Games like Rifter
If Rifter is your kind of game, the closest matches are Don't Touch Grass, Cyber Hook and Wong — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its challenging, contemplative and epic. 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 Rifter: Breathtakingly fast and tough-as-nails, Rifter is an acrobatic platformer drenched in neon and infused with a pumping 80’s synthwave soundtrack. Run, swing, smash and dash at exhilarating speeds on a quest to discover the secrets of a shattered world.
Players who liked Rifter also play
Steam players who put hours into Rifter 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.
Don't Touch Grass
WHY THIS
Top pick for Rifter fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Rifter.
Equipped with a high-tech exoskeleton, attempt to save gaming in this first-person parkour platformer. Jump, wall-run and slide to build momentum. The faster you go, the more special abilities you can use. Set faster times and remember, Don't Touch Grass.
ActionSteam ↗Cyber Hook
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Rifter.
Second-strongest match for Rifter fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Rifter.
Speed through a gorgeous retrowave world using parkour skills and a grappling hook to scale and ride walls in this fast-paced, 3D platformer. Blast enemies, manipulate time and abuse physics to avoid falling to your death.
Wong
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Rifter fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Rifter.
Wong is a 2D platformer designed for speedrunning, where you will clear levels, learn their shortcuts, and compete for the best score in a fluid, precise, and perfection-focused gameplay experience.
DualVerse86
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Rifter fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Rifter.
DualVerse86 is a fast-paced 2D precision platformer where mastering switching between two worlds is the only way to survive deadly traps and race against the clock.
Skybolt Zack
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Rifter.
Ranked #5 for Rifter fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Rifter.
Skybolt Zack is a brand new fast-paced arcade gaming experience! With his Rocket Punches Zack leaps from enemy to enemy, destroying anything standing in his way! Match the colour of the enemies with the buttons on the gamepad to rid the world of Dr Kaz’s robot army!
Dustforce DX
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Rifter.
Ranked #6 for Rifter fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Rifter.
Take control of a nimble janitor to rid the world of dust and debris.
Celaria
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with Rifter.
Ranked #7 for Rifter fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Rifter.
Celaria is a first-person racing parkour platformer in which the player races against the time on various tracks. Find the fastest path to the goal and take advantage of the environment in order to improve your runs as much as possible.
RKGK / Rakugaki
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Rifter.
Ranked #8 for Rifter fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Rifter.
Turn heads. Drop jaws. Be bright. In this single-player 3D platformer, you’re the only one who can take down Mr. Buff and his lackies to restore color and life to the citizens of Cap City. Accompany Valah and the RKGK crew on their journey to take down the oppressive B Corp.
Reviewers mention these as similar to Rifter
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Super Meat Boy
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Rifter.
Reviewers of Rifter cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with Rifter.
The infamous, tough-as-nails platformer comes to Steam with a playable Head Crab character (Steam-exclusive)!
SpeedRunners
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with Rifter.
Reviewers of Rifter cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Rifter.
Cut-throat multiplayer running game that pits 4 players against each other, locally and/or online. Run, jump, swing around, and use devious weapons and pick-ups to knock opponents off-screen! One of the most competitive games you'll ever play.
Hollow Knight
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Rifter.
Reviewers of Rifter cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Rifter.
Forge your own path in Hollow Knight! An epic action adventure through a vast ruined kingdom of insects and heroes. Explore twisting caverns, battle tainted creatures and befriend bizarre bugs, all in a classic, hand-drawn 2D style.
Celeste
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Rifter.
Reviewers of Rifter cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Rifter.
Help Madeline survive her inner demons on her journey to the top of Celeste Mountain, in this super-tight platformer from the creators of TowerFall. Brave hundreds of hand-crafted challenges, uncover devious secrets, and piece together the mystery of the mountain.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Rifter at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under Rifter on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Rifter.
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 ~58% under Rifter on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Rifter.
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 ~42% under Rifter on Steam right now. Shares Action with Rifter.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~63% under Rifter on Steam right now. Shares Action with Rifter.
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.
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~48% under Rifter on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Rifter.
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 ~58% under Rifter on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Rifter.
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 ~58% under Rifter on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Rifter.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~92% under Rifter on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Rifter.
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.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Rifter.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Rifter.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Rifter.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Rifter.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Rifter.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
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 Rifter.
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.
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Frequently asked about Rifter
- How much does Rifter cost?
- Rifter is listed on Steam at 11.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Rifter?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Rifter are Don't Touch Grass, Cyber Hook, Wong.
- Who developed Rifter?
- Rifter was developed by MaxBytes.
imho.run ranks Steam game alternatives using a mix of collaborative filtering (ALS / iALS / EASE / LightGCN), content scoring over genres, categories, Steam tags, developers, and publishers, plus AI-extracted vibes mined from review text. The page above is generated in seed mode anchored on Rifter.
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