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alone. forsaken. salvage. survive.
A transmission from the wake. Coming to Steam.

SALVOR  ADRIFT

alone. forsaken. salvage. survive.
A lo fi space salvage game. You wake adrift in a salvage frame. Two hundred star systems, and every road between them is sealed. Machines hold what is left. Strip the dead. Claim the wells. Trust nothing.
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THE SHORT VERSION
Top down space salvage. Cut dead warships apart for parts, fuel and gear.
Fit guns, beams, launchers, point defense and a drone wing. Every shot builds heat.
A RESIDENT holds the well in every system. Kill it and take the station.
Twelve frames. Eleven fly. The twelfth stays sealed.
Act One is free and playable above. The full game is in a closed playtest. Apply
Coming to Steam on Windows, macOS and Linux. No date yet.

Transmission Intercepts

Click any shot to open it. Click again to go in closer.

Gameplay. The salvage frame fires on a RESIDENT and its interceptors beside a banded gas giant at FERRO HOLLOW, the full HUD live.
Gameplay. Rogue gunships, rogue artillery and a rival HUSKY MKIII in one fight beside a small rocky world at VANTA SHOAL. Gameplay. The frame cuts into a dead capital hulk close to the star at BASILICA SHOAL while a rogue gunship locks on. Gameplay. Two rival BUFFALO frames in a beam fight beside an ice world at SOOT VERGE. Gameplay. A cutter beam on a capital hulk inside a green and pink nebula at MERIDIAN WAKE, a gunship and an interceptor closing.
The star chart. The galaxy spiral with forty five of two hundred systems charted and faction names hanging across the arms.

The Wake

The war ended. Nobody won. What is left is a sky full of dead fleets, sealed roads and machines still holding the wells.

You wake adrift in a salvage frame beside K-77, a station that is dying around you. Strip hulks. Take the wells. Build yards and citadels across the chart.

a gate does not make the road. it REMEMBERS it.

THE BUILD LOG. How the systems work and why.

ABOUT. Who makes this, and who it is dedicated to.

LIVING MACHINES. How the machines are trained and tested.

Systems Online

Salvage. Cut wrecks and dead capital hulls apart for parts, fuel and gear.
Rolled drops. Thousands of them. Deeper systems roll better gear.
Heat. Every shot builds it. Hit the limit and the guns stand down until you vent.
Hot means stuck. A hot frame cannot dock, cruise or jump. Vent first.
The lock. Click a target to lock it, or let the computer lock the nearest. One lock serves every gun. SPACE is for salvage and mining only.
The terminal. Your first dock is a hack. Claim a yard, or take a rival's at its window, one command at a time at the prompt.
The salvo. Rockets, missiles and torpedoes leave the tube nose first on their own weave. Kinetic cracks armor, explosive burns hull, EM strips shields.
Fold jumps. Free at every lane gate, which reels you in and holds you while you pick. FOLD CRUISE (Q) is the slow road without one.
Drones. They join the fights you are in. They never start one. Their hulls show on the rack. Click a bar to call one home.
The RESIDENT. One holds the well in every system. Kill it and take the station.
Yards and citadels. Claim a yard, raise a citadel, link three into a chain.
THE OLD GUARD. Fifty LOST ROCKs still fight on their last orders.
THE CODEX. Weld the parts you took into gear of your own.
Fourteen rivals. Other salvors share the chart. Put one adrift and choose: finish it, or make peace.
Taking ground. Break a yard, kill its guns, bring the hull to half and dock to take it.
THE TRIBUTE. Leave a rival his last yard and he pays you every six hours, by a packet anyone can shoot.
Seventeen tracks. A soundtrack made for this game.
One dev. Every system in here.

The Frames

Twelve frames. Eleven fly. The twelfth stays sealed until all fifty LOST ROCKs are charted. The frame sets how many mounts you can carry. Every mount past the first is earned from a RESIDENT.

All twelve SALVOR ADRIFT frames on one sheet, top down, from the frame cards in the game: GT523, HUSKY MKIII, BUFFALO, VOLE, SABLE, VULTURE, HELIOS, MULE, TOMCAT, GUNGNIR, ZEPHYR and the sealed twelfth, shown as a question mark.
GT523. The gun truck. Four mounts, all guns. No launchers, no drone wing. Two salvage cutters.
HUSKY MKIII. The hybrid. Guns and a wing. Finds them first.
BUFFALO. The carrier. No tubes, a double bay, and the wing locks faster. The swarm is the gun.
VOLE. The scout. The fastest hull flying. Reads debris by eye, refits outside a station, carries half again the fuel.
SABLE. The ghost. The quietest thing in the sky. Its first mount fires without breaking silence.
VULTURE. The salvor. Deep salvage optics built in, and the salvage slot rides free.
HELIOS. The diver. Scoops the corona and vents while it does.
MULE. The hauler. Twice the hold, and cargo adds no noise.
TOMCAT. The brawler. Knife range. Built to be hit. Repair paste goes half again as far.
GUNGNIR. The lancer. Torpedoes with intent. Built to kill capital hulls.
ZEPHYR. The picket. Forty percent more scan range, and locking adds no signature.
FRAME 12. Classified. The registry refuses to describe this hull.

The Dead Orbit Sessions

The SALVOR ADRIFT soundtrack cover. The wordmark stacked over the star chart.

Seventeen tracks, made for this game. The soundtrack was made with Suno, an AI music tool, directed by the developer.

Star Jump Atlas · Drift Beacon · Dead Orbit Signal · Voidwake · Ghost Frequency · Deadlight Drift · Charting the Dark · Still Listening · Gridfall I · Deep Orbit · Orbital Ember Drift · Gate is Green · Broken Beacon · Funk Star · Salvage Drift · Static Frame · Between Wells · GT523

Frequently Asked

What is SALVOR ADRIFT?

A lo fi space salvage game. You wake adrift in a salvage frame. Strip wrecks and dead capital hulls for parts, fuel and gear, fit your frame, manage your heat, and take the wells from the machines that hold them. Two hundred star systems. Designed and built by one person.

When is SALVOR ADRIFT coming out?

No date yet. It is going to Steam. Act One is free to play on this page right now.

What platforms will it be on?

Steam on Windows, macOS and Linux. English only for now. The free Act One demo runs in a desktop browser.

How does it play?

Top down flight with weight to it. One automatic lock serves every gun, and every shot builds heat. A hot frame cannot dock, cruise or jump until it vents. Drones join the fights you are in and never start one. The build log goes through every system.

Is there a demo or playtest?

Yes. Act One is free and plays on this page, with nothing to install. The full game is in a closed playtest that runs in a desktop browser. Apply on the playtest page.

Open a Channel

Press, streamers, whoever. salvoradrift@gmail.com

Build notes and screenshots go up on Facebook, Instagram and Discord.

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