#Drifting lands unique upgrade#

The grind isn’t so bad at first, but within three hours I found myself redoing easier levels over and over just to be able to afford to upgrade my stats which allowed me to equip better loot.

This loot aspect can also lead to a grind, as levels are increasingly more difficult, and you will certainly have to upgrade your ship to be able to survive them.

The ship building aspect of the game adds some depth to what is an otherwise tired genre, which makes Drifting Lands feel fresh and new. The developers themselves have stated they are against such practices and they only consider DLC if it’s something closer to an expansion, so no worries there. Ships can be upgraded with loot collected from destroyed enemies during levels, as well as from an in-game store which thankfully doesn’t have microtransactions. In my time with the game (three hours) I only came across a handful of enemies which populated the randomly generated and thus repetitive levels.īefore diving into the game, players will be tasked with selecting one of three different types of ships, each with its own abilities and stats. The ships themselves are a bit more imaginative than the average for the genre but are nothing to write home about. The animated backgrounds really pop without distracting from the action happening in front of them, and most are quite easy on the eyes such as one level that features tornadoes. Running at a smooth framerate of at least 60FPS , Drifting Lands is easily the best-looking space shooter I’ve ever played.