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-Daily Challenge Beta Test Is Live / Soundtrack Vinyl & CD Details-

Hello Drifters,

After much blood, sweat, and a few minor electrocutions, the Daily Challenge Update is ready for beta testing!

Switch to the BETA branch on Steam to check it out. Here are the details:

Take on a new seeded challenge each day. Here are 3 examples:

Boss Rush: Face a gauntlet of every boss. Bosses are faster and much tougher. You earn massively increased score and experience.


Serpentine Drift: Begin your journey as a Leviathan and munch orbs to increase your size. Protect your head, and don't chomp your own tail! Your only threats are cosmic hazards and yourself.


Super Nova Brothers: Begin your journey alongside a unique and powerful Ally construct. You and the Ally share a portion of damage taken.


Other modes include: 20-Point Draft, 45-Point Draft, Cosmic Egg, Purity, Turbo, Turbo Endless, and Way Of The Sword.

Also, we have more information on the Soundtrack Kickstarter Campaign:



  • We are making CDs as well as Vinyl.
  • We are pressing on BioVinyl, which is fossil-fuel-free.
  • It launches on May 20th.
  • Please sign up to be notified here when it starts!
  • Tell your drifting buddies who also might be interested! We'll need a few hundred people to pledge in order to make our goal.


Thanks for testing, and potentially supporting the soundtrack campaign as well.

Take care,

-Miles @ Pixeljam

Poll: Should We Release The Nova Drift OST on Vinyl?

Hello all,

I'm considering pressing up vinyl for the Nova Drift Soundtrack, but I only want to move forward on it if there is enough interest. It would not be the entire soundtrack (since it's almost 3 hours long), but probably 2 discs (4 sides, about 15-20 mins each side) of select tracks from the OST, with some player input about what's included as well.

So... drop any comment here (doesn't matter what the comment says, "+1" is good enough) if you would actually be interested in purchasing it on release. Price would probably be around 30 dollars for a double disc set or 20 dollars for a single disc, depending on how many we made and the production cost of each. Thanks!

- Miles @ Pixeljam

Popular rogue-lite space shooter Nova Drift gets updated for Steam Deck verification

Nova Drift from developer Chimeric is a very well-received rogue-lite space shooter that released back in 2024, and the dev continues working on it. The latest update includes some changes to improve it on Steam Deck.

Read the full article here: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/01/popular-rogue-lite-space-shooter-nova-drift-gets-updated-for-steam-deck-verification/

Steam Deck Hotfix - V. 1.1.12

Made a few changes to comply with Steam Deck verification requirements:
  • Fixed non-value settings items getting greyed out incorrectly on Steam Deck
  • Fixed Window Size setting being selectable on Steam Deck
  • Fixed loading and saving settings that are disabled on Steam Deck
  • Fixed Custom Skin sprite overlapping the score on the End Score screen
  • Upgrade screen descriptions now use the standard-scaling small font to comply with Steam Deck text size requirements
  • We now hide key indicators in construct UI when using gamepad controls
  • We now don't grey out the Online Leaderboard setting item on Steam Deck
  • Fixed line wrapping length in end game unlock messages

- Nova Drift x Genome Guardian Bundle Launched -

Announcing our latest Steam Bundle:



Genome Guardian is a criminally underexposed game and I aim to do something about it. It's a perfect fit alongside Nova Drift, so we are bundling UP.

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Genome Guardian is a turret roguelite survival game. There's a lot I like about it. It's well presented, creative, funny, and inventive. There is also a huge amount of content to unlock.



I particularly like the weapon combination system which is a blast to experiment with. Any combination of Pistol, Shotgun, SMG, or Bomb results in a unique weapon type, for a total of 70 weapons.



Just as you starting to master it, it'll surprise you with entirely new game modes, like one that transforms the game from a central turret config to a vertical shooter.

Complete the bundle by clicking here, as HARD as you can.

Cell Command!

Alpherior's next game, Cell Command, is also shaping up to be very interesting. I'm pretty interested to see where this is going, so I'll be following for sure.



Check it out, maybe drop a wish list?