Initus Interactive · ID@Xbox Consideration

Find it. Fly it home.

Pilot a recon drone across a living city. Find what's lost. Bring it home — before your battery dies and your signal fades.

// Mission Briefing

About the Game

Every day, something goes missing in the city — a set of keys, a parcel, a beloved item left on a rooftop. That's where you come in. As the pilot of a nimble recon drone, you launch from base, scan the streets and skyline, and recover the lost item, then carry it all the way back to your operator.

It sounds simple. It isn't always. Your battery is ticking down the whole time, your signal degrades the farther you stray from home, and the city is alive with traffic and ambient bustle. Fly smart, read your instruments, and you'll make it back with time to spare. Push too far, too fast, and you'll be gliding home on a dead motor — or not at all.

Drone Quest pairs a satisfying, physics-flavored flight model with a relaxed pace and a clean, readable HUD. It's the kind of game you can sink into for a few quiet runs, or chase mastery across all of its missions and upgrades.

“A chill-but-tense flight game you can sink into for a few quiet runs.”

Real-feeling drone handling — without the simulator complexity. Every flight is a round trip.

// Flight Systems

Key Features

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Real-feeling flight

Throttle, yaw, pitch and roll with smart altitude hold, tilt-based movement and true-to-life speed limits. Switch between a smooth chase cam and an immersive FPV gimbal view.

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Find & retrieve

Each mission hides a different lost item somewhere in the city. Spot its glow, swoop in, grab it, and bring it home.

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Battery management

Your charge drains as you fly. Plan your route, watch the gauge, and don't get caught out over the far side of town.

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Signal & interference

Stray too far and the feed breaks up — static, scanlines and glitches creep in as your signal weakens. Range upgrades push the boundary back.

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Drone upgrades

Earn longer signal range, a bigger battery and faster top speed — each one changing how far and how boldly you can fly.

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A living city

Toon-styled streets with moving traffic, ambient audio that shifts with your altitude, and emissive markers that pulse to guide you in.

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A HUD that respects you

Compass heading tape, altitude and speed ribbons, a battery readout, and waypoint markers for home and your target — everything you need, nothing you don't.

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Free Flight mode

No objectives, no fail screens. Just you, an extended signal range, a speed boost, and the whole city to roam.

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Built-in tutorial

A guided, animated walkthrough gets new pilots airborne fast.

// Select Mode

Game Modes

CAMPAIGN

Missions

The core campaign. Each mission briefs you on the day's lost item, then sets you loose to find and recover it. Complete missions to earn drone upgrades and work your way through the full run.

SANDBOX

Free Flight

Pure, pressure-free flying. Roam the city with extended signal range and a speed boost — no objectives, no penalties. Crash and you simply respawn and keep going. The perfect place to learn the city or just unwind.

// Pilot Manual

How to Play

Drone Quest is built for the Xbox controller.

InputAction
Left StickThrottle & yaw — climb / descend (up / down) and turn left / right
Right StickPitch & roll — fly forward / back and strafe left / right
Swap SticksSwitch the left / right stick layout in Settings
Right TriggerBoost
AArm / start the motors (take off)
D-Pad ↑ / ↓Tilt the camera gimbal
XToggle Follow cam / FPV view
YShow mission details
Menu ☰Open in-game settings / pause
// Feed

Media

A look through the drone's eye. (Replace placeholders with real assets before launch.)

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Chase cam over the city skyline
FPV view approaching a glowing target
HUD close-up — compass, battery, waypoints
Signal interference at the edge of range
Returning the item to base — mission complete
// Specs

System & Platform

Target platformXbox
StatusIn development · ID@Xbox consideration
InputXbox controller (required)
OptionsSwappable stick layout · Master / Music / SFX / UI volume
// Comms

Press Kit & Contact

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Press kit includes logos, key art, screenshots, trailer and fact sheet.

Fact Sheet

Title
Drone Quest
Developer / Publisher
Initus Interactive
Platform
Xbox
Genre
Arcade flight / exploration
Players
Single-player
Status
In development
Submission
ID@Xbox consideration
Release date
TBD