Hello Riftbreakers!

The Steam Autumn Sale has begun, and the first part of the annual Steam Awards has arrived, too! For the next couple of weeks, you can cast votes on your favorite games in several categories. Since The Riftbreaker has been around for a couple of years, we are only eligible for one of those categories: Labor of Love. This award is meant for games still receiving developers' support years after their official release.

We would appreciate you considering casting your vote for The Riftbreaker in the Labor of Love category of the 2024 Steam Awards.

It is no secret that developing The Riftbreaker has been a life-changing experience for us. We have reached more players than ever before. Hundreds of thousands of you have set out for your Galatea 37 colonization mission, showing your trust and faith in our work. We have always planned to support The Riftbreaker for a long time, but it is your unwavering interest and support that made it possible. Ever since the launch of the game, we have managed to give you the following:

• Three massive world expansions, each with an entirely new biome to explore, dozens of new technologies, buildings, and weapons, unique fauna and flora, and a new portion of the Story Campaign in the form of paid DLCs.
• Over 80 game updates, improving on the game’s quality of life features, gameplay changes, and thousands of fixes, with a vast majority influenced by your invaluable feedback.
• Cutting-edge graphics features. We never stop working on our custom-built Schmetterling Engine and keep adding the latest technologies, such as AMD FSR, Intel XeSS, and our own implementations of raytracing and volumetric lighting effects.
• Dozens of performance optimizations. We know that satisfying performance is one of the pillars of a good gameplay experience. Each update we release features new optimizations so we can maximize your system’s resources.
• An entire suite of Editor Tools, which we have used ourselves to create the game. Now, they are in the hands of modders, who are already putting them to good use.

We are still going. We are still working on something special - a massive, completely free update we named ‘Riftbreaker 2.0.’ It is going to consist of two massive modules:

• Online Co-Op Multiplayer for up to 4 players. This mode will allow you to play both Survival Mode and Campaign Mode with your friends. It is currently in the Closed Beta phase - we keep releasing more and more keys every week, along with frequent content updates.
• Extended Story Campaign. We will allow you to go on additional planetary missions and set up new resource outposts. The extra missions will feature unique ‘encounter tiles’ with events you have never seen in the game. You will need to strengthen your economy to reach endgame goals that will serve as a ‘true’ ending to the game.

Apart from the two major features mentioned above, the Riftbreaker 2.0 update will also feature omega class creatures, an extended loot system, improvements to game balance, visual clarity, quality of life, and much more. We will discuss the features and improvements you can expect in the months leading up to the update’s release.

We hope you will consider The Riftbreaker for this year’s Steam Awards Labor of Love category. The game truly is a labor of love.

Thank You,
EXOR Studios