| Driftmoon | |
| State: | expanded |
| Developer: | Instant Kingdom |
| Platforms: | Windows, Linux, Mac |
| Genre: | Role-playing |
| Modes: | Single-player |
| Designer: | Ville Mönkkönen Anne Mönkkönen |
| Programmer: | Ville Mönkkönen |
| Artist: | Ville Mönkkönen Johanna Sundström |
| Composer: | Gareth Meek |
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.
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]
Driftmoon has received average reviews. Aggregating review websites GameRankings and Metacritic gave the PC game 76.25% and 73/100, respectively.
GameSpot praised the game's writing and humor, but criticized the shallow combat. 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.[2]