Rift Riff
Fair · Action · 2025
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $12.99. A BANGER at $4.73, lower than any Steam price we have tracked since May 2025 (lowest $5.59, Jun 2025).
- Length
- 3h 14.8h to 100%
- Value
- $4.33/hr
- Reviews
- 95% of 394 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at $4.73 or less.
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4. Calls like this were right 83% of the time in a backtest over 70 weeks.
Discounted in each of its last 6 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 9 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
About the game
Jump a rift, fight off monsters, plunder their world. A strategic mix of juicy tower loadouts, varied monster behaviors, and forgiving mechanics.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Integrated graphics with full Vulkan 1.0 support, 696 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
The value story
9 discounts in the 18 months on record, a median of 30 percent off across all of them, roughly 12 weeks apart. $4.73 is what it would take to make this a BANGER, and nothing in its history goes that low.
On value it sits in the top 3 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 79 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 98 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Thronefall ($12.99, scores 80) beats it on value, while it beats Taur ($16.74, scores 45).
More about Rift Riff
Steam's global achievement data puts about 2 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 3-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. None of the 318 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written May 2025 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 92 percent of the 130 reviews written there were positive, against 95 percent overall, and those are 36 percent of everything written about it.
3 hours to finish it, 15 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 4.9 times the campaign.
At 3 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.
The drop-off
95% start to 2% finishSteam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. Steam global achievements
Players
- Players online
- 4 when we last checked, on Oct 9, 00:54 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Very satisfying and forgiving before throwing some real curveballs. A good take on a tired formula.
1 more review
The art is simply lovely. The sound design is incredibly thoughtful. The controls are really intuitive.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Rift Riff scores 67/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2800900/rift-riffReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 29, price as of Oct 19. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.