- Prologue Update 2025: Co-Op Mode - 1 August 2025
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 more! The Prologue now supports Co-Op Multiplayer mode, coming to The Riftbreaker in the 2.0 update! You can now complete the Prologue mission in a group of up to four players. Each of you will control your own mech and have the full freedom to do whatever you like. Build, explore, gather resources, and fight the enemy hordes together. Our in-game server list and friend invite system make it easy to find someone to play with. Since the last update of the Prologue version, the game has received countless balancing and mechanical improvements. Our new loot system rewards exploration with unique item drops. Weapon firepower has been adjusted to give each gun a purpose and allow you to choose the…
- Prologue Maintenance Update, September 2023 - 20 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. The Prologue version of the game is now on par with the full version of the game when it comes to features and code base. Since the last update of the Prologue, we have made considerable progress in several areas of the game. The most noticeable change is the addition of Volumetric Lighting effects. Thanks to this technique, you can enjoy the improved fog and light scattering effects that greatly benefit the atmosphere of Galatea 37. The new version of the Prologue also includes a number of quality-of-life fixes. You will now be able to use mass repair, deconstruction, and upgrade tools to take care of your base more efficiently. An all-new clone tool will help you speed up the construction…
- Maintenance Update, February 9th, 2022 - 9 February 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 par with the full version of the game from a technical point of view. For the past couple of months, we have been focused on introducing changes and fixing issues that players have been reporting to us in order to make The Riftbreaker gameplay as smooth as possible. The vast majority of the most requested features and bug fixes have already made their way into the game. As our focus shifts to bringing World Expansion I and the online co-op to life, we feel that it is the right moment to update The Riftbreaker: Prologue with all the improvements we have achieved. We won’t be publishing a full changelog for this build, as the number of changes we introduced is truly massive. Instead of that, we…
- Design a Weapon - Vote Now! - 19 January 2022
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 blanks in Mr. Riggs’ arsenal. It was extremely difficult for us to pick and choose the best designs. However, some ideas seemed to garner a lot more interest and cropped up more than once, so we decided to shortlist these ones as our candidates. https://media.giphy.com/media/TPbBHYqzK7CfEg0jfe/giphy.gif Our chosen designs, in no particular order, are: DESIGN 1: Totally-Not-BFG - suggested by: Dragonkat, Genjator The first among the fan-favorites is a take on the classic ‘BFG’. It is a slow-firing, energy-based weapon of mass destruction. This weapon shoots out an energy ball that travels slowly along the ground, dealing damage as it passes through enemies. After some time, the projectile exp…
- Alien Weapon Technology - 14 January 2022
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, you will discover a lot of new substances and chemical processes that were previously unheard of. This, in turn, will allow you to push the boundaries of engineering and construct new tools, upgrades, and, of course, weapons. Today we will take a look at two such toys that might prove useful during your mission to Galatea 37. https://media.giphy.com/media/KB1HFdWKl1dG509L9T/giphy-downsized-large.gif?cid=790b76110fe17c628c2514f88c4a18d2a2377597aa8d2e61&rid=giphy-downsized-large.gif&ct=g The first such weapon is the Corrosive Gun. A wide variety of Galatean creatures utilize various kinds of acids as their main survival mechanism. This naturally, inspired Ashley to look into adopting this uniqu…
- Design a Riftbreaker Weapon! - 12 January 2022
Hello everyone! Long time no see! https://media.giphy.com/media/mHaQ7laJMKv6SItazc/giphy.gif With the holiday season finished we are officially back to work in (almost) full force. As we continue our work towards the next item on our roadmap - world expansion number one - we are going to present you with regular updates and ask for your feedback along the way! We can’t overstate how big of a role you - our community - have played over the course of The Riftbreaker’s development. Thousands of hours put into the Prologue and Closed Beta, pages upon pages of Discord messages, and all the reports that you have sent our way through all the other channels have shaped the way the game is like today. We would love to continue that and is there a better time to do so than right now?! Obviously not! The first Riftbreaker world expansion is going to bring a lot of new and exciting content for you,…
- Soundtrack is up on YouTube - 3 November 2021
Hello Riftbreakers! To have a little break from patch notes (which are still coming this week), we have something a little bit different for you today. We have uploaded the entire soundtrack from The Riftbreaker to YouTube for your listening pleasure. The soundtrack features 14 atmospheric compositions, written and performed by Marcin Pukaluk. They are quite a bit different from the music you hear in the game, as they all have been remade and mastered with standalone listening in mind (in other words, separately from the game). Marcin decided to reimagine these tracks because the music in the game required him to stay within some limits. For example, you do not want your battle music to have a one-minute-long intro. The fight might be over within that minute. However, the same intro might work really well and make the entire piece more complete. Without any game-specific restriction, Ma…
- 200 000 Riftbreakers and counting... - 21 October 2021
Hello Riftbreakers! The week from releasing The Riftbreaker has been a ground breaking and humbling experience for our small studio. More than two hundred thousand Riftbreakers decided to purchase the game and jump through the portal to Galatea 37. Thank you for supporting us! This number has by far surpassed our expectations and will allow us to continue supporting and expanding the game with new features and content. The feedback that we've been receiving from all of you has been incredible and will help us shape the game for the better during the weeks and months to come. We are currently working hard to address all of the issues that are being reported through all of our communication channels. Aside from the necessary fixes we are also working on a number of quality of life improvements including new ways of quickly repairing/upgrading large numbers of buildings, better weather eve…
- The Riftbreaker is Available Now! - 14 October 2021
Hello Riftbreakers! The wait is over. The Riftbreaker is now available! After almost 4 years of development, we are finally able to share the 1.0 version of The Riftbreaker with you. Thank you for the support and patience that you have given us during this process. Your feedback has changed the game for the better, and the countless hours you spent playtesting the Beta have allowed us to eliminate thousands of potential issues. If you would like to learn all about what The Riftbreaker features are, we prepared a launch video that walks through what you can see in the game. You can view it here: If you can’t watch the video right now, here’s a text description for you: CAMPAIGN MODE In the Story Campaign, you will join Ashley S. Nowak and her robotic companion, Mr. Riggs, on their mission to prepare Galatea 37 for colonization. During your stay in this alien world, you will visit multipl…
- Win an AMD Radeon™ RX 6800XT! - 11 October 2021
Hello Riftbreakers! As we promised, we have a couple of awesome things prepared for you for launch and here's the first one of them: during our stream on October 14th, starting at 3 PM CEST we will be giving away a Sapphire Pulse AMD Radeon 6800XT GPU! Thanks to our partnership with AMD we will be able to give a rig upgrade to one lucky fan. It will for sure allow them to run the Riftbreaker with all the bells and whistles! With 16GB of RAM and support for DirectX 12 Ultimate features, such as ray-tracing, variable rate shading and many more, this GPU will handle whatever you throw at it. Additionally, we will be giving away a couple of copies of the full version of The Riftbreaker! HOW TO ENTER: Make sure to join our stream on October 14th at 3PM CEST. At some point during the stream Void will reveal a secret URL with the registration form. All you have to do is enter your email addres…
- The Riftbreaker Beta Update Changelog October 11th 2021 - 11 October 2021
Hello Riftbreakers! It's release week! Only 3 more days until the Rift to Galatea 37 will break open and your wait will be over. We hope you are just excited as we are! Today we are publishing the last pre-release update to The Riftbreaker: Prologue and The Riftbreaker Beta. The Prologue version will continue receiving updates after the full game is released. The Beta version, however, will be deactivated in 3 days. We would like to thank you all for helping us improve The Riftbreaker. Your ideas and feedback changed many things for better. We hope the final product will meet your expectations and that you will stick around to see what the future brings. See you on the other side! EXOR Studios The Riftbreaker Beta Update Changelog October 11th 2021 AZERTY keyboard layout is now automatically detected and appropriate control scheme is applied to avoid conflicts in bindings. Game save cat…
- Beta Update - 29/09/2021 - 29 September 2021
Hello Riftbreakers! We have just pushed a patch to the experimental branch of The Riftbreaker Beta. As usual, it contains lots of small fixes and optimizations, as well as a couple of bigger ones. You can read all about them in the changelog below. The patch will first be available on the experimental branch. In order to access it, you have to right-click The Riftbreaker in your Steam Library, select 'Properties', 'Betas' and then choose 'experimental' from the drop-down menu. If everything goes according to our plan, we are going to push this package to the default branch a couple of days later. Here are the contents of the patch: The Riftbreaker Beta Changelog 2021/09/29 Gameplay changes: The HQ upgrade attack mechanics have been changed. The strength of the attack is now based on the current difficulty factor of your game. The stronger you are, the stronger the attack will be. Chance…
- Researching the Galatean ecosystem - 24 September 2021
Hello Riftbreakers! Last week we told you about one of the aspects of The Riftbreaker Campaign Mode - Planetary Exploration. During those events, you will make your first contact with the new biomes and take your first steps into familiarizing yourself with the conditions you will have to endure. Today, we will look at the more scientific part of Ashley’s work on Galatea - sampling and analyzing alien species and phenomena. While exploring new biomes, plenty of things will catch Ashley’s attention. Among them, you will find new alien species, extraordinary crystal formations, as well as other never-seen-before anomalies. Ashley’s scientific spirit will desire to scan and categorize all of them, and she won’t be able to do that based on a single sample. Mr. Riggs can help find more material for scanning by adjusting his sensors to mark potentially scannable objects. He can also program t…
- Exploring Galatea 37 - The Riftbreaker's Campaign - 15 September 2021
Hello Riftbreakers! https://media.giphy.com/media/qv1ikO2xysFcBsfZ1p/giphy-downsized-large.gif?cid=790b7611d21a506fc93729b203e91a601496c935ca3079d9&rid=giphy-downsized-large.gif&ct=g With the release of The Riftbreaker just around the corner (October 14th, for those of you who missed it), it is high time we finally let you know some more details about the Campaign Mode. Don't worry, though - we won't spoil anything so that you can explore and discover the game's secrets on your own. Today, we're going to tell you about one of the aspects of Campaign Mode - planetary exploration. https://media.giphy.com/media/xaZtMiGsbnfFFxaxXp/giphy-downsized-large.gif Over the course of the main campaign in the Riftbreaker, Ashley and Mr. Riggs are going to pay a visit to four completely distinct biomes. Each of those biomes is unique when it comes to fauna, flora, and environmental hazards. You start…
- We're launching on October 14th! - 8 September 2021
Hello Riftbreakers! We are beyond excited to tell you that The Riftbreaker will be released on the 14th of October 2021! The game will be available for a base price of $29.99 and localized into ten languages. We can't even begin to tell you how excited we are to reach this milestone. Only five weeks from now, you will be able to begin your exploration of Galatea 37 in the Campaign Mode, test your skills in the ever-changing Survival, or simply test the limits of the game and your creativity in the Sandbox Mode. In the Campaign Mode, you will join Ashley and Mr. Riggs on their mission to open a two-way portal from Galatea 37 back to Earth. This task will require you to set up a network of persistent bases all around the planet to gather all the necessary resources - with less than positive response from the local fauna. The Campaign Mode will test your combat skills, as well as base desi…
- The Riftbreaker Stability Update: 7th of September 2021 - 7 September 2021
Hello Riftbreakers! We have just pushed a small patch addressing a couple of issues some of you have encountered while playing the latest versions of The Riftbreaker Beta and The Riftbreaker: Prologue. Thank you for sending in all the crash reports - they are extremely helpful in identifying the issues with the game and finding ways to fix them. The Riftbreaker Stability Update: 7th of September 2021 Fixed issues with saving display and resolution options through the Launcher Fixed issues with screenshots attached to game saves Fixed multiple small issues that lead to large crashes. See - size doesn't matter! Thank you for your continued support! EXOR Studios
- Prologue Update - Save Feature now Avaliable - 3 September 2021
Hello Riftbreakers! We are happy to tell you that The Riftbreaker: Prologue is receiving a major update today, including hundreds of fixes, tweaks, balance changes, and most importantly - the save feature. Finally! What took you so long?! Yeah, we know… Let’s answer this question in two parts. Part One: The Save Feature When we first released The Riftbreaker: Prologue we thought that it would serve as a bite-sized teaser of the full game. It was meant for around 30 minutes of gameplay and as such wouldn’t need a saving feature at all. It was also at a time when the save system was quite unstable and going through a lot of changes, so even if we enabled it, we couldn’t guarantee compatibility of the save states between versions of the game. It turned out that a lot of you have been playing the Prologue for a lot more time than 30 minutes. In fact, we received multiple screenshots from us…
- The Riftbreaker Beta Update 2 - 24 August 2021
Hello everyone! Long time no see! These past few weeks have been very intense for us at EXOR Studios. We have been working very hard on preparing The Riftbreaker for release and we come with some good news for you. First of all, we managed to prepare a substantial update for The Riftbreaker Beta version. It’s a major update, with multiple fixes and reworks for the systems that needed them most. The Beta 2 update includes a completely redesigned crafting screen, reworked pipe and liquid resource system, lots of performance and memory optimizations as well as multiple other fixes that you’ve been asking for. The full changelog for The Riftbreaker Beta 2 Update is included at the end of this article. As usual, we are going to celebrate the release of the patch with a Beta giveaway stream. Join us today, August 24th, at 3 PM CEST on www.twitch.tv/exorstudios. Simply be there and be active i…
- Bioanomalies - 30 July 2021
Hello everyone! We know how eager you are to play The Riftbreaker. We see your comments everywhere, calling for the game to release already. That’s super awesome because it means that you care about the game. It motivates us to work even harder and to deliver the best product possible. It’s going to take some time, but we can assure you - we’re almost done. In the meantime, we’d like to tell you about some new features that we haven’t shown you before - not to tease you, but to prove that we’re still firing on all cylinders! :) As you know, in The Riftbreaker you have an entire planet to explore, You will be the first human to discover, research, and catalog the unknown fauna and flora inhabiting this wild world. If you are an explorer at heart, we have no doubts that you will spend some time learning all the Galatean secrets. On the other hand, if wandering about and enjoying the views…
- EXOR Studios joins the Discord Alliance - 22 July 2021
Hello! We are thrilled to announce that EXOR Studios Discord server has been accepted into the United Servers of Discord Alliance! The Alliance is a joint effort from several communities, working together to maximize the enjoyment of our members. It incentivizes active participation within the community and encourages the discovery of new, high-quality servers. This is all made possible through the use of several bots that help with cross-server communication. Don’t worry though - they are confined to their designated channels and won’t bother you with any pings or DMs unless you specifically ask them to. Let’s have an overview of what this brings to the EXOR Studios server. First of all, there is the #alliance-chat channel. All messages you send in this channel will be copied and embedded in partnered Discords. This way we can all communicate with each other, without server-hopping and…
