World of Cogheim / The Drifter

Where Every Story Starts

The Drifter

Before you earn a Strider of your own, you live on this one. Market stalls under a glass skylight, a tavern that already knows your name, a corridor someone else already calls home. This is day one — and day one is already this alive.

Home Before You've Earned One

Every Cogheim player starts here. Not a menu, not a loading screen with a progress bar — an actual deck, actual people, an actual market with real stalls run by real crew, all of it happening whether you're standing there or not. The Drifter isn't a tutorial you get through. It's the first place that's genuinely yours.

A residential corridor aboard the Drifter, families at their doorways, a welcome mat set into the floor

Someone Already Lives Here

Residential decks with doors that open onto other people's actual lives — not empty set dressing.

The Copper Cog, a crowded tavern deck aboard the Drifter, music and lantern-light

The Copper Cog

Music, lantern-light, and a full house most nights. Find out who's actually running this ship over a drink.

Engineers at work in the Gearworks, assembling an Iron Frame exoskeleton

The Gearworks

Watch an Iron Frame get built from the ground up — the shop floor, not a cutscene.

The Drifter's trophy archive, glass cases of relics and campaign memorabilia

The Archive

History, kept. Every trophy in that case was earned by someone who was standing right where you're standing.

The First Voice You'll Hear

"You're not a passenger here. Nobody is."

That's Tiffany Cloud-Field — Captain of the Drifter, and the first voice every player hears in all of Cogheim. Not a tutorial narrator reading you a script. A person, actually in command of the ship you're standing on, actually talking to you.

The Drifter is where the whole game starts — and it's already this full of life before you've even walked its decks. Come see the rest of the world it's teaching you to survive.

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