Sail a little boat between hand-built islands, and draw what you find.
Driftwood is a relaxed exploration game about the sea and everything that lives in and above it.
There are no enemies and no timers. Read the wind, tack toward a far-off lighthouse, sketch the crabs on the beach and the rays over the reef, and find your way home by a sky that matches the real one.
Sail by the wind, the sun and the stars
Your boat answers the wind. Run before it, reach across it, and tack when it's in your face.
- Stow the compass and steer by sunrise in the east and Polaris in the north.
- The night sky is the real one for the date: 94 named stars, the planets where they actually are, and the Milky Way.
- Raise a telescope and log 53 stars, planets, constellations and nebulae in your Astronomy Notebook.
Meet the Keeper of Palm Haven
The lighthouse on Palm Haven has been dark since the autumn storm. Odessa still lives at its foot, and she could use a hand relighting it.
Story Mode grows with the game. New chapters arrive as free updates, so there's always another bottle washing ashore.
Fill a field journal
Raise your journal and sketch whatever catches your eye. Each new creature, plant and place earns a page with field notes, checked against real references.
Goals, small wishes and a satchel of crafted gear grow out of what you discover, never out of a checklist you have to grind.
Slip over the side and dive
Warm islands are ringed with coral reefs, cool ones with kelp forests. Green sea turtles, eagle rays, parrotfish and garibaldi all go in the Sea section of your journal.
Weather that changes the day
Clear skies cloud over, rain rolls in, and sometimes a storm brings lightning, big seas and waterspouts that will spin your boat if you sail too close.
Prefer calm water? One setting keeps the skies gentle.
Every shore has a story
Old wrecks, ruined arches, beached canoes, homesteads with smoke in the chimney. Pitch a tent anywhere, light a fire, and rest until the stars come out.
One island, four seasons
Drag across Bramblewick Green to turn the year. Seasons follow the real sun, and a full year passes in about twenty hours of play. Sail south of the equator and they flip.
A year of events on the water
Holidays arrive on their real dates, with their own look, hidden things to find and goals to finish. New events and chapters download as free updates.
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Fact sheet
For press, streamers and curious sailors. Screenshots on this page are full in-game captures; ask for originals or a key at the address below.
- Developer
- Nagoh Creative, Perry, Georgia
- Platforms
- Windows on Steam and itch.io first; macOS and iOS planned
- Release
- To be announced
- Players
- Single player
- Controls
- Keyboard and mouse, or a controller
- Updates
- Free story chapters and seasonal events
- Contact
- support@nagoh.us