Brineglass Basin · concept art01
Leave the familiar
THE UNKNOWNIS CALLING.
Choose a world. Take a contract. Board your drop pod and leave the safety of your colony ship behind.
Eight destinations. Your next expedition.
An expedition worth taking
OUT THERE,
BUILD A HOME.
Strange worlds. Hard-won salvage. A ship to call your own.
Step into the frontier of Driftwake.
Salvage. Survive. Start something.
You’re not here to conquer the stars.
You’re here to make a life among them.
The expedition
The expedition
A little further. Every time.
Brineglass Basin · concept art
Ashen Reach · in-development gameplay02
Make it count
NOTHING HERECOMES EASY.
Fight machines and native broods. Mine deposits, recover signals and hunt sentinels. Keep an eye on your Power—and your way out.
Ranged combat. Melee. One well-timed dash.
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Bring something back
THE BEST LOOT?A WAY HOME.
Push your luck or extract early. Only the salvage and field experience you bring home become part of what comes next.
Extract. Unload. Build. Go again.
01 / Beyond the airlock
ALIEN WORLDS.
REAL REASONS TO STAY.
From rusted freight yards to rose-colored snow.
Eight destinations. Each with a life of its own.
DESTINATION 01 / 08
Industrial frontier
Ashen Reach
Blue basalt columns and copper rustlace surround an abandoned haulage yard. Explore the scrap apron, gantry and cutaway depot rooms, gathering salvage among the machinery.
Field guide: Broken Haulage Yard02 / Make it yours
GOOD GEAR.
BETTER ODDS.
A quick carbine or a hard-hitting rifle. A utility blade or a heavy cleaver. Light protection or Bulwark Plating. Find the loadout that gets you back alive.
Inspect the equipment06Equipment families
05Quality tiers
FIELD KIT / BULWARK
BUILT TO TAKE YOU FURTHER.
BUILT TO TAKE YOU FURTHER.03 / More than a way back
A SHIP.
A CREW. A REASON.
The frontier gives you materials.
What you make of them is home.
Colony ship · key art01 / Construct
Make room for a future.
Build decks, rooms, workshops and galleys. Leave space for the crew who make them work.
02 / Craft
Give salvage a purpose.
Turn forty material families into components, supplies and higher-tier equipment.
03 / Keep going
Every haul comes home.
Unload at receiving. Let your crew haul, build and produce. Prepare for the next drop.
Signals from the workbench
A GAME IN THE MAKING.
The small breakthroughs. The big decisions. Follow Driftwake as we build it, one day at a time.
Field notesThe frontier has a field guide.
A closer look at the worlds, wildlife and equipment now documented in Driftwake Atlas.
Read the entry
WorldbuildingEight worlds. One way home.
Giving each destination its own ecology, silhouette and sense of place.
Read the entryCombatMaking every shot read.
Energy trails, impact bursts and a clearer visual language for danger.
Read the entryTransmission ongoing
THE FRONTIER
IS TAKING SHAPE.
Driftwake is in active development.
Come along for the build. We’ll share the journey here.