Rift Riff News

Try the new demo and trailer for Rift Riff, a fast and "strategically tight" tower defense game

If you love tower defense games, you're going to want to check out the new demo and trailer for the upcoming Rift Riff. A "strategically tight" game, the developer says.

Read the full article here: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/02/try-the-new-demo-and-trailer-for-rift-riff-a-fast-and-strategically-tight-tower-defense-game/

New Demo out now!

Hey Rifters! We're super excited to announce that our new demo is now live! We've worked our asses off to get this demo into your library. It's the first hour of the game + a bunch of challenges if you really want to get your hands dirty :D

In this demo:

8 worlds
6 tower types
1 upgrade type
10 monster types
8 challenges

This will certainly be enough to give you an idea for where the full release is headed. As we speak, we're making more worlds, more towers, more enemies, more scenarios, more challenges, more, more, more.

[h3]NOTE[/h3]
Localisation will drop on the 13th. So if you fancy playing in a language other than English, hang tight!

Looking for playtesters!

We're looking for people to play Rift Riff and help us understand what parts of the game need improvement. At this stage in the game's development, a screen recording of the game paired with your voice (no face necessary) is the only feedback useful to us. If you're open to that, we'll send you a Steam Playtest key for the latest full version of Rift Riff, include you in the in-game credits, and send you a key of Rift Riff as a thank you (should you want one).

Sign up to playtest here:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe2I12Gc9X1iCB3toLAB0maFnZ0HJwqVUjIlqRpxrMhTjV85w/viewform

If you have questions, we can answer those on our newly setup Rift Riff Discord server:
https://discord.gg/3J4JWhBCkq

We look forward to seeing Rift Riff in your hands!

New Demo Available Soon

Hey! We're making a new demo that we'll be releasing soon. We just took the current demo offline, because we feel we made too much progress in mechanics, worlds, quality of life improvements and over-world progression, to just patch the latest demo.

There are so many small and large things we can't wait to share with you! We're now working on more levels, more levels and.. more levels. Once we've tied it all together we will publish the new demo and update ya'll here!

NOTE: If you're a streamer/content creator, reach out to us for full access to our current build!

Progressing and unlocking

New currency alert!

While Juice is being sucked out of the ground to feed your insatiable tower construction lust, Prisms will be granted to you after completing a level:

These prisms can then unlock new towers, features and upgrades at shops scattered throughout the over-world. You’ll need these unlocks to broaden your playing style and enable different strategies and tower combos as you delve further into the later levels.

See you in the next announcement!