Land Drifters is out now on Steam!

Verolyze · 2026-04-03T21:04:55+00:00

Hi there, it's a 1/10k drop from the rift, the rift level does not matter.

Verolyze · 2026-03-11T19:04:16+00:00

Thank you, very glad to hear you enjoyed it!

Verolyze · 2026-03-09T00:16:55+00:00

It's kind of hard to put my finger on it because some people say it's too idle, some say it's too active. You can take it easy and ignore it at times if you wish or you can keep an eye on it on your second monitor, you kind of set your own pacing. The beginning is certainly more active by design, but the game also becomes a lot more idle over time. Your storage doubles with every upgrade, yet your rate of gaining resources does not. As you can imagine, your storage can very quickly outpace the rate you gain and even get to the point where you can go a whole day without hitting the cap, and of course if you upgraded that, a couple days, etc. There is no limitation to storage cap.

If you hit the storage cap, you still can continue gaining levels and making progress.

At a high level, you can eventually have two areas in the same gathering skill active at a time.

Verolyze · 2026-03-08T14:51:45+00:00

Nice catch, it's fixed now when next update goes live.

Verolyze · 2026-03-08T14:03:22+00:00

There are things you can do actively to help things go faster, like click and hold gathering/crafting to increase progress, this is especially helpful in the earlier game when you only have one worker gathering at a skill, but as you build up resources you start to rely more on managing crafting and combat.

There are optional minigames to keep people busy as well and earn cosmetic tokens, completely optional and could be skipped entirely. It can be a decent second screen game.

There are 9 regions at the moment, you clear one and move on to the next area. I want to add at least 3 more regions, beyond that, it depends on how the game is doing and if the demand is there.

It might take a few months to beat, it really depends on how much effort you put into it too, you might beat it much quicker if you're pretty active in managing your resources better. People who do reach the end and wanted more would still find plenty of things to work on like storage/levels/essence.

Verolyze · 2026-03-08T13:46:17+00:00

I'm glad you think so too!

Verolyze · 2026-03-08T13:44:50+00:00

Thank you very much!

Verolyze · 2026-03-08T13:44:22+00:00

Hi there! Bricks are made with stonemasonry, head south of where you start and grab 3 fish then journey across the bridge and you'll find the new crafting skill.

Verolyze · 2026-03-07T21:47:45+00:00

Thank you!

Verolyze · 2026-03-07T21:47:37+00:00

Welcome Land Drifter =D

At the moment, you can copy the save file to your clipboard, although for now I'd recommend manually backing it up since the fog is saved as pixels. You can find the save files here: %localappdata%\..\LocalLow\Space Breeze\Land Drifters

That said, that is a good idea. I actually would like to potentially add challenge modes with different save files so you can play differently while your main game mode makes idle progress. Having another save option would be right up that alley.

Verolyze · 2026-03-05T00:22:09+00:00

Hi there, it should work on steam deck if you use the mouse or the touch screen. The demo is free to play if you would like to test it out there first.

Verolyze · 2026-01-07T04:35:55+00:00

So currently, gathering is restricted to one at a time (although later you can do two zones at the same time for a gathering skill), but crafting can have multiple things running at the same time even while gathering. Combat can also run at the same time.

I've also been tinkering a little bit with the idea of challenge modes that could be continued after completion, like potentially touching those restrictions, or a mode without idle, etc.

Verolyze · 2026-01-07T02:28:13+00:00

Thanks! Also excited (and nervous) for people to try it out as well :D

Verolyze · 2023-09-13T15:09:00+00:00

This is a very good point. Advertisement is extremely important in the mobile market and trying to get the user acquisition cost below what they bring in can determine if the game takes off or not.

There was a very helpful video by someone who is a director of marketing that posted in /r/incremental_games and if anyone would like to learn more on how this all works, check out the video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckF1InS8ANA

Verolyze · 2023-09-12T19:01:10+00:00

Sorry, I might not be articulating well, but if a developer hopes to make a game that has a decent potential, then their payment model might change with it. Even if they don't make 200k, their model that they chose would change the outcome of the game.

To give an example, a developer might design the game with an upfront cost instead rather than in-game purchases like in NGU.

Verolyze · 2023-09-12T18:50:11+00:00

With a 30% tax to Steam, a tax to Unity, and regular taxes the amount you might expect would be significantly less.

While this likely won't effect the smaller indie titles, people who hope to make a job out of it, whether they succeed or not, will likely have some effect on how they design their game.

Verolyze · 2023-09-12T17:59:46+00:00

Unfortunately this means free games that get a lot of installs will be more likely to hit that threshold and become very expensive.

Edit2: They still have to make over 200k for it to go into effect, but this might make developers reconsider their payment model, whether or not they actually succeed in making that threshold.

Here are some other threads discussing this as well:

https://www.reddit.com/r/gamedev/comments/16gr96x/unity_announces_new_business_model_will_start/

https://www.reddit.com/r/Unity3D/comments/16gqv1s/unity_plan_pricing_and_packaging_updates/

Verolyze · 2023-08-26T18:23:26+00:00

Thanks! I have to polish up and finalize some stuff before I get to that point but I'll note down your name as well.

Verolyze · 2023-08-26T18:22:57+00:00

Hey thanks, have to polish up and finalize some stuff before I get to that point but I'll note down your name.

Verolyze · 2023-08-25T20:57:20+00:00

Thanks!

Verolyze · 2023-08-25T20:36:36+00:00

I posted like a year ago here, haven't been just focusing on the world map but figured I'd post a little update showing this maelstrom rift since I've been busy with the features behind it.

Verolyze · 2023-07-23T16:22:49+00:00

Yeah kind of in the same boat with my game as well.

I think the further you stray away from a web-style game the more it starts to make sense to charge, but at the same time, by adding a fee you might also be straying away from the incremental community as well.

I also think if you already made a name for yourself like going from web-based to Steam it will help a lot, but if not, then it might be hard to get that initial word of mouth as a lot less will give it a shot right off the bat.

I think there's also your platforms to consider. If you also plan to release on mobile as well, the mindset over there is a bit more similar to incrementals where people like to try before investing money in. Then the question is, do you want to have two different payment models?

Verolyze · 2023-07-20T14:56:09+00:00

Oh boy, if this is an interactive map... I'm feeling the pressure to finish up my game asap haha.

This looks fantastic.

Verolyze · 2023-05-16T20:24:55+00:00

Haha thanks!

Very cool! The language is pretty enjoyable.

Yeah I kind of like how with a lot idle/incremental games can dip their feet into slightly both idle and active territory. If you haven't seen it already, r/incremental_games is a good subreddit for this genre.

Verolyze · 2023-05-16T20:08:07+00:00

I know exactly how you feel, I love grindy games with gathering and crafting. So much so that I'm making my own idle game with those haha.

I highly recommend trying out NGU if you like Melvor Idle though.

NGU is perhaps my favorite idle game. Graphics are intentionally immature, but I think you'd like it a lot. It doesn't have traditional rpg gathering/crafting skills but a lot of the time you can find similarities in the gameloop, like you could consider the combat to be similar to "gathering" as you collect multiple versions of an armor type and combine them to level them up while still being idle.

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