Driftlings

The driftlings walk endlessly in one direction and turn at walls. You can't steer them directly; instead you grant individual wanderers a skill to reshape the route. Terrain is destructible, some skills carve through it while others build over gaps, so spend your limited skill budget to lead enough of them safely to the exit.

• Assign skills to individual driftlings to alter the path
• Skills include climber, floater, bomber, blocker, builder, basher, miner and digger
• You have a fixed budget of each skill, plan before you spend

• Desktop: click a driftling and choose a skill to assign it
• Phone & tablet: tap a wanderer to give it a skill

• Drop a blocker to turn the crowd around while you prepare the route ahead
• Mine and dig downward, but use a floater so the followers survive the drop
• Save bombers for sealed pockets, they carve openings nothing else can reach

Driftlings recreates the rescue-puzzle game of 1991, a stream of mindless walkers marches into danger, and you spend a budget of skills (diggers, builders, blockers, bombers) to carve them a safe path to the exit in real time. A landmark of the puzzle genre.

Driftlings is an original free browser puzzle in the guide-the-marching-crowd tradition, with destructible terrain and a budget of reshaping skills. Just open and play.

A free, original browser game on PlayPendium. No download, no install.