Drift: Space Survival worth it for you?
We tell you who should skip it, too.
Play it if you…
Good fit- Co-op survival players who want shared exploration and construction
- Solo players who prefer gathering and rebuilding in a science-fiction setting
- Players who enjoy crafting, automation, and open-ended ship construction
Skip it if you…
Saves you a refund- Players seeking a tightly scripted adventure may find the resource-gathering and construction loop too open-ended
- Players wanting fast combat-focused sessions may find the survival, research, and rebuilding structure slow-paced
- Players looking for a management game centered on running a business may prefer a different format
Our take on Drift: Space Survival
The defining premise is rebuilding a crashed research ship piece by piece inside an asteroid field, using gathered materials, crafted equipment, automation, and researched technology to work toward a return home.
What is Drift: Space Survival?
Drift: Space Survival is a cooperative survival adventure set in an unexplored asteroid field.
Players investigate the field, collect materials, and use them to restore technology lost when a research ship crashes. The game supports solo play and groups of up to 7 friends. Activities include mining asteroids, constructing ships, crafting survival equipment, upgrading multi-tools, and using tractor beams. Automated systems can handle tasks while expeditions continue. Players can also encounter unfamiliar fauna, research recovered technology, and work with a maintenance drone while developing systems such as life support. The long-term objective is to rebuild enough of the research vessel and its technology to return home.
How Drift: Space Survival plays
- 01Cooperative Exploration
- Groups of up to 7 friends can investigate the asteroid field and travel through it together.
- 02Ship Reconstruction
- Gathered materials can restore the crashed research vessel and add systems such as life support.
- 03Survival Crafting
- Crafting includes survival equipment, multi-tool improvements, and tractor beams.
- 04Task Automation
- Automated machinery can perform work while expeditions move farther into the field.
- 05Technology Research
- Recovered materials and discoveries contribute to rebuilding the technology needed to leave.
Drift: Space Survival compared to similar games
Mr. Prepper also combines survival and crafting, but places its play around building an underground shelter and dealing with an authoritarian government. Drift: Space Survival instead centers on cooperative asteroid-field exploration, ship reconstruction, automation, and recovering technology after a space mission disaster.
Drift: Space Survival: platforms & release
Is Drift: Space Survival worth it?
It is worth it if: co-op survival players who want shared exploration and construction. Skip it if: players seeking a tightly scripted adventure may find the resource-gathering and construction loop too open-ended.
Where can I download Drift: Space Survival?
Use the Download Now button on this page: it opens Drift: Space Survival's store page, where you can choose how to get it.
What platforms is Drift: Space Survival on?
Windows, macOS and Linux.
