[DEV] A month on from my final submit, Driftbound now has participant buying and selling, extra ships and faction wars – NO ADS, NO IAP.

Hey all! It’s been a few month since I final posted Driftbound right here. Nonetheless no adverts or in-app purchases, you purchase it as soon as and that’s the entire recreation.

Final time I’d simply added the storyline and endgame. Since then I’ve been including extra to really do within the locations you journey to, in addition to working by way of the suggestions individuals have despatched over.

Driftbound on Google Play

We even have our group at r/Driftbound

For anybody who hasn’t seen it, it’s a semi-idle house RPG. You fly between programs, mine, commerce, smuggle cargo, combat pirates and regularly enhance your ship. Issues like mining and travelling stick with it whereas the app is closed, so you possibly can go away it doing one thing and are available again later.

The largest addition is faction wars. You’ll be able to be part of a faction and assist it take territory, work by way of orders, climb the ranks and go after enemy captains. It offers you a bit extra motive to care about whose house you’re flying by way of.

Buying and selling has modified rather a lot too. Stations now produce and want various things, so discovering cargo run is extra concerned than promoting all the things wherever you occur to dock. There’s additionally a participant market the place you possibly can promote belongings you’ve gathered or crafted to different gamers. That half wants a connection, however you possibly can nonetheless play the remaining offline with out signing up for an account.

There are extra ships now, uncommon tools to forge, pets to hatch, and extra individuals and jobs out within the additional programs. A number of the work has additionally been on the much less thrilling stuff individuals identified: awkward menus, issues that weren’t defined correctly, and bugs. One notably annoying loading challenge after a very long time away is mounted now too.

I’ve put a more moderen gameplay video on this submit as fairly a bit seems completely different from the final one. If anybody from the earlier submit remains to be taking part in, I’d have an interest to listen to what you consider the newer stuff (and presumably what you'd prefer to see sooner or later)?