Drain Runner

Drain Runner

Nothing Interactive · August 5, 2022 · Action Roguelike, Runner, Action, Parkour, Skating

Drain Runner is free to play — no purchase needed. We track it so you know if that ever changes.

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Mixed53% · 19
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Drain Runner price

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About Drain Runner

Venture into The Drain's treacherous waterways in Drain Runner, a student project made by a group of aspiring game developers! Play as Killbert, a stubborn criminal scavenger who braves The Drain at the promise of priceless treasures from a bygone era. Use his magnetic arm and killer instinct to survive the denizens that inhabit The Drain as you rail-grind and blast your way through a series of evocative trashpunk environments. Collect valuable items and complete objectives to improve your odds of survival!

Core mechanics:
- Rail grind on pipes to quickly get out of harm's way and gain a positional advantage on enemies
- Watch as The Drain itself evolves in real time during your playthrough
- Attract and repulse objects with Killbert's magnetic arm
- Complete objectives and explore the environment to get powerful buffs
- Master traversal to escape The Drain's intermittent floods as they wash pieces of the level away

Controls:

WASD - Move
Left Click - Shoot
Right Click - Magnetize
E (on ground) - Melee
E (on rail) - Boost
E (in air) - Ground Slam
E (with magnetized item) - Repulse
S (on rail) - Switch directions
A/D - Switch orientation

Drain Runner — game info

Platforms
Windows
Player modes
Single-player
Controller
Partial controller support
PC Game Pass
Not included

What Steam players say

Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.

✦ AI summary

Drain Runner is a free parkour platformer with striking visuals that blend distinctive aesthetics, but players are divided on its core experience. While some praise it as an engaging roguelike action game, others criticize the procedural generation for creating repetitive, samey level design that lacks the polish and fluid movement of similar games like Sunset Overdrive. The game's worth depends on your tolerance for experimental indie projects, as the visual appeal and novel concept may not fully compensate for concerns about gameplay depth and optimization issues.

Not recommended Nov 13, 2024
"Drain Runner" is a "procgen is content!!!" third person parkour platformer with a big focus on using samey procgen algorithms instead of deliberate, narrative driven progressive level design... which is a lot of words to say once you've played this for 5 minutes you've seen everything. The graphics in this game are really quite good, which at least makes the game look more appealing. And while it's vital for any game to have impressive visuals (gaming is a visual medium, after all), there's more to a game than just the graphics. To be worth a gamers time, the game must match top tier visuals with top tier gameplay, and that's not happening here. Not every "free" game really is. There's often MTX, or content locked behind DLC, or donations being requested, or any other number of things that could mislead gamers, but in this case I'm glad to say this really does appear to be a fully free game. Nothing demonstrates a developers belief in themselves and their work than giving it away without any remuneration. This is a service to themselves, and the gaming industry, and should be applauded. Of course, just because something is free, doesn't necessarily mean it's valuable. Ev…
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Recommended Dec 17, 2022
By far one of the most engaging and unpredictable action roguelikes of the century. Infact it may define its own genre as Rogue did with Rogue-likes. In years to come, the up and coming "Drain Runner-likes" will define the next generation of gaming.
3 found this helpful
Not recommended Oct 27, 2022
Interesting concept and aesthetic, but it's just not polished enough. Kinda like Sunset Overdrive but without fluid motion.
2 found this helpful
Recommended Apr 4, 2023
[h1]Before I played Drain Runner, I had a small pp, no friends, no gf, depression, and no life. These things havent changed, but the game is pretty good[/h1]
Not recommended Nov 7, 2022
Hell if i know what to do here :D
Recommended Sep 13, 2022
It's unoptimized, but it's free. Combine the aesthetics of Dorohedoro and Flushed Away, with gameplay akin to Sunset Overdive, and that's what you have here.

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