That's what is Drifting Lands in essence: first and foremost an action-RPG (Hack'n'Slash or however you may call this). Then and only then a different kind of shoot'em'up, accessible to a wider audience than usual.

Drifting Lands main characteristics are:

• randomy generated missions for replayability
• 100 levels of difficulty to climb with your skill or your ability to optimize your gear and powers
• 70 active and passive powers with various effects: dash, area of effect attacks, time control, etc.
• a complex item generation system with a lot of stat modifiers to optimize, unique items with "game changer" powers
• 3 classes of ships for different profiles of players
• Not your usual bland heroic fantasy universe

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