Driftkeep is a community-driven multiplayer idle RPG where time flows differently. Your character continues to progress even when you're offline, and you work together with other players on weekly community goals. It's designed to respect your time while still offering meaningful progression and social interaction.

How does offline progression work?

When you log off, your character keeps adventuring in their current zone for up to 24 hours, earning gold, XP and resources at a reduced rate compared with playing live. When you return, you'll see a summary of everything gained. Your offline progress also contributes to active community goals.

What are community goals?

Every week, the realm faces a shared challenge - like relighting the forge or defending against invasions. All players contribute their progress toward these goals. When milestones are reached, everyone who participated earns rewards.

Is Driftkeep free to play?

Driftkeep is free to play during early access. We're still finalising our monetisation approach, but we're committed to respecting your time. No pay-to-win mechanics - any purchases will be cosmetic or convenience items that don't affect gameplay balance.

Can I play with friends?

Yes! Add friends, form a party to fight together and share XP, chat in real time or by whisper, and see other players in every zone. Everyone contributes to the same community goals and competes on the leaderboards. Guilds are planned for a future update.

What platforms is Driftkeep available on?

Play in any modern web browser, or download the desktop version for Windows, macOS or Linux, which updates itself. There are no mobile apps yet. Your progress is saved to your account, so it follows you whichever way you play.

How do I report bugs or give feedback?

We love hearing from players! Join our Discord community to report bugs, suggest features, and chat with the development team. As an early access game, player feedback directly shapes development priorities.

All patch notes

Releasev0.12.024 September 2026

The Return

Driftkeep is back. 0.12.0 rebuilds combat so the server runs every fight, gives new players a clear path to their first kill, rebalances levelling and loot, and brings new menus, art and item icons along with a long list of fixes from the months since June.

New

Rebuilt combat. Click a monster and you fight it and its pack until you walk away. The server runs every fight, so AFK combat carries on through kills, respawns and reconnects, and walking away always works
A proper start for new players. Labelled Map (M) and Quests (J) buttons, a travel step on your first quest, a marker over your first slime, and one welcome screen instead of a pile of pop-ups
A new main menu. Character select shows your hero in their real gear, beside the community goal, the latest patch notes and community links. Settings open from every menu screen
Mailbox. Loot, quest rewards, crafts and offline gathering that don't fit in your bags go to your Mail instead of vanishing. Claim it all in one click
Item icons for tools, ores, bars, gems, hides, fish and quest items, in every bag, shop and crafting list, on the ground and on the wiki
New gear art. Three new swords (Wraithbone Blade, Runic Blade, Riftblade), a leather vest, plate and the Glacial Body, and metal swords and chestplates now show their material's colour
Every zone has its own look. Each zone gets its own palette (Frozen Wastes has snow now), and Goblin Woods is redrawn with Grimtooth's walled warcamp and the Stillfall oak
The Void Stalker and The Riftmaw have their own animated sprites
Auto or manual, per skill. Right-click a skill-bar slot to switch it between auto-cast (gold A) and manual (grey M)
What's New. Patch notes show in game after an update, on the website and on the forum
A Leaderboard tab in the Social panel, and the current community goal on your HUD
Graphics settings for phones and browsers. Choose your world resolution, your screen resolution on web, and a battery saver for when you're idle. Phones start on the lighter setting
A livelier world. Recent chat is waiting when you log in, and the server hears about new drifters, every tenth level, Community Spirit and world boss kills
Reward moments. Light rays on rare drops, toasts for epic and legendary loot, celebrations for life-skill levels, class unlocks, prestige, new zones and enchant jackpots
Your character sheet shows gold, XP and kills per hour this session, plus lifetime kills, deaths, damage and playtime. Portraits show your real gear
You can delete your account yourself from the website

Improved

Levelling rebalanced. One smooth XP curve to 250, with no wall at 151, and you keep your level. Out-levelled zones give less XP, and quest and daily XP scale with your level
Fair kill credit. Top damage and anyone with 25% or more get full rewards, 5 to 25% earns an assist (30% of the XP and gold, no loot), and under 5% gets nothing. World bosses are unchanged
Runs better on phones and in browsers. Crowds cost a fraction of what they did to draw, each player gets far less network traffic, and busy zones stay smooth
Zones hold fewer monsters, spread across the map instead of heaped where you arrive
Gear rebalance. Sundered Rift gear and The Driftkeeper now follow the same power curve as everything else. Pieces you own were rescaled in place and keep their roll, so expect lower numbers
The Driftkeeper and Azor Bars no longer drop from every monster, slimes included
Crafting gear and tools has a small workshop fee (bars stay free), and enchanting uses zone materials matched to the item's level
Story quests unlock at the level of the zone they send you to
Kill quests count every variant, so any slime counts towards "Kill 5 Slimes"
A steadier interface. Menus, the HUD, shop, crafting and inventory no longer jump around, and toasts stay up long enough to read
Respecs, loot filter Apply and Abandon quest ask first, and failed actions tell you why
Double-click to equip or use, a Max button in shops, Esc opens Settings, dots for unspent points, and Enter plays your last hero
The daily reward has a button you can reopen and shows real item names
Chat: /w works and opens a DM tab, times show in your time zone, Up and Down recall what you sent, drafts survive a disconnect, and chat stays put while you read back
Leave it open on another monitor. The game keeps fighting at a lighter frame rate, and new whispers and @mentions show in the window title
Add a friend or travel to their zone from their profile, with toasts for friends coming online and forum replies
Reconnecting is tougher: the game keeps trying, recovers from a silent connection, and can warn you before a planned restart
Kicks and bans now tell you why and for how long
The welcome-back screen shows life-skill XP and no longer lists ore you didn't get
Unverified accounts share the new-player chat limits until they verify, and new usernames are checked against look-alikes
The website has patch notes and a live "drifters online" strip, and the Discord bot no longer shows your gold to everyone

Fixed

AFK loot is never lost. Drops you don't pick up are collected for you: into your bags, your mailbox if they're full, or sold if both are
Combat no longer stalls, snaps back to an old target or keeps swinging after the kill. Swings play once per hit, misses animate, and monsters face who they attack
Coming back to a background browser tab jumps straight to now instead of fast-forwarding through everything you missed
Progress could be lost on relog or when a save landed at the wrong moment. Saves no longer overlap, and gold, items and equipment are written together
The Windows auto-updater could delete the folder you unzipped the game into. It now only touches its own files
Password reset emails now work
Offline gathering pays for every resource, counts from logout, and mails what doesn't fit
Full-bag pickups go to your Mail instead of expiring, and ground drops no longer slow long sessions
Copper ore nodes are visible again, and each ore has its own colour
Goblins drop Goblin Hide again, so iron-tier gear can be crafted
The Bronze Bar recipe that skipped tin is gone
Quest items can no longer be equipped
Quests check your items at turn-in, and kills only count towards your current step
Daily reward gold is added correctly
Respecs refund from your real level and keep your gear's bonuses
Loot and crafting use your new level straight after a level-up
Deleting a character no longer shows a false "Character not found"
The crafting panel no longer pops open, or blocks clicks, when you view Recipes
Other players show as down when they die, even if they were down when you arrived
Monsters no longer vanish or freeze after respawning, and packed monsters stop vibrating
Your shadow is back under your feet, and name labels stay put
Parties keep to their size limit and invites respect blocks
Changing zone from a room, or entering a second room, no longer leaves you stuck
Bank withdraw-all moves the right amount
Whispers to someone who just left say they're offline, not "delivered"
The death screen no longer gets stuck if a respawn message goes missing
The forum chatbox shows global chat again, and web messages reach the game

Under the hood

Security and privacy hardening across accounts, chat, the forum and staff tools, including rotating login tokens and ending game sessions on a password change
The server copes with far bigger crowds: combat no longer waits on the database, and you only get updates for what's near you. We tested 500 players in one zone
Much smaller network messages. The inventory and bank send changes, not full copies
An out-of-date client is asked to update instead of joining a broken session
A smaller first download on the web, and effects that cost frames in browsers are pre-baked
Limits on friend request, party invite, mention, forum post and potion spam
Flagged chat is kept for a year for moderation, then deleted, and the privacy policy now matches the game

Known issues

Attack speed from gear affixes, enchants and five class skills (Quick Draw, Bloodlust, Time Warp, Adrenaline, Glory) currently has no effect
Offline XP is well below online XP in some zones since the rebalance
Drop rates haven't been retuned yet, so higher zones and endgame crafting can feel slow. Loot pacing is next
Some gear lists flat HP, damage or armour that doesn't apply. Only the rolled stat and affixes count
In the redrawn Goblin Woods, some monsters, nodes and fishing spots aren't placed for the new map yet
Some monsters still use placeholder art or vanish on death, and downed players show as a greyed-out pose for now
Windows desktop: the 0.11 updater can't install this version. Download 0.12 from driftkeep.com once and updates work in game again