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The Riftbreaker: Prologue

EXOR Studios · 2020-08-05

Steam

ActionAdventureIndieRPGSimulationStrategy

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.

The Riftbreaker: Prologue is a free-to-play Action, Adventure, Indie, and RPG title released in 2020, with an estimated 200,000 to 500,000 owners and an Overwhelmingly Positive review sentiment (95% of 4127 reviews).

0
playing now
95%
positive of 4.1k reviews
Overwhelmingly Positive
steam's rating (official)
200,000–500,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
silver
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
Free
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 13:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 24 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~3/week).
  • · Review velocity down 20% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (1,929 reviews).
  • · Top 8% of 27,649 Action games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-27

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
1.8k1.8k20202026Week of 2020-08-01: 1,842 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 87 negativeWeek of 2020-09-01: 312 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2020-10-01: 170 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2020-11-01: 220 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2020-12-01: 136 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 160 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 118 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2021-03-01: 131 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2021-04-01: 127 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2021-05-01: 105 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-06-01: 123 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2021-07-01: 127 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2021-08-01: 95 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2021-09-01: 117 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2021-10-01: 78 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 4 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

602026-09-14 22:00 — 2 players2026-09-16 06:00 — 0 players2026-09-17 14:00 — 1 players2026-09-18 21:00 — 2 players2026-09-20 05:00 — 2 players2026-09-21 12:00 — 2 players2026-09-22 20:00 — 1 players2026-09-24 03:00 — 2 players2026-09-25 11:00 — 3 players2026-09-26 18:00 — 1 players2026-09-28 02:00 — 1 players2026-09-29 09:00 — 1 players2026-09-30 17:00 — 1 players2026-10-02 00:00 — 1 players2026-10-03 08:00 — 0 players2026-10-04 16:00 — 0 players2026-10-06 00:00 — 0 players2026-10-07 07:00 — 1 players2026-10-08 15:00 — 1 players2026-10-09 22:00 — 0 players2026-10-11 06:00 — 0 players2026-10-12 13:00 — 2 players2026-10-13 21:00 — 1 players2026-10-14 13:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerFull controller supportDualShock Controller SupportDualShock Controller SupportDualSense Controller SupportDualSense Controller SupportSteam Input API SupportFamily Sharing

9 supported languages: English, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Russian, Simplified Chinese

Where its players are

Share of Steam reviews by language (top languages measured) — a proxy for where the player base lives.

Player tags

RPGActionSci-fiSandboxCraftingStrategySurvivalAction RPGSimulationExploration

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.