Jump a rift, fight off monsters, and plunder their world. Rift Riff is a tower defense game noteworthy in two ways: it's particularly strategic and remarkably forgiving.
At the heart of the strategic layer of Rift Riff is a mix of choosing what towers you bring into each rift and being clever about the various monster behaviors. Monsters attack in waves, either going straight for your Extractor (your main tower) or attacking every tower in proximity. To defend yourself, you choose a handful of towers at the start of a scenario and build them on predetermined spots on the map. You obtain juice (your build resource) during monster waves and have the ability to build and upgrade towers before and during each wave. Surviving the onslaught of monsters gives you prisms, which in turn unlocks more rifts, towers, companions, and tower upgrades.
Don’t have enough juice to build your tower? Schedule it. Built the wrong tower? Get a full refund. Lost a tower? It’ll respawn for free after the wave. Lost your Extractor? Only redo the last wave. Having a hard time? Pick flowers for a bit of extra juice.
The full game currently features ± 15–20 hours of gameplay:
20 worlds with 2 or more scenarios each.
17 tower types with 7 overpowered upgrades.
25 monster types with varying behaviors.
6 companions who'll assist you and your towers.
45 challenges for die hards.
All the good Steam stuff: achievements, stats, controller support, cloud saves, etc.
Have a suggestion or want to report a bug? Talk to the developers on the Steam Forums or on Discord.
Rift Riff is made by game designer Adriaan de Jongh (best known for the indie hit Hidden Folks), graphic designer Sim Kaart, enemy wave designer Professional Panda, music composer and sound designer Matthijs Koster, and programmer Franz LaZerte. Rift Riff is made using the open source game engine Godot.
Stylized tower defense that allows iteration between failed waves.
finished the game in one sitting and then was enjoying it so much I 100%'ed it :3 not without its flaws, but was definitely worth my time!
A lo-fi forgiving tower defense with polished controls, UI, and visuals. But it's plagued by the genre’s usual flaws: little player expression and a quick slide into trial-and-error based on level knowledge and fixed strategies.
This is a very fun tower defense. I finished all of the challenges and achievements. Some challenges were quite difficult indeed. But what this game really needs a longer mode: survive 100 days type of thing. Come on dev, you can do it!
beautiful short term entertainment
Super chill and very charming tower defense game to play. I find myself saying "one more level" while I debate going to bed.
yes
Fun tower defense with very interesting challenges
A great simply styled, and very forgiving, tower defense game for cheap. Don't know what else to say. It was great as a demo, and now released, it's great still.
Rift Riff costs $12.99.
Minimum: Minimum: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS: Windows 10 Processor: x86_32 CPU with SSE2 instructions, or any x86_64 CPU Memory: 4 GB RAM Graphics: Integrated graphics with full Vulkan 1.0 support Storage: 700 MB available space Recommended: Recommended: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS: Windows 10 or higher Processor: x86_64 CPU with SSE4.2 instructions, with 4 physical cores or more Memory: 8 GB RAM Graphics: Dedicated graphics with full Vulkan 1.2 support Storage: 700 MB available space
Rift Riff is available on Windows PC, macOS, Linux.
Rift Riff has 100% positive reviews from 13 players.
Rift Riff was released on May 9, 2025.
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