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Play Overview
Nova Drift (2024) is a psychedelic shooting game where you battle alien invaders using an intricately upgradeable spaceship. Along with reflex-based shooting, play focuses on finding complementary upgrades that supplement one another to create powerful attacks. It may look like a modern take on Asteroids, but tinkering with the labyrinthine upgrade options makes it as much about engineering as shooting.
Play involves using one stick to move your ship and the other to control your direction. You avoid their attacks while fighting back to defeat wave after wave of increasingly powerful enemy fighters. As you advance, you choose upgrades to apply to your ship's weapons, shields, and propulsion systems. It's here where the real fun starts.
Many upgrades are ineffective on their own, but in combination, they can become much more powerful. For example, you can increase your shields with one upgrade and add an attack that deals damage when you ram enemies with another. Or you can make your shields fragile and fast to regenerate with one, and with another upgrade make them explode (and deal damage to enemies) every time they break.
In this way, you continue to evolve your abilities with ever more upgrades to reduce vulnerabilities and help you attack with greater speed and force. With hundreds of options to choose from, experimenting with different combinations to create a refined killing machine is a lot of fun.
The result is a game as much about ship design as it is about quick reactions and dodging. Uncovering synergies between upgrades and attempting ambitious strategies for beating the odds is hugely satisfying. Even when you do inevitably die and have to start again, the countless combinations mean there's always a new build to try.
Our examiner, Ben Kendall, first checked Nova Drift 4 weeks ago. It was re-examined by Jo Robertson and updated 2 weeks ago.
Play involves using one stick to move your ship and the other to control your direction. You avoid their attacks while fighting back to defeat wave after wave of increasingly powerful enemy fighters. As you advance, you choose upgrades to apply to your ship's weapons, shields, and propulsion systems. It's here where the real fun starts.
Many upgrades are ineffective on their own, but in combination, they can become much more powerful. For example, you can increase your shields with one upgrade and add an attack that deals damage when you ram enemies with another. Or you can make your shields fragile and fast to regenerate with one, and with another upgrade make them explode (and deal damage to enemies) every time they break.
In this way, you continue to evolve your abilities with ever more upgrades to reduce vulnerabilities and help you attack with greater speed and force. With hundreds of options to choose from, experimenting with different combinations to create a refined killing machine is a lot of fun.
The result is a game as much about ship design as it is about quick reactions and dodging. Uncovering synergies between upgrades and attempting ambitious strategies for beating the odds is hugely satisfying. Even when you do inevitably die and have to start again, the countless combinations mean there's always a new build to try.
Our examiner, Ben Kendall, first checked Nova Drift 4 weeks ago. It was re-examined by Jo Robertson and updated 2 weeks ago.
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Play Style
This is a Shooting game with Battle, Role-Play and Traversal elements. This is a single-player game.
You can play this game in the following styles:
Duration
Play Time: This game will take between 12 hours and 22 hours to complete. Because you start again from the beginning when you die, the time to beat varies significantly depending on how many runs it takes you to reach the end. Once you've cleared the game, you can still spend a lot of time completing more runs and tinkering with different ship designs and upgrade combinations.
Benefits
This game is good if you want to:
Age Ratings
Skill Level
9+ year-olds usually have the required skill to enjoy this game. You need to be able to move your ship precisely around the screen to avoid enemies and their attacks, while simultaneously aiming and shooting back at them. Choosing what upgrades to add to your ship requires an appreciation of how they will work in conjunction with pre-existing upgrades, and a level of forethought is helpful in choosing upgrades that may become useful later.
Costs
Game Details
Release Date: 12/08/2024
Out Now: Mac and PC
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Players: 1
Genres: Shooting (Battle, Role-Play and Traversal)
Accessibility: 20 features
Components: 2D Overhead
Developer: Nova Drift Game (@NovaDriftGame)
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