Games like The Riftbreaker
If The Riftbreaker is your kind of game, the closest matches are The Riftbreaker: Prologue, V Rising and Factorio — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its tactical positioning matters, writing quality is exceptional 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 →The Riftbreaker is a sci-fi action-strategy game developed by EXOR Studios that released in 2021 at $11.99. It combines hack-and-slash combat with base-building, resource management, and tower defense mechanics, supporting up to four players in online co-op alongside its solo mode. Players describe the experience as both challenging and immersive, with tactical positioning cited as a key factor in survival. The game features action-RPG elements, procedural generation, and crafting systems across its long campaign. Reviewers highlight the developers' active engagement with the community as a notable aspect of the title. Currently playable on Steam Deck, it holds a 91% positive rating from over 9,000 Steam reviews.
About The Riftbreaker: The Riftbreaker is a solo or Co-op base-building, survival game with Action-RPG elements for up to 4 players. Hack & slash countless hordes of enemies. Build up your base, craft powerful weapons and research new inventions to survive.
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The Riftbreaker: Prologue
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with The Riftbreaker.
Top pick for The Riftbreaker fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with The Riftbreaker.
The Riftbreaker: Prologue allows you to experience the events taking place before the story campaign of the main game. Explore an entirely new world. Gather resources. Build up a base. Defend yourself from thousands of alien creatures.
V Rising
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with The Riftbreaker.
Second-strongest match for The Riftbreaker fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with The Riftbreaker.
Awaken as a Vampire. Hunt for blood in nearby settlements to regain your strength and evade the scorching sun to survive. Raise your castle and thrive in an ever-changing, open world full of mystery. Gain allies online and conquer the land of the living.
Factorio
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for The Riftbreaker fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Riftbreaker.
Factorio is a game about building and creating automated factories to produce items of increasing complexity, within an infinite 2D world. Use your imagination to design your factory, combine simple elements into ingenious structures, and finally protect it from the creatures who don't really like you.
Grim Dawn
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with The Riftbreaker.
Ranked #4 for The Riftbreaker fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Riftbreaker.
Enter an apocalyptic fantasy world where humanity is on the brink of extinction, iron is valued above gold and trust is hard earned. This ARPG features complex character development, hundreds of unique items, crafting and quests with choice & consequence.
Machine Mind
WHY THIS
Shares tower defense and base building with The Riftbreaker.
Ranked #5 for The Riftbreaker fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with The Riftbreaker.
Machine Mind is an action game in a post-apocalyptic setting with elements of survival and RTS. You will fight, craft modules, build your transport, develop and protect your base. You can control other vehicles to automate operations. Discover all the secrets of the destroyed world!
Monster Outbreak
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with The Riftbreaker.
Ranked #6 for The Riftbreaker fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with The Riftbreaker.
The King's dimensional orb has malfunctioned, bringing hordes of monsters into the Kingdom. Defend your safeground against the monsters by gathering resources, building defenses, upgrading your arsenal, and surviving long enough to find the source of monsters and destroy it.
Dig or Die
WHY THIS
Shares tower defense, base building and an immersive mood with The Riftbreaker.
Ranked #7 for The Riftbreaker fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with The Riftbreaker.
Crash land on a hostile planet where you'll have to build the strongest defenses if you wish to live to escape from it. But be warned... this planet is merciless. Build strong, and smart; else physics may flood or destroy your only hopes of survival.
Beyond the Map
WHY THIS
Shares base building, procedural generation and an immersive mood with The Riftbreaker.
Ranked #8 for The Riftbreaker fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with The Riftbreaker.
Isometric survival ARPG set in a procedurally generated fantasy world. Build your base, gear up, and venture out, chasing stronger enemies and better loot.
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Satisfactory
WHY THIS
Shares base building and an immersive mood with The Riftbreaker.
Reviewers of The Riftbreaker cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Riftbreaker.
Satisfactory is a first-person open-world factory building game with a dash of exploration and combat. Play alone or with friends, explore an alien planet, create multi-story factories, and enter conveyor belt heaven!
Factorio
WHY THIS
Reviewers of The Riftbreaker cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Riftbreaker.
Factorio is a game about building and creating automated factories to produce items of increasing complexity, within an infinite 2D world. Use your imagination to design your factory, combine simple elements into ingenious structures, and finally protect it from the creatures who don't really like you.
They Are Billions
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and a challenging mood with The Riftbreaker.
Reviewers of The Riftbreaker cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with The Riftbreaker.
They Are Billions is a Steampunk strategy game set on a post-apocalyptic planet. Build and defend colonies to survive against the billions of the infected that seek to annihilate the few remaining living humans. Can humanity survive after the zombie apocalypse?
Dyson Sphere Program
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with The Riftbreaker.
Reviewers of The Riftbreaker cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Riftbreaker.
Build the most efficient intergalactic factory in space simulation strategy game Dyson Sphere Program! Harness the power of stars, collect resources, plan and design production lines and develop your interstellar factory from a small space workshop to a galaxy-wide industrial empire.
SC2VN - The eSports Visual Novel
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with The Riftbreaker.
Reviewers of The Riftbreaker cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Riftbreaker.
SC2VN is a visual novel about the South Korean StarCraft 2 scene. You play as Mach, a foreign semi-pro trying to make it in eSports who soon learns that success in StarCraft takes more than in-game strategy.
Path of Exile 2
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation with The Riftbreaker.
Reviewers of The Riftbreaker cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with The Riftbreaker.
Path of Exile 2 is a next generation Action RPG from Grinding Gear Games, featuring co-op for up to six players. Set years after the original Path of Exile, you will return to the dark world of Wraeclast and seek to end the corruption that is spreading.
Age of Darkness: Final Stand
WHY THIS
Shares tower defense, base building and a challenging mood with The Riftbreaker.
Reviewers of The Riftbreaker cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with The Riftbreaker.
Age of Darkness: Final Stand is a dark fantasy survival RTS where you must illuminate, build and defend humanity’s last bastion against hordes of Nightmares. Set in the remnants of a kingdom consumed by a deadly fog, you decide. Will you hide in the light? Or take back your world.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below The Riftbreaker at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
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Priced ~58% under The Riftbreaker on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Riftbreaker.
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 The Riftbreaker on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with The Riftbreaker.
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 ~42% under The Riftbreaker on Steam right now. Shares Action with The Riftbreaker.
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 ~63% under The Riftbreaker on Steam right now. Shares Action with The Riftbreaker.
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
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Priced ~48% under The Riftbreaker on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Riftbreaker.
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 The Riftbreaker on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Riftbreaker.
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 ~58% under The Riftbreaker on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Riftbreaker.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~92% under The Riftbreaker on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with The Riftbreaker.
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?
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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 The Riftbreaker.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
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 The Riftbreaker.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
Paper Lily - Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Riftbreaker.
Paper Lily is an RPG horror game in which you can solve puzzles in different ways. Explore a hidden world, meet strange characters, and guide Lacie as she attempts to find answers about her unusual condition.
The Lab
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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!
Project Kat - Paper Lily Prologue
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Riftbreaker.
Project Kat is a short, unconventional RPG horror game in which there is always another way. Solve puzzles, make friends (or not), and guide Kat as she attempts to uncover the mystery behind a strange golden letter.
DORONKO WANKO
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Simulation with The Riftbreaker.
『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.
Saihate Station
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Riftbreaker.
An exploration/horror/adventure game about the codependent, love-hate relationship between two men.
SuchArt: Creative Space
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with The Riftbreaker.
Paint on any surfaces with numerous tools in Creative Space — a free sandbox version of SuchArt: Genius Artist Simulator. Create masterpieces, complete commissions, and decorate your studio in the most advanced artist sim!
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Other recommendable Steam games by EXOR Studios, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
X-Morph: Defense
WHY THIS
Shares resource management and a challenging mood with The Riftbreaker.
Another title from EXOR Studios, the studio behind The Riftbreaker. Shares Action and Strategy with The Riftbreaker.
Unique fusion of a top-down shooter and tower defense strategy. You are the invader! Use destructive weapons or lead your enemies into a maze of towers. Strategize in the build mode by carefully selecting various types of alien towers or throw yourself right into the heat of the battle.
Zombie Driver HD
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with The Riftbreaker.
Another title from EXOR Studios, the studio behind The Riftbreaker. Shares Action and Indie with The Riftbreaker.
Insane mix of cars, speed, explosions, blood and zombies! Fight through an epic narrative campaign or test yourself in the Slaughter and Blood Race modes.
The Riftbreaker: Prologue
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with The Riftbreaker.
Another title from EXOR Studios, the studio behind The Riftbreaker. Shares Action and Strategy with The Riftbreaker.
The Riftbreaker: Prologue allows you to experience the events taking place before the story campaign of the main game. Explore an entirely new world. Gather resources. Build up a base. Defend yourself from thousands of alien creatures.
Frequently asked about The Riftbreaker
- Does The Riftbreaker run on Steam Deck?
- The Riftbreaker 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 The Riftbreaker cost?
- The Riftbreaker is listed on Steam at 11.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does The Riftbreaker have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — The Riftbreaker supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online Co-op, LAN Co-op).
- What games are most similar to The Riftbreaker?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Riftbreaker are The Riftbreaker: Prologue, V Rising, Factorio.
- Who developed The Riftbreaker?
- The Riftbreaker was developed by EXOR Studios and published by EXOR Studios, Surefire.Games.
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