Games like Rift Riff
If Rift Riff is your kind of game, the closest matches are Defe, Axom: Conquest and Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, challenging and chill. 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 Riff: Jump a rift, fight off monsters, plunder their world. A strategic mix of juicy tower loadouts, varied monster behaviors, and forgiving mechanics.
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Defe
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Top pick for Rift Riff fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Rift Riff.
Tower Defense Roguelike with Action RPG elements, combining base building, real-time strategy, resource management, and intense top-down combat. Build by day. Defend by night. Explore and survive, if you can.
Axom: Conquest
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Second-strongest match for Rift Riff fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Rift Riff.
Build and defend your fortress while expanding out in this hold-out tower defense roguelite. Battle across a procedural alien homeworld, fight back corrupted terrain, discover hundreds of structures and upgrades as physics-driven swarms threaten to wipe out humanity.
Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition
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Third-strongest match for Rift Riff fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Rift Riff.
42 Civilizations, 229 Campaign Missions, Singleplayer, Co-Op, Multiplayer, In-Game Editor, Mods, Cross-play...It is good to be the king.
Endzone Girls
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Ranked #4 for Rift Riff fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Rift Riff.
《Endzone Girls》is a Tower Defense Game. You will collect resources and build fortifications before the zombies arrive to kill the zombies that invade your home. In the game, you will unlock different defensive buildings, create a unique style, defend your home in a world full of zombies.
rymdkapsel
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Shares a chill mood with Rift Riff.
Ranked #5 for Rift Riff fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Rift Riff.
Build a space station. Command the tiny crew. Explore the galaxy. A meditative space strategy game.
ByteCrawler
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Ranked #6 for Rift Riff fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Rift Riff.
Pick a hero, build your swarm, and hold off enemy waves. Place units, watch your energy, and level up to survive in this lane-defense strategy game!
Thronefall
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Shares tower defense, resource management and a challenging mood with Rift Riff.
Ranked #7 for Rift Riff fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Rift Riff.
A minimalist game about building and defending your little kingdom.
Runeroots TD
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Shares tower defense, resource management, strategy and a cozy mood with Rift Riff.
Ranked #8 for Rift Riff fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Rift Riff.
Synergize rune traits to give your towers powerful new abilities in this roguelite tower defense! Collect perks, relics, and items you can equip to your towers for unique builds each run!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Rift Riff at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
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Priced ~62% under Rift Riff on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Rift Riff.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Vampire Survivors
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Priced ~62% under Rift Riff on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Rift Riff.
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!
R.E.P.O.
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Priced ~46% under Rift Riff on Steam right now. Shares Action with Rift Riff.
An online co-op horror game with up to 6 players. Locate valuable, fully physics-based objects and handle them with care as you retrieve and extract to satisfy your creator's desires.
Titanfall® 2
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Priced ~65% under Rift Riff on Steam right now. Shares Action with Rift Riff.
Respawn Entertainment gives you the most advanced titan technology in its new, single player campaign & multiplayer experience. Combine & conquer with new titans & pilots, deadlier weapons, & customization and progression systems that help you and your titan flow as one unstoppable killing force.
Sid Meier's Civilization® V
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Priced ~42% under Rift Riff on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Rift Riff.
Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!
Slay the Spire
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Priced ~52% under Rift Riff on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Rift Riff.
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
Cookie Clicker
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Priced ~62% under Rift Riff on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Rift Riff.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
WEBFISHING
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Priced ~62% under Rift Riff on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Rift Riff.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Rift Riff.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
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 Riff.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
Iron Snout
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Rift Riff.
Iron Snout is a fast, colorful and brutal fighting game in which you will be helping a piglet fight for its life against hordes of wolves.
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 Riff.
A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.
Coloring Pixels
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Rift Riff.
A relaxing coloring by numbers game. Enjoy completing a variety of images with differing themes, complexity, and sizes.
DORONKO WANKO
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Rift Riff.
『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.
I MAED A GAM3 W1TH Z0MB1ES 1N IT!!!1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Rift Riff.
A top down twin stick zombie slaying shooter that you are sure to play again and again!
Epic Battle Fantasy 3
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Rift Riff.
Epic Battle Fantasy 3 is a silly turn-based JRPG, full of useless NPCs, rabid cats, childish humor, unreasonably large weapons, anime boobs, and other nonsense. And it's totally free!
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Frequently asked about Rift Riff
- Is Rift Riff verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — Rift Riff is Steam Deck Verified, meaning Valve has confirmed it runs well on the Deck with full controller, text legibility, and default configuration support.
- How much does Rift Riff cost?
- Rift Riff is listed on Steam at 12.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Rift Riff?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Rift Riff are Defe, Axom: Conquest, Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition.
- Who developed Rift Riff?
- Rift Riff was developed by Adriaan de Jongh, Sim Kaart, Matthijs Koster and published by Adriaan de Jongh.
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