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The Riftbreaker: Prologue
The Riftbreaker: Prologue allows you to experience the events taking place before the story campaign of the main game. Explore an entirely new world. Gather resources. Build up a base. Defend yourself from thousands of alien creatures.
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Data as of 2026-05-20.
“Kinda fun gameplay if you're into the bullet-spray, hack-n-slash and base defense type. But I can see it might go into repetitive mode not long after. Still ok to grab on sale.”
— a player, Steam review · 1 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live count fetched 2026-07-11 11:20 UTC · history via SteamCharts.
Price tracking
US-region pricing (USD), sampled twice daily by our own tracker since 2026-07-11. Steam prices vary by region — always confirm your local price on Steam.
Latest official news
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Prologue Update 2025: Co-Op Mode
Hello everyone! We have just released a massive update for The Riftbreaker: Prologue. The new version has been created with all the changes and improvements from the full version of the game - and mor
Prologue Maintenance Update, September 2023
Hello everyone! We have just released an update for The Riftbreaker: Prologue. The latest version features dozens, if not hundreds, of bug fixes, gameplay improvements, as well as upgraded graphics. T
Maintenance Update, February 9th, 2022
Hello everyone! We would like to let you know that The Riftbreaker: Prologue has been updated with all the latest features and improvements from the full version of the game. The Prologue is now on pa
Design a Weapon - Vote Now!
Hello everyone! https://media.giphy.com/media/pEvQIpBILSB47y59nQ/giphy.gif Thank you for the huge number of replies to our weapon design contest! You showed a lot of creativity trying to fill in the b
Alien Weapon Technology
Hello Riftbreakers! In The Riftbreaker, your job is to explore and gain knowledge about Galatea 37, an entirely unknown planet in the far reaches of the Milky Way galaxy. While doing your research, yo
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-20.
| Genres | Action, Adventure, Indie, RPG, Simulation, Strategy |
| Player tags | Base-Building · Strategy · Hack and Slash · Survival · Exploration · Action · Tower Defense · Simulation · Sandbox · Crafting · Action RPG · Sci-fi (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Full controller support |
| Languages | English * , French, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Portuguese - Brazil * |
| Controller | Full support |
| Estimated owners | 200,000 – 500,000 (SteamSpy) |
| Official site | https://www.riftbreaker.com/ |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS *: Windows 8.1 Processor: Intel i5 gen 2 or AMD Bulldozer {4 cores) Memory: 8 GB RAM Graphics: Nvidia GTX 750 2GB or AMD R7 265 2GB DirectX: Version 11 Storage: 8 GB available space Sound Card: DirectX compatible sound card