Driftbound: Idle Space RPG
Ed Rackham Games iPhoneiPadiPod touch
Driftbound: Idle Space RPG is a paid Games app for iPhone and iPad by Ed Rackham. Rated 4.8/5 from 13 ratings. Requires iOS 15.0. Updated October 12, 2026.
- Rating
- 4.8
- 13 ratings
- Price
- 3.99 USD
- on the App Store
- Size
- 148 MB
- Age 9+
- Updated
- Oct 12
- 2026 · v1.9.11
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About Driftbound: Idle Space RPG
A mining run, a profitable trade route, or one more pirate to take down. What does your ship need next? Driftbound is an idle space RPG where you start with one ship and work your way from the safe core worlds to the lawless rim. Mine, craft, trade and fight through a procedurally generated universe. Set your ship to work, close the game and come back to see how it went. MAKE A LIVING IN SPACE Mine asteroid belts, harvest gas, scan for salvage and turn raw materials into better gear. Stations have their own economies, so a full cargo hold is worth more if you know where to sell it. Take delivery jobs, follow leads from station residents, or carry contraband past customs if you're willing to risk your cargo. PICK A SIDE IN THE FACTION WAR Earn a faction's trust and take its oath. Complete three Orders a week, climb ten Merit ranks and choose a doctrine that suits how you play. Patrols, deliveries and scans help push your side's front. Watch systems change hands, hunt named captains, intercept convoys and work towards a Warlord's stronghold. Special war encounters wait for you to start the fight. BUILD A SHIP THAT CAN HANDLE IT Fit weapons, shields, engines and cargo upgrades. Craft equipment, collect rare modules and choose perks for the jobs you enjoy. Fight pirates with automatic weapons, then decide when to fire a missile, repair or get out. Better gear opens up tougher places with better salvage. THERE'S MORE AFTER YOUR FIRST RUN Follow the campaign and faction stories, hatch space pets and collect outfits and trophies. Re-enlist to earn Renown for permanent Admiralty upgrades. Push into harder Deep Runs or descend into the Undertow to see how far your build can take you. Your pets stay with you when you re-enlist. PLAY AT YOUR OWN PACE Travel, work, pet incubation and ordinary combat can progress while you're away. The return report shows what happened, and you can carry on with a mission or change your plans. Offline play works without the online features. Connect when you want to trade with other players on the Exchange, see nearby pilots or try a friendly duel. No ads, in-app purchases or subscriptions. No account signup required. Pixel-art ships and worlds, adjustable text size, and nine languages: English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, German, Italian, Czech, Bulgarian and Simplified Chinese.
Ratings & reviews
4.8
13 ratings
What’s new
Version 1.9.11 · Updated October 12, 2026
Driftbound 1.9.11: the Drift Forge gets its own page, the Codex gets a Journal, a People page and a Loot Log, and the map search finds goods. The Drift Forge has a page of its own. The Workbench opens on a Bench / Drift Forge switch, so an ordinary craft is no longer a scroll past the whole Drift book. On the forge page every ingredient says where it drops, turns amber when you are short and opens its sheet on a tap, with the nine materials and their rules underneath. Search for a good, and see everyone who sells it. The map's destination search now matches what a market stocks, so typing a weapon core lists the stations that carry one. An item's sheet has an All sellers list, nearest first, with a course to each. Three new records in the Codex, all kept through re-enlistment. A Mission Journal: every mission you have finished, who gave it, the briefing and the debrief, the choice you made and what it paid. A People page: everyone you have spoken to, with a course home and the missions you ran for them. A Loot Log: rare finds and better, eggs, keepsakes, gear, modules and every reward, newest first, each with the belt, wreck, derelict, mission or person it came from. Any item's sheet now lists everywhere you have found it. A Space Farm's Pet Market buys your spare eggs back at a quarter of the shelf price. A banked Overclock is now kept for a haul of an hour or more, and its gold button no longer fires when you were only scrolling the recap. The back control follows you down a long page, so a Shipyard slot or a Codex list can be left from wherever you are.
App privacy
The developer, Ed Rackham, reported these privacy practices to Apple.
Data Not Linked to You
The following data, which may be collected but is not linked to your identity, may be used for the following purposes:
- Usage Data: Product Interaction
- Diagnostics: Crash Data, Performance Data, Other Diagnostic Data
- Identifiers: User ID
- Other Data: Other Data Types
Used for: Analytics, App Functionality
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