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Hello Riftbreakers! Today marks the fifth anniversary of The Riftbreaker’s version 1.0. Almost four years of development resulted in our most ambitious title to date and, by far, the single biggest success our studio has achieved. Back then, we wouldn’t even dream of having our g
Hello Riftbreakers! If you take a look at the comments sections for our articles as of late, you will notice that the same handful of questions keep turning up: What’s next for The Riftbreaker? Is there more content coming? When? Although we have been answering all those question
Hello Riftbreakers! Today, we want to shine a light on a mod we first mentioned back in 2024: Killtech’s Rift Exploration Defense Industry , or REDI. Back then, the mod was just getting started, but it already showed a lot of promise. Two years later, it has gone far beyond what
Hello Riftbreakers! The title of today’s article is not a mistake - that’s a typical filename for an EXOR Studios trailer in the final stages of its production. Looking at our gameplay trailers, you’d never expect that their production takes a long time - it’s just a couple of ga
Hello Riftbreakers! Our game has changed a lot since it came out in 2021. Over the past five years, we've added a lot of new content and features for you to enjoy. The Metallic Valley, Crystal Caverns, Fungal Swamp, and Cryo Field biomes bring more variety to the original four bi
Hello Riftbreakers! In the past few weeks, we’ve shared some of our design choices and how your feedback has shaped The Riftbreaker. You’ve seen that being a designer means making creative decisions while working within the limits of the game’s world and genre, and giving you wha
Hello Riftbreakers! As game developers, we have the incredible pleasure of building games that we would want to play and sharing them with millions of people around the world to enjoy. As awesome as that is, we are often quite anxious about every new release. After all, the relea
Hello Riftbreakers! It is often said that good game design is largely invisible. It subtly affects your decisions and gives you a sense of direction, without many obvious clues. We do not mean to say that painting ledges yellow is necessarily wrong. On the contrary, overthinking
Hello Riftbreakers! We often mention optimization in our articles, release notes, and other interactions with you. It is one of the pillars of programming. It is usually not a problem to program the computer to do something for you. It is much more of an issue to make the compute
Hello Riftbreakers! There is an old saying in the game industry: “Getting the last 10% done requires 90% of the total effort.” This “proverb*” essentially says that the final layer of polish for any given game is a difficult, demanding process. The game needs to hold its own with
Hello Riftbreakers! We have always said that keeping in touch with you, our players, is one of the most important things we can do as game developers. Publishing our thoughts consistently, weekly, opens avenues for constructive discussion and allows us to plan for new features an
Hello Riftbreakers! Long time no see! We apologize for the radio silence these past couple of weeks, but our plans have been thwarted by various issues beyond our control. We're happy to let you know that things are back on track, and our regular content schedule should resume wi
Hello Riftbreakers! We have just released an emergency hotfix for severe performance and game cursor update issues that were caused by the recent Windows Update KB5086672 (Windows 25h2). The Riftbreaker Experimental Update, April 2nd, 2026. Changelog: Changes: fixed severe perfor
UPDATE: - These changes are now live on the default branch of the game. Hello Riftbreakers! We hope you've been having a lot of fun with the World Expansion IV Update! We're happy with the current state of the game, but it doesn't mean our work stops there - we still have a lot o
A gorgeous blend of base building and ARPG, The Riftbreaker manages to bring its numerous component parts together into a slick and rewarding co-op game with plenty of polish. It just got a whole lot bigger with the launch of the clinical-sounding 'World Expansion IV' update, whi
Hello Riftbreakers! We have just published a patch that will help you with the following problems: The Riftbreaker Hotfix, March 6th, 2026, EXE: 1179 DATA: 837 changelog: Fixed crashing issues with the Cryo Fields Survival mission on Easy difficulty. Meteors, stalactites and ice
If you want a TL;DR of this article, this commentary trailer will give you all the essentials in a nutshell. Hello Riftbreakers! We are very pleased to announce that the new World Expansion IV Update is now live! We have just released a huge, free content update for The Riftbreak
Hello Riftbreakers! We have some good news for you today! The Riftbreaker World Expansion IV will be released on Thursday, March 5th, 2026! This free update brings you an entirely new way to play the game in the form of the Open Campaign mode, a new biome to explore, and new buil
Hello Riftbreakers! In this week’s article, we are going to take a look at the (literal) meat and (figurative) potatoes of the Cryo Fields biome - the creatures that inhabit the area. The local fauna has adapted to the cold in various ways, often increasing its overall resistance
Hello Riftbreakers! Open video Welcome to the Cryo Fields! We have bloodthirsty proto-Kermons, lakes of supercoolant that will destroy any untreated materials, and trouble with power generation. You're gonna love it here! World Expansion IV is getting closer, and with it comes a