The Riftbreaker

I went into this title hopeful but unsure of what to expect. I’ve come out of my time with the game stunned at just how damned fun it is. It is such a wild mix of incredibly deep base building with light tower defence, and excellent twin-stick shooting. The type of game idea is that you smack your head and go “of course, this is brilliant”. Having it be available day one on Game Pass everywhere (P...

A fantastic game for any base-building fans, The Riftbreaker’s tight combination of action-RPG and tower-defense elements produce an addictively fun experience well worth the inevitable hours you’ll lose to it.

Earth is going downhill so let's colonise an alien planet that's violently opposed to us being there. That sounds like a good idea, right?

I’ll be completely honest with you and admit that I am not the best at base building, tower defense, strategy styled games. I love me some XCOM and Desperados III, but have never been good at the strategy games that require real-time resource, building, and army management. So why am I the one playing and reviewing The Riftbreaker? Well, I fell in love with the game the moment I tried it at E3 201...

The Riftbreaker is a base-building, survival game with Action-RPG elements. You are an elite scientist/commando inside an advanced Mecha-Suit capable of dimensional rift travel. Hack & slash countless enemies. Build up your base, collect samples and research new inventions to survive.

I should mention beforehand that I'm not the greatest fan of real-time strategy games. This is odd because I have a considerable background in the genre, playing games like Age of Empires. However, I believe that my liking of games like that may have been because I played it with maxed resources for a sandbox experience. Why is this important for an Action RPG like The Riftbreaker? Because to me, ...

The Riftbreaker tries to combine multiple genres in a base-building tower-defense action RPG, but bad voice acting and frustrating design choices ruin the experience.