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Repel The Rifts
Repel the Rifts is a roguelite tower defense game where you lead a commander through an alien world, uncovering new terrain each wave, drafting powerful upgrades, and constructing defenses to hold back the chaos.
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-25.
“Fun towerdefense, a bit easy except for the teleporter wave that will oneshot you”
— a player, Steam review · 14 hrs played“It's fun! I like it. A proper roguelike tower defense game.”
— a player, Steam review · 6 hrs played“This is a great little game, I've really enjoyed it. Only complain is that the highest difficulty level isn't hard enough for people who have played a lot of games in the genre so the game is sorely lacking an Ascension style difficulty ladder to keep the challenge going. Once…”
— a player, Steam review · 20 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live data self-collected from the Steam API · history through 2026-08 via SteamCharts.
Achievement stats
Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-09-26.
Price tracking
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Latest official news
Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.
v0.18.14 Patchnotes - Hotfix Level Limit
I forgot to increase the level cap after adding new tech nodes to the tree! The new (soft) level cap is 76. Sorry Commanders! RefinedBear Full Changelist Bugs Fixed (increased) level cap to 76 to make
v0.18.13 Patchnotes - Mixed Bag of Changes!
Hello Commanders! This update is a mixed bag of different things. There isn't one singular big thing to talk about but hopefully is a fun update nonetheless. Skins for Towers There is a new customizat
v0.17.9 Patchnotes - Laboratory, Mortar, Custom Mode and More
Hello Commanders! In this new update, I've added two new towers, another game mode (Custom mode) and some other changes. I hope you enjoy the new changes! Laboratory and Mortar Towers The first tower
v0.16.9 Patchnotes - Factory Tower and Daily Challenge Mode
Hello Commanders! In this new update, I've added a new tower, a new game mode and some other miscellaneous fixes and changes. The promised endless changes in the last patch notes are still coming, I j
0.15.4 Patchnotes - Beam Tower and Sneak Peak of what's next!
Hello Commanders! New Tower! In this update, I've included the Beam Tower , a new tower that is designed to take down slow, tanky enemies. It isn't associate to any Commander as a starting tower, and
Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-09-25.
| Genres | Indie, Strategy, Early Access |
| Player tags | Tower Defense · Roguelike · Mechs · Sci-fi · Tactical · Turn-Based · Roguelite · Space · Turn-Based Tactics · Strategy · Pixel Graphics · Resource Management (Steam store community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Steam Achievements · Full controller support · Steam Cloud · Stats · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English, Simplified Chinese, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean |
| Controller | Full support |
| Achievements | 35 |
| Official site | https://goblinzstudio.com/game/repel-the-rifts/ |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: Processor: 2 GHz Memory: 4 GB RAM Storage: 200 MB available space