Games like D.R.I.F.T.
If D.R.I.F.T. is your kind of game, the closest matches are Flightline: Airline Sim, Texas Oil Baron and MANIFEST — picked from the ranked list below. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
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Flightline: Airline Sim
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Top pick for D.R.I.F.T. fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with D.R.I.F.T..
Flightline is an airline management sim about building an airline that has to make sense. Set routes, choose aircraft, price seats, and shape a network where passengers route themselves through real markets. Growth is not just drawing lines on a map. It is whether the whole system holds together.
Texas Oil Baron
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Second-strongest match for D.R.I.F.T. fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with D.R.I.F.T..
An oil tycoon where half the game happens underground. Scan deposits with sonar, steer a drill that turns, haul oil with your own fleet, hold it in a warehouse for a better price and sign contracts where every day counts.
MANIFEST
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Third-strongest match for D.R.I.F.T. fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with D.R.I.F.T..
This is a game about the pressure of keeping ships productive. Idle ships bleed money. Late deliveries hurt your reputation. Old hulls develop histories. Captains become known quantities. A quiet ore run can suddenly become a rescue problem, a customs problem, or a piracy problem.
Space Trader Corps
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Ranked #4 for D.R.I.F.T. fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Simulation with D.R.I.F.T..
A real-time multiplayer space trading game in a shared persistent galaxy. Haul cargo across a living player-driven galaxy, mine asteroids, colonize and industrialize planets, become a pirate (or a hunt them), or out-trade every other captain - solo or with your friends. PvP & PvE.
Orbit Zero
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Ranked #5 for D.R.I.F.T. fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with D.R.I.F.T..
Create a Company, Build structures, Collect Resources, Make Investments and Speculate on Assets. Carefully manage your Workforce, Finances, Resources, Shareholders, BOD & Political Partnerships.
Space Supermarket Simulator
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Ranked #6 for D.R.I.F.T. fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with D.R.I.F.T..
Run your own supermarket in outer space. Keep shelves stocked and nicely organized. Supply your store with drone delivery. Will you take the duty of running a space supermarket?
Starship Contractor: Galactic Tycoon
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Ranked #7 for D.R.I.F.T. fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with D.R.I.F.T..
Shape the Galactic Arms Race. As CEO of a private space arms company, design modular ships, research breakthrough tech, and win faction tenders. Outmaneuver rivals in prototype races and make critical choices that make every playthrough unique, from a startup to galactic dominance.
Starlathe
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Ranked #8 for D.R.I.F.T. fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with D.R.I.F.T..
Command your ship and fleet in a galaxy that truly lives: 150 sectors where six factions mine, haul, trade, build and wage war whether you're there or not. Trade it, rob it, defend it — or forge your own fleet and carve out your place in it.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below D.R.I.F.T. at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
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Priced ~58% under D.R.I.F.T. on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with D.R.I.F.T..
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Vampire Survivors
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Priced ~58% under D.R.I.F.T. on Steam right now. Shares Indie with D.R.I.F.T..
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
Slay the Spire
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Priced ~48% under D.R.I.F.T. on Steam right now. Shares Indie with D.R.I.F.T..
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
How to Fish
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Priced ~59% under D.R.I.F.T. on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with D.R.I.F.T..
A 1-4 player physics based fishing simulator. While drinking and boating you suddenly crash into a small island. To work your way back home you have to learn How to Fish.
Cookie Clicker
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Priced ~58% under D.R.I.F.T. on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with D.R.I.F.T..
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
WEBFISHING
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Priced ~58% under D.R.I.F.T. on Steam right now. Shares Indie with D.R.I.F.T..
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
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Priced ~92% under D.R.I.F.T. on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with D.R.I.F.T..
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
Buckshot Roulette
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Priced ~75% under D.R.I.F.T. on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with D.R.I.F.T..
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with D.R.I.F.T..
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with D.R.I.F.T..
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with D.R.I.F.T..
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with D.R.I.F.T..
A twenty-dollar bill, four summers, fifteen years, and a one of a kind life. Create an experience that’s all your own in this near-fully customizable visual novel where you grow from childhood to adulthood with the lonely boy next door.
missed messages.
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with D.R.I.F.T..
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
NGU IDLE
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with D.R.I.F.T..
NGU Idle is a Free To Play Idle game that's full of weird humor, tons of upgrades and hundreds of hours of content! Try out NGU Idle today and experience the joy of Numbers Going Up!
Magic Archery
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with D.R.I.F.T..
Train a commoner to become the greatest archer in this short incremental game! Increase your stats, gather wealth from quests, buy upgrades, and infuse your arrows with magic.
The Lab
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!
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Frequently asked about D.R.I.F.T.
- How much does D.R.I.F.T. cost?
- D.R.I.F.T. is listed on Steam at 11.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to D.R.I.F.T.?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside D.R.I.F.T. are Flightline: Airline Sim, Texas Oil Baron, MANIFEST.
- Who developed D.R.I.F.T.?
- D.R.I.F.T. was developed by ResilientLogic Games.
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