The Drifter Walkthrough — A Complete Guide
The Drifter is an adventure game that tells the story of a man named Mick Carter, who left his family but had to come back to save it from the evil scientist Gideon Roth. Usually, the game would take you 6-7 hours to complete, but this guide will help you do that in under two hours.
Table of contents
During the Prologue your task is to try to open the locked door in the old train wagon with the help of an old man stuck inside with you:
Chapter 1: Welcoming Party
After the train escape, you’ll end up at the railway underpass. At this point, you must find a way out of this situation:
At this point, you need to enter the overpass and speak to the reporter lady, trying to speak to the homeless:
Chapter 2: Deceased Estate
Return to the underpass and use a piece of paper on the ground to light a fire in the barrel and get warm. Then follow these steps:
As soon as you flee into the Herald building, speak to the secretary and check out a fresh newspaper from the lot at the entrance, learning that you’ve been set up as the Bucket Butcher.
Now you can return to the Herald and return the money to the homeless person. Once he wakes up and gives you the bottle with alcohol, do the following:
Chapter 3: From Out the Grave
Once you arrive at the funeral, give the vase with Mom’s ashes to your wife and grab the shovel to escape the assault of a man in the yellow jacket.
When the monster dies under the rubble, hook up a coffin with your umbrella, open it and get inside:
To free yourself from the handcuffs, click on the unconscious cop and change your clothes by clicking on the drawer next to the bed. Head to the exit and watch a short scene with the detective and your wife.
Chapter 4: The Hunter Hunted
When you arrive at your sister’s apartment, check out the answering machine next to the refrigerator and press the red button.
When you leave the apartment again, arrive at the railway overpass to meet the detective in the yellow jacket.
Sweep the reporter’s office and pick up the vacuum cleaner bag while checking the file cabinet and her computer. Then, leave the office and:
At this point, you need to return to Annie’s apartment and give your wife a MedCon pen to research on the internet. Then, listen to a new message on the answering machine and follow these steps:
Finally, you must escape the reporter’s office by using the trolley and pushing the file cabinet. Pick up the flathead screwdriver from the floor and use it to open the window in the office.
When the monsters appear on the roof, you can safely land into the open garbage container below.
Chapter 5: Chains That Bind
You can now safely return to Annie’s car location and use the screwdriver to open the trunk. Pull out the steel car jack from the trunk and follow further:
After waking up in another room, click on the door to call upon the Butcher. Now you must find a way to escape his clutches:
Finally, you must hit the Esky freezer with the broomstick and pick up some dry ice from the floor. Now you can escape:
When you move further into the lab, the Butcher will try to attack you, but the captive cop will prevent him from hurting you. However, the captive cop is actually the Trinity soldier, so hit him with a rebar. Pick up a rifle from the unconscious soldier and use it on the metal ladder to trigger a surprise visit from the detective.
Chapter 6: Best Laid Plans
Mick, the Butcher, and the detective appear in Annie’s apartment. Here, you need to ask your wife to find the location of the lab in Wunyerra:
The Butcher will stumble upon one such mine and trigger an explosion, which will reveal the entrance into the underground facility. Move through the air ventilation tube until you reach Annie’s office. The following conversation will reveal that Mick was the subject of an experiment.
Chapter 7: Rogue Hypothesis
After a long conversation with Gideon Roth, follow your sister Annie to the elevator. Enter the cafe and speak to the reporter:
Here, you can find the way out of the facility if you follow the stairs going up at the right side of the screen. Keep it in mind and follow these steps:
After that, return to the elevator and descend to the bottom floor, the reactor facility:
Now you’re able to return to the reactor facility on the bottom floor and watch Annie drown in the pool. This will trigger a series of the following events:
When that’s done, you need to convince Annie to leave the lab. You can find her in the Interface Lab:
Inside the secret room you’ll find Roth’s wife in a coma. Investigate the room and find a pair of forceps, which you may use to untwist the coat hanger in your inventory.
The results will clearly show that the radiation levels are over the top. Speak to Dr. Klein about this and show him the gas mask:
Chapter 8: A Lesson in History
After speaking to Annie, go to the reactor room and report to Dr. Klein. At this point, the entire lab starts to crumble down:
Roth will offer you to use the machine again, which will trigger a set of new events:
When you meet Roth again in the Interface Lab, replace the cartridge in the machine with a new one you got, and follow these steps:
Chapter 9: Ascent Into Madness
In the final chapter, you’ll appear back in the destroyed lab full of scout monsters. Use ladders instead of elevators to move from one floor to another:
Speak to both Annie and Sanjay about the situation in the lab. Return to the detective and give him the jerrycan:
Once Dr. Klein’s awareness comes back, ask him about the heavy plates. Then, bring the plates to the detective so he can lock the hatch.
Now use Sanjay’s card to enter his room and pick up an empty sprayer from the table. Return to the reactor room:
Finally, you need to use the pulse device to unlock the ceiling of the storage facility and leave the lab for good. But at the last moment Roth will appear as a monster:
Although Mick’s wife arrives to save the group, Roth is still alive. The detective manages to shoot Roth, but the evil scientist still manages to wound Sarah. Fortunately, Sarah survives Roth’s attack and ends up reuniting with Mick at the hospital for a happy end.
That’s everything you need to know on how to complete The Drifter walkthrough. For more guides, check outDawn of Man WalkthroughandLUTO Full Walkthrough – All Achievements and Collectibles.
