A strange signal leads to a derelict spaceship drifting abandoned in space. Claiming it leads to a crew, and the crew leads to the life the player always wanted: captaining a ship in the vastness of space. Starlight Drifter is a sci-fi RPG structured primarily as a visual novel with open-world elements, in which the captain takes on missions, builds relationships with crew members—some of which may become intimate—and shapes how their name is remembered across the universe.