Games like Rift Drifter
If Rift Drifter is your kind of game, the closest matches are PLATVERSE: ABYA's Adventure, Crown Of Silence and Salt and Sacrifice — picked from the ranked list below. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →About Rift Drifter: Explore a lost and abandoned temple and find what secrets lie within. Rift Drifter is a 2D action-adventure platformer, with Metroidvania and RPG elements, a rich story, and a hint of souls-like combat.
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Steam players who put hours into Rift Drifter also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.
PLATVERSE: ABYA's Adventure
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Top pick for Rift Drifter fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Rift Drifter.
Shoot to move in a hardcore precision platformer. As ABYA, a robot from ruins, use your floating cannon to trigger mechanisms, flip platforms, and launch through a post-human world guided by AI Deus. Every shot counts; one mistake resets. Uncover the truth.
Crown Of Silence
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Rift Drifter fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Rift Drifter.
Crown Of Silence is a 2D Metroidvania adventure with Souls-like mechanics set in a gothic world. Forge your own combat style with diverse equipment, challenge ruthless bosses, and uncover the dark secrets of a silenced kingdom through environmental storytelling.
Salt and Sacrifice
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Rift Drifter fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Rift Drifter.
Join your fellow Marked Inquisitors in this online coop successor to award-winning 2016 Soulslike Salt and Sanctuary.
Frontier Hunter: Erza’s Wheel of Fortune
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Rift Drifter fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Rift Drifter.
This is an anime-style Metroidvania game with an RPG progression system, numerous weapons for switching, and an emphasis on equipment building. It offers three switchable characters, smooth gameplay, impactful combat feedback, and anime-style story scenes.
Afterimage
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Ranked #5 for Rift Drifter fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Rift Drifter.
Afterimage is a hand-drawn 2D action adventure that emphasizes fast-paced combat with diversified character builds, non-linear levels, and a gripping story set in the ruins of a fantasy world.
Blasphemous 2
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Rift Drifter fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Rift Drifter.
The Penitent One awakens as Blasphemous 2 joins him once again in an endless struggle against The Miracle. Dive into a perilous new world filled with mysteries and secrets to discover, and tear your way through monstrous foes that stand between you and your quest to end the cycle once and for all.
A Valley Without Wind 2
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Ranked #7 for Rift Drifter fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Rift Drifter.
A modern take on the 16-bit era, A Valley Without Wind 2 blends a variety of mechanics across multiple genres, seamlessly bringing together the best qualities of old-school platform-shooters and turn-based strategy games.
Death's Gambit: Afterlife
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Rift Drifter fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Rift Drifter.
Death's Gambit: Afterlife is a challenging 2D action platformer with deep RPG elements. As an agent of Death bound to his service, unravel the mystery of Siradon and discover the true price of immortality.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Rift Drifter at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
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Priced ~83% under Rift Drifter on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Rift Drifter.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
Buckshot Roulette
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Priced ~50% under Rift Drifter on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Rift Drifter.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
The Test
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Priced ~67% under Rift Drifter on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Rift Drifter.
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
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Priced ~75% under Rift Drifter on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Rift Drifter.
A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.
Blood and Bacon
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Priced ~83% under Rift Drifter on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Rift Drifter.
This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.
Crypt of the NecroDancer
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Priced ~50% under Rift Drifter on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Rift Drifter.
Crypt of the NecroDancer is an award winning hardcore roguelike rhythm game. Move to the music and deliver beatdowns to the beat! Groove to the epic Danny Baranowsky soundtrack, or select songs from your own MP3 collection!
Super Hexagon
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Priced ~50% under Rift Drifter on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Rift Drifter.
Super Hexagon is a minimal action game by Terry Cavanagh, with music by Chipzel.
Nodebuster
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Rift Drifter on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Rift Drifter.
Nodebuster is a short, experimental incremental game about busting nodes and destroying reality.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Rift Drifter.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Rift Drifter.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Rift Drifter.
A Short Handcrafted Pixel Art Platformer that follows Sheepy, an abandoned plushy brought to life. Sheepy: A Short Adventure is the first short game from MrSuicideSheep.
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Rift Drifter.
A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.
The Expendabros
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Rift Drifter.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
UNBEATABLE [white label]
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Rift Drifter.
A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.
Star Fetchers
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Rift Drifter.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
Magic Archery
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Rift Drifter.
Train a commoner to become the greatest archer in this short incremental game! Increase your stats, gather wealth from quests, buy upgrades, and infuse your arrows with magic.
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Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Salt and Sacrifice
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action with Rift Drifter.
Join your fellow Marked Inquisitors in this online coop successor to award-winning 2016 Soulslike Salt and Sanctuary.
Afterimage
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Rift Drifter.
Afterimage is a hand-drawn 2D action adventure that emphasizes fast-paced combat with diversified character builds, non-linear levels, and a gripping story set in the ruins of a fantasy world.
Blasphemous 2
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Rift Drifter.
The Penitent One awakens as Blasphemous 2 joins him once again in an endless struggle against The Miracle. Dive into a perilous new world filled with mysteries and secrets to discover, and tear your way through monstrous foes that stand between you and your quest to end the cycle once and for all.
Death's Gambit: Afterlife
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Rift Drifter.
Death's Gambit: Afterlife is a challenging 2D action platformer with deep RPG elements. As an agent of Death bound to his service, unravel the mystery of Siradon and discover the true price of immortality.
Frequently asked about Rift Drifter
- How much does Rift Drifter cost?
- Rift Drifter is listed on Steam at 5.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Rift Drifter have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Rift Drifter supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online Co-op, LAN Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Rift Drifter?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Rift Drifter are PLATVERSE: ABYA's Adventure, Crown Of Silence, Salt and Sacrifice.
- Who developed Rift Drifter?
- Rift Drifter was developed by Žygimantas Kadiša, Danielius Rugienius and published by Žygimantas Kadiša, Danielius Rugienius.
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