Games like Rift Loopers
If Rift Loopers is your kind of game, the closest matches are Shape Shifter: Formations, Meta Ghost: Breaking Show and Sharded World — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, challenging and intense. 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 Loopers: Survive the horrors of the multiverse, alone or with your comrades, as you battle against an onslaught of insectoid like creatures. Combine abilities in different ways each loop to overcome and return safely to your universe.
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Shape Shifter: Formations
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with Rift Loopers.
Top pick for Rift Loopers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and RPG with Rift Loopers.
Shape Shifter: Formations is an action twin-stick shooter with rogue-lite elements, where you must destroy hordes of geometric enemies alone or with a friend. Select your ship and combine a large variety of weapons, abilities and infinitely stacking upgrades to craft your own unique build.
Meta Ghost: Breaking Show
WHY THIS
Shares skill tree progression and an atmospheric mood with Rift Loopers.
Second-strongest match for Rift Loopers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Rift Loopers.
Immerse yourself in the reality show — "Breaking Show", where you engage in real-time battles with various intelligent machines using cybernetic enhancements and weapons. Whether for personal gain or lofty ideals. Fight! Until you reach the final victory on this Rogue-lite journey.
Sharded World
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Rift Loopers.
Third-strongest match for Rift Loopers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Rift Loopers.
Sharded World is a reversed bullet hell, rogue-lite, ARPG game combining simple gameplay and great rpg progression. Each level has its own unique features and challenges. Upgradable characters, weapons and orbs. Challenges, daily quests, and leaderboards. Fight, get stronger and defeat the Lich!
Survivor Mercs
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Rift Loopers.
Ranked #4 for Rift Loopers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Rift Loopers.
Purge the billionaires' robot army with your Merc squad! Fast-paced twin-stick action, frantic horde survival, tactical squad-building & tons of loot! Exploit game-breaking synergies to beat the M.E.G.A. Corp. bosses in ever-changing operations. Lock, load, and loot, Commander!
Destropolis
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with Rift Loopers.
Ranked #5 for Rift Loopers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Rift Loopers.
Destropolis is a top-down shooter game with a fully destructible environment, hundreds of enemies and nuclear explosions. Fight a countless swarm of enemies. Tear them to pieces with bullets, lasers and explosions. Destroy as many of them as you can before they overwhelm you...
Champion Shift
WHY THIS
Shares twin stick shooting, co op multiplayer and an intense mood with Rift Loopers.
Ranked #6 for Rift Loopers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Rift Loopers.
Unleash mighty Champions in this thrilling co-op bullet heaven. Shift into battle, create builds with unique abilities, and battle endless enemies to stop the Dominion's path of conquest. Rev through high octane missions, conquer epic bosses, and become an absolute legend!
Neon Chrome
WHY THIS
Shares twin stick shooting and an intense mood with Rift Loopers.
Ranked #7 for Rift Loopers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Rift Loopers.
A masterful combination of top-down shooter and endless replayability with procedural levels. Blast your way through walls & enemies with guns and cybernetic abilities. Install perks from cyber chambers and upgrade your character stats after each death. Can you stop the Overseer?
Section 13
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Rift Loopers.
Ranked #8 for Rift Loopers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Rift Loopers.
Unravel a thrilling sci-fi mystery in this action-packed twin-stick roguelite shooter. Select your load-out, stack up temporary and persistent upgrades, and delve into the depths of a subterranean base, either alone or in a group of up to 3 players.
Reviewers mention these as similar to Rift Loopers
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Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Rift Loopers.
Reviewers of Rift Loopers cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Rift Loopers.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
Spellbook Demonslayers
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Rift Loopers.
Reviewers of Rift Loopers cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Rift Loopers.
Slay endless hordes of demons to protect the Cosmic Library! Steal their abilities, find powerful equipment, and unlock the secrets of each spellbook to become unstoppable! Will you be able to destroy the demonic legion?
Project Lazarus
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Rift Loopers.
Reviewers of Rift Loopers cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Rift Loopers.
You are the first party mech pilot of alien planet colonizers! Project Lazarus is a survival game with rogue-lite elements. Deploy and upgrade your mech to the metal!
Rogue: Genesia
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with Rift Loopers.
Reviewers of Rift Loopers cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and RPG with Rift Loopers.
Walk upon a new world and slay foes endangering it. Rogue : Genesia is an action rogue-lite game, where you fight relentless hordes consisting of hundreds and thousands of monsters, make your build, break the balance, defeat bosses and save one of the many worlds.
Nomad Survival
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Rift Loopers.
Reviewers of Rift Loopers cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Rift Loopers.
Battle against hordes of enemies, conquer Boss encounters, and explore various character and skill combinations in this time-based auto-attacking Roguelite in your quest to become stronger and defeat the most menacing of creatures that lay in wait at the end of each run.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Rift Loopers at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Rift Loopers on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Rift Loopers.
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?
The Test
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Rift Loopers on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with Rift Loopers.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under Rift Loopers on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Rift Loopers.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Rift Loopers on Steam right now. Shares Action with Rift Loopers.
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.
STAR WARS™ Republic Commando™
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Rift Loopers on Steam right now. Shares Action with Rift Loopers.
You are the leader of an elite squad of Republic Commandos, your mission is to infiltrate, dominate, and ultimately, annihilate the enemy. Your squad will follow your orders and your lead, working together as a team - instinctively, intelligently, instantly. You are their leader. They are your weapon.
shapez
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Rift Loopers on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Rift Loopers.
shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!
STAR WARS™ Jedi Knight - Jedi Academy™
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Rift Loopers on Steam right now. Shares Action with Rift Loopers.
Forge your weapon and follow the path of the Jedi Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy is the latest installment of the highly acclaimed Jedi Knight series. Take on the role of a new student eager to learn the ways of the Force from Jedi Master Luke Skywalker.
The Test: Hypothesis Rising
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Rift Loopers on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with Rift Loopers.
The second chapter in The Test trilogy. Answer a series of in-depth questions to reveal hidden truths about yourself and unlock secrets to discover how your life can change drastically with just a few, slight modifications. ...But are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
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 Loopers.
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.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Rift Loopers.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive (CS:GO) expands upon the team-based action gameplay that it pioneered when it was launched over 2 decades ago. CS:GO features new maps, characters, weapons, and game modes, and delivers updated versions of the classic CS content (de_dust2, etc.).
The Expendabros
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Rift Loopers.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
Eternal Senia
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Rift Loopers.
Thoughts and expectations ARPG
Disfigure
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Rift Loopers.
Disfigure is a grim-dark action rogue-like where you battle relentless hordes of monsters lurking in the shadows. Unlock powerful weapons, craft god-like builds with hundreds of upgrades, slay colossal bosses, and push your limits in intense 20–30 minute survival runs!
The Lab
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!
DORONKO WANKO
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Rift Loopers.
『DORONKO WANKO』 is a DORONKO Action Game. In this game, You can become a cute, innocent Pomeranian, make your master's home messy and dirty. "Will the master be angry with me?" Don't worry. Because you are a sweet doggie.
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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.
Shape Shifter: Formations
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with Rift Loopers.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and RPG with Rift Loopers.
Shape Shifter: Formations is an action twin-stick shooter with rogue-lite elements, where you must destroy hordes of geometric enemies alone or with a friend. Select your ship and combine a large variety of weapons, abilities and infinitely stacking upgrades to craft your own unique build.
Survivor Mercs
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Rift Loopers.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Rift Loopers.
Purge the billionaires' robot army with your Merc squad! Fast-paced twin-stick action, frantic horde survival, tactical squad-building & tons of loot! Exploit game-breaking synergies to beat the M.E.G.A. Corp. bosses in ever-changing operations. Lock, load, and loot, Commander!
Destropolis
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with Rift Loopers.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Rift Loopers.
Destropolis is a top-down shooter game with a fully destructible environment, hundreds of enemies and nuclear explosions. Fight a countless swarm of enemies. Tear them to pieces with bullets, lasers and explosions. Destroy as many of them as you can before they overwhelm you...
Section 13
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Rift Loopers.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Rift Loopers.
Unravel a thrilling sci-fi mystery in this action-packed twin-stick roguelite shooter. Select your load-out, stack up temporary and persistent upgrades, and delve into the depths of a subterranean base, either alone or in a group of up to 3 players.
Frequently asked about Rift Loopers
- Does Rift Loopers run on Steam Deck?
- Rift Loopers is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does Rift Loopers cost?
- Rift Loopers is listed on Steam at 4.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Rift Loopers have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Rift Loopers 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 Loopers?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Rift Loopers are Shape Shifter: Formations, Meta Ghost: Breaking Show, Sharded World.
- Who developed Rift Loopers?
- Rift Loopers was developed by Monster Tooth Studios.
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