Games like Repel The Rifts
If Repel The Rifts is your kind of game, the closest matches are Into the Breach, Endless Defense and Ocean Keeper Co-op Drill Multiplayer — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its commander variety changes strategy, atmospheric and challenging. 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 Repel The Rifts: Repel the Rifts is a roguelite tower defense game where you lead a commander through an alien world, uncovering new terrain each wave, drafting powerful upgrades, and constructing defenses to hold back the chaos.
Players who liked Repel The Rifts also play
Steam players who put hours into Repel The Rifts 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.
Into the Breach
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Repel The Rifts.
Top pick for Repel The Rifts fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Repel The Rifts.
Control powerful mechs from the future to defeat an alien threat. Each attempt to save the world presents a new randomly generated challenge in this turn-based strategy game.
Endless Defense
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Repel The Rifts fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Repel The Rifts.
Endless Defense is a roguelite sci-fi tower defense game where every run becomes a new build. Place turrets, choose traits, draw upgrade cards, use special tiles, and evolve your defense to survive endless waves of enemies, elites, and bosses.
Ocean Keeper Co-op Drill Multiplayer
WHY THIS
Shares tower defense, wave based combat and an atmospheric mood with Repel The Rifts.
Third-strongest match for Repel The Rifts fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Repel The Rifts.
Dive into the Ocean Keeper – a cooperative roguelike where four survival miners defend their Mech Spider, fight with endless hordes of monsters, and dig for resources. Team up with your friends, upgrade between waves, and survive the deep caves, full of treasures… if you can.
Endless Tactics
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Repel The Rifts fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Repel The Rifts.
A turn-based tactics roguelite about defending a planetary mining expedition, upgrading your starship, and extracting before alien hordes overrun you.
Citadel Zero
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Repel The Rifts fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Repel The Rifts.
Defend the last citadel on a dying alien world. Summon a gacha collection of bio-engineered defense towers, forge a custom loadout, and conquer three modes, story-driven Chronicle, roguelite Contracts, and 1v1 PvP Ascension. Tower defense meets deck-building meta-progression.
Wall World 2
WHY THIS
Shares metaprogression, meta progression, roguelite and an atmospheric mood with Repel The Rifts.
Ranked #6 for Repel The Rifts fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Repel The Rifts.
The adventure in the mysterious world of the Wall continues! Pilot your robospider into its depths, uncover lost artifacts and technologies, upgrade your exosuit and spider, and battle the horrors lurking in the dark. Unravel the mysteries buried in the depths of the Wall!
Underground Security Inc
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Repel The Rifts fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Repel The Rifts.
Build the most profitable dungeon while repelling parties of adventuring "heroes". Manage minions, mine ores, build traps and collect ancient tomes in this roguelite dungeon defense game.
Cards of the Abyss
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Repel The Rifts fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Repel The Rifts.
Cards of the Abyss is a roguelike deckbuilder where movement is your only defense. Move on a grid, dodge enemy attacks, trigger countless chain-reactions and unleash overpowered card combos as you dive deeper into the Abyss.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Repel The Rifts at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~62% under Repel The Rifts on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Repel The Rifts.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~62% under Repel The Rifts on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Repel The Rifts.
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.
WHY THIS
Priced ~46% under Repel The Rifts on Steam right now. Shares Early Access with Repel The Rifts.
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.
Sid Meier's Civilization® V
WHY THIS
Priced ~42% under Repel The Rifts on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Repel The Rifts.
Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~52% under Repel The Rifts on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Repel The Rifts.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~62% under Repel The Rifts on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Repel The Rifts.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~62% under Repel The Rifts on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Repel The Rifts.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~92% under Repel The Rifts on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Repel The Rifts.
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?
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Repel The Rifts.
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 with Repel The Rifts.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Repel The Rifts.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
Star Fetchers
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Repel The Rifts.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Repel The Rifts.
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.
Coloring Pixels
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Repel The Rifts.
A relaxing coloring by numbers game. Enjoy completing a variety of images with differing themes, complexity, and sizes.
Eternal Senia
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Repel The Rifts.
Thoughts and expectations ARPG
There Is No Game: Jam Edition 2015
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Repel The Rifts.
A little game that’s not a game, winner of an old game jam that nobody’s ever heard of. So DON'T INSTALL IT!
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Frequently asked about Repel The Rifts
- Is Repel The Rifts verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — Repel The Rifts 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 Repel The Rifts cost?
- Repel The Rifts is listed on Steam at 12.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Repel The Rifts?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Repel The Rifts are Into the Breach, Endless Defense, Ocean Keeper Co-op Drill Multiplayer.
- Who developed Repel The Rifts?
- Repel The Rifts was developed by RefinedBearGames and published by Goblinz Publishing, WR game.
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