Abyss Drifter is taking part in Ukrainian Games Festival 2026, running on Steam from August 17 to 24.
If this is your first time here: Abyss Drifter is a first-person space courier sim. You haul cargo between planets and stations in a system that was cut off from Earth after AI was banned. There is no autopilot, no waypoint, and nobody coming to help — you fuel the ship by hand, crack your air out of ice, and find a settlement by reading your instruments.
What's new
The store page has been rebuilt for the festival, with new capsule art, a rewritten description and new footage of systems that went in over the last few weeks:
- Suits. Your suit carries its own oxygen, water and power. Charge it, fill it, and check it before you step outside — everything out there runs on a clock.
- Survival. Hunger, thirst, fatigue and radiation, plus vitamin deficiency from living on cheap synthetic rations.
- Cargo, reworked. You load crates yourself and watch the hold fill up.
- Refuelling by hand. Open the hatch, seat the nozzle, set the amount on the terminal. Far from any station, it's fuel barrels carried in your own hold instead.
What's next
A demo is in the works — it will land at a Steam Next Fest once the core systems are finished. Until then, the fastest way to hear about it is to wishlist the game.
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Thanks to everyone at Ukrainian Games for putting the festival together, and go take a look at what the rest of the lineup is showing this week.