Tail Drift

This almost seems like a mobile port, and yet it does not at the same time. Using WASD to control you plane, you are some how magnetically tied to a spiraling pole that curves around the mini world you are racing in and forms a track. On this pole, there are powerups that you can use to boost you forward and away from the pole for a little time. The first race consisted of the classic, you against the bots, I was able to defeat it easily, but at the end, all of the bots behind me were throwing some kind of fireball things at me that when they hit hit, caused me to spin in a circle and lose speed. They only managed to hit me with this "power" at the end, but once I was hit once, I was an easy target for everyone, and all the bots were hitting me with it, causing me to spin endlessly, luckily, I was near the finish line, so I still finished first. That being said, I could not find where was my ability to use these "fireballs". Also, all the bots aiming at me got a little annoying, and it was only luck that I managed to spin myself over the finish line. The second race was a time lap. As I mentioned before, there are boosters on the 'pipe' or track that speed you forward, and in order to win, you just have to hit all of those and non of the walls rocks, or things surrounding the track. This immeadiately showed me that the controlabilty of the planes was just awful, however, it didn't matter since I think it was meant to be that way, by the beggining of the third lap, I was able to complete the course with the max 3 stars by memory, which was what the game wanted I think. Overall, not that bad of a game, for a pricetag of $2, there could be worst things on steam you could buy. You will get that "mobile port" feeling when you first start to play, but its not a bad game. Though I think i would pay a dollar for it.

Tail Drift is a nice, promising racing game, in early access, but looking fairly complete. It uses the unity engine, but (because of the multi-platform release maybe?) looks a little bit like a flash game. You don't really drive, but you fly around a (magnetic?) pipe that represents the track. You can't fly off the track or get your plane to explode - if you hit a wall you're slowed, sometimes significantly, and that's all that matters. As a mobile port - you need to gather stars to progress in the game, while you gather coins on the tracks to upgrade your plane or buy a new one. There are quite a few coins on the track, but I think there is a cap on the reward you can receive upon completion (250, 350). The music is reasonable, but, I think, I only heard like 2-3 tracks, so there is a room for improvement. The controls are fine, I used keyboard, and it worked great. Maybe an option to rebind the keys might be useful, but the default keys work just fine. The gameplay modes are nice - the classic race is "ok", as the opponents are not the brightest, but Time Trail and Time Extension is where the game shines in my opinion, as you can always try and do better. A steam leaderboards for those modes will greatly benefit the game. At the moment all available planes are the same tier, so I don't see a reason for buying a new one, instead of upgrading your plane with the money you get, but more planes and tracks are coming, according to the developer. What I personally really dislike, is that the game spins up all your available hard drives before start, and I find that really pointless and super annoying. Coming off a Halloween sale and into a Christmas one, I really can't recommend the game for the full price tag, but then again I really do enjoy it, so I feel this dire need for a "wait and see / wait for sale" review option in Steam. Once the VR support comes and other cool features, I'll probably rework my statement. TL:DR you can see my overview / first impressions video here : http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=337900202

※残念ながら、1年以上開発が進んでないようです。 検討中の方はこのまま開発が進まないことを前提に買うほうがいいでしょう。 チューブの外周を走る手軽な操作の爽快レースゲーム。難易度は低く操作も優しい割に派手。 飛行機で自由に空を飛べそうに見えるが、チューブに張り付いてぐるぐる回るF-ZEROやwipeoutのような感覚。 操作は簡単で左右とアイテムの使用のみ。自動加速でアクセルもドリフトも存在しません。手軽とはいえ物足りなさのある操作ですが、 コースが円形なので普通のレースと違う最短経路や遠心力を考えたコース取りが必要で、外側に遠心力かかるとコースから浮いてタイムロス、内側だとそれらがない、しかしブースト板を踏むには、ねじれを直線に進めば…などなど、ねじれた遠心力のあるコースを最短に進む経路を見つけるのは新感覚。カメラやスピード感はソニックジェネレーションのようでこれまた楽しい。ピコピコサウンドも◎。 プレイ時間は1時間半ですべてクリアと短いし、コントローラー対応も不十分と小さな問題はあるが楽しい。早期アクセスながら十分に楽しめる段階まで仕上がっている。さらなる今後に期待。 -----その他------ -キャリアモードで全部星3つの満点をとってストレートに進んでも、コース選択時に警告される推奨改造度にはお金が足りないが、問題なく勝てる。 -マシンのアップグレードやゲーム終了時にはマウス、もしくはキーボード操作が必要なので注意したい。マシン選択画面で性能をあげたい部分をマウスで選択すると強化できる。タイトル画面でEsc、もしくは右上の✕を押して終了できる

It could be a fun for kids game But Devs forgot about it... Dont waist your money on an unfinished and abandoned game.

A very poor, very unfinished copy of the actually good SkyDrift. Tail Drift only contains two tracks, one of which is locked behind a wall of highly repetitive grinding for plane upgrades. The camera is nightmarish, not at all following your plane how you'd think it would and making the game a "delight" for those of us who are prone to bouts of vertigo. Should you power through the grind and unlock track number two you'll find there's nothing beyond that point. Tail Drift has multiple "coming soon" images throughout the game showcasing features which are clearly never going to be added. Best to avoid this one, folks.

Worth a little time in a bundle but nowhere near a $9.99 game. 5/10 in a bundle 1/10 at full price. Don't pay more than $1 for it.

Had potential, lots of it. Could've been pretty great if the devs kept working on it, but it doesn't look like they are.

In Tail Drift you buy a plane and race other planes along some kind of tube. The tube is basically your 'road', you can't 'fall off' the tube but you can fly upside down and get boosts and ammo like most other party games like Sonic Racing Transformed. There are the usual kind of modes like Time Trial. The game looks good and is pretty fun aswell but I *did* say it was a party game, right? This is suppose to be a game you could play with some friends or at least online and that's exactly the problem of Tail Drift at this point. There's no option to play multiplayer or even local with some buddies so basically what you get is a race game that's pretty fun but to me there should be multiplayer (and/or local), online leaderboards or at least some achievements, this game doesn't have any of that. However, the game is still in Early Access and it has the potential to become a fun game if the developers add the things I just mentioned and I will happily update this review.

I nearly finished the second league and then I noticed that the third one says "Coming soon". At this moment I thought this was just another mobile port, but now I saw that it's Early Access. This game is going to be great.

操控感十分诡异，玩家操纵着一架绕着一根管子飞来飞去的飞机，左右键分别是顺时针/逆时针绕着管子旋转，但飞机本身在过弯的时候就会受到某种神秘力量的吸引（磁力？）而绕着管子旋转&……