Rift Riff
Jump a rift, fight off monsters, plunder their world. A strategic mix of juicy tower loadouts, varied monster behaviors, and forgiving mechanics.
Jump a rift, fight off monsters, plunder their world. A strategic mix of juicy tower loadouts, varied monster behaviors, and forgiving mechanics.
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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.

Rift Riff costs $12.99 right now.
Based on Wish9's price records and IsThereAnyDeal history, the lowest price is $5.59.
The lowest recorded price is $5.59. The current price is about 2.3x that. It has gone on sale 5 times in the past year, about every 72 days on average. When it goes on sale, the discount is usually around 35%, and the biggest was 40%. This is for reference, based on past price records, and doesn't guarantee future prices.
Recommended: Graphics card Dedicated graphics with full Vulkan 1.2 support, Processor x86_64 CPU with SSE4.2 instructions, with 4 physical cores or more, Memory 8 GB RAM. Minimum: Graphics card Integrated graphics with full Vulkan 1.0 support, Processor x86_32 CPU with SSE2 instructions, or any x86_64 CPU, Memory 4 GB RAM. Save your PC specs on Wish9 to compare them with this game instantly.