The Riftbreaker
Worth it · RPG · 2021
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $9.89.
- Cost per hourS
- $0.42/hr
- ReviewsA
- 90% of 25,190
- Critics
- 83 players 7 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 2% RPG
Why
Score at full price
Score today
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Time and effort
- Main story
- 23.4h
- To 100%
- 58.8h 2.5x the story
- Achievements
- 54
Price and sales
- Sales
- 47 on record
- Typical cut
- 40% off
- Steam low
- $8.99 June 2026
- Sale every
- 39d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 690 now
- Recent reviews
- 91% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 5% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 94% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
71% start to 2% rarestThis site could not identify an ending achievement for this game, so there is no finish rate. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
The lowest price on record is $8.99, set in June 2026. It has been discounted 47 times in the 5 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 40 percent, about 6 weeks apart.
Its score sits in the top 2 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 95 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 94 percent. Among the games that feel like it, The Riftbreaker: Prologue (free, scores 86) beats it on value, while it beats Pathless Woods ($19.99, scores 34).
More about The Riftbreaker
8 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written September 2025 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 70 percent of the 895 reviews written there were positive, against 90 percent overall, and those are 4 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 23.4 hours; clearing it takes 59, which is 2.5 times the campaign.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
I really enjoyed this game for the first 50 hours or so and that's the only reason I am giving it a positive rating, because today I am finally rage-quitting and uninstalling this game. As you keep progressing, the Omega attacks on your base gets too ridiculously frequent. I unlock new HQ level and trying to figure out which new researches to do and bam, Omega attack. Finally defeated it and repaired all my...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Its actually fun and good reminds me of Red Alert 3 but its fighting aliens and I like that a lot.
6/10 I didn't like the progression. You start out with all the weapons. All the weaons feel kinda similar.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
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.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, Nvidia GTX 750 2GB or AMD R7 265 2GB, 12 GB of storage. Windows only.
Cite this score
The Riftbreaker scores 83/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/780310/the-riftbreakerReviews 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 Nov 7, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.