Lost Rift News

The wait is almost over. Lost Rift is preparing to launch into Early Access on September 25, 2025! To celebrate, we’re giving back to the community that’s been with us since the beginning.

Enter our Early Access giveaway below and share your link with friends. And be sure to wishlist Lost Rift on Steam so we unlock the milestones in our Wishlist Campaign!

[h2]Early Access Launch Giveaway[/h2]



We’ve partnered with Gleam to host a one of a kind giveaway with prizes for rifters ready to brave the islands. Entering is simple: complete actions to earn entries, and the more you do, the higher your chances to win.

• Five (5) digital copies of Lost Rift for free, so you and your squad can play together
  
• One-of-a-kind custom branded Steelseries Arctis Nova Pro Headset
  
• Custom Corsair K70 Keyboard
  
• Lost Rift branded Logitech G502X mouse
  
• Poster signed by the team

[h3]👉 ENTER THE GIVEAWAY[/h3]



[h2]Wishlist Milestone Campaign[/h2]

Lost Rift is all about surviving and thriving as a community, so we’re kicking off a wishlist milestone campaign. The more players who wishlist the game, the more exclusive rewards we’ll unlock for everyone.



Here’s what is waiting to be revealed:

1. High-resolution Digital Wallpaper & matching Steam Profile Background
   
2. First Look: New Hostile Creature Concept
   
3. Collectible Steam Trading Card Pack
   
4. Community-Powered Weapon: Fan-voted Name & Unique Skin
   
5. New Island Reveal

Every wishlist counts! Encourage your friends to wishlist Lost Rift and help us unlock these rewards for the entire community.

[h3]👉 ADD LOST RIFT TO YOUR WISHLIST[/h3]

Lost Rift is built with your support, feedback, and passion. Together, we can make this launch unforgettable. Join the giveaway, spread the word, and let’s unlock every reward tier before Early Access begins.

We will see you on the shores of Pioneers’ Landing!

[h2]Dr. Emilia Gates, Operation Victoria[/h2]
Subject: Post-incident analysis - U.S. Naval Aviation Event “Flight 19” (Reference: Event VIC-0191)

This morning, I received a dispatch from OpVic Headquarters in Universe Mundus. A multiversal anomaly was detected: five aircraft, a U.S. Navy training squadron, vanished into a high-altitude Rift above the Atlantic. HQ flagged the event, Flight 19, as active and advised my team to prepare for a possible incursion.

However, here in Victoria, the story has already come to an end. I instructed ground teams to re-check a known crash site in Sector Charlie-7, where we had previously catalogued an aviation wreckage. A second pass with updated reference material confirmed it: the wreck is remnants of Flight 19.

The fuselage is fragmented and deeply oxidized, but the tail numbers match precisely. We recovered some human remains, those of a pilot who had attempted to make camp in a nearby cave. The other four aircraft remain lost to us, and perhaps still lost in time and space as well.
This discovery confirms a troubling conclusion: time does not flow consistently between our worlds.

While Flight 19 is only now being reported as active in Universe Mundus, they have already crashed and perished here in Universe Sinum. This is not the first time we've noted desynchronization between timelines, but the clarity of this case is unsettling.

Whenever I am able to send communications back across the rift, the Flight 19 incident must be reclassified from active recovery to historical closure. I will record the coordinates and remains for archival purposes.

Dr. Emilia Gates

[h2]Dr. Emilia Gates, Operation Victoria[/h2]
Subject: Post-incident analysis - Soviet Naval Encounter (Reference: Event VIC-0327)

At 04:17 GMT, dimensional sensors registered a sudden rift ripple in Quadrant 4-C, followed by extreme pressure displacement and a brief but intense electromagnetic flare consistent with interdimensional stress. Preliminary acoustic readings suggested the rupture of non-native steel under pressure. Within 14 seconds of the breach, a Soviet Foxtrot-class submarine appeared with hull markings confirming identity as B-59.

The vessel manifested with visible hull deformation and severe oxidation, inconsistent with its expected condition if preserved in our timeline. Full biological scans were inconclusive; no life signs were found. However, movement was noted within the control room for approximately 43 seconds post-arrival.

Most notably, the vessel’s fifteen-kiloton nuclear warhead is still intact and is undergoing stabilization protocols. The presence of a functional nuclear warhead raises serious ethical and procedural concerns. This event predates our operational timeline and may require diplomatic oversight if data is leaked.

The warhead's radiation signature is currently stable, but anomalously “phased” and drifting slightly out of sync with baseline quantum decay. More pressingly, it confirms that nuclear materials are not neutralized by Rift passage. This phenomenon may provide insight into how time behaves under Rift displacement. The implication is staggering: radioactive material aging at a different rate than its environment.

Dr. Emilia Gates

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Get ready to wash ashore on the mysterious archipelago of Lost Rift. Lost Rift will be launching into Steam Early Access on September 25, 2025 for $24.99 USD, with a limited-time 20% launch discount!

Lost Rift is a first-person survival shooter combining base-building, cooperative PvE, and intense PvPvE gameplay. Set in a mysterious archipelago, players wash up on the island of Pioneers’ Landing to begin their journey to survive, explore, conquer, and progress.

The Early Access experience features new and exciting major game updates, including:

[h3]10+ Hours of New PvE Narrative Gameplay[/h3]
Venture beyond the safety of the shores into narrative quests, enemies, and secrets to uncover as you explore the island with your friends. With several unique survivors to recruit, your quest will uncover the mysteries behind each new area.


[h3]Solo & Co-Op PvE Survival[/h3]
Brave the archipelago solo or team up with up to four friends. Gather resources, craft weapons and armor, and take on hostile PvE enemies across dangerous landscapes.


[h3]PvPvE Multiplayer Combat Expeditionss[/h3]
Risk it all in multiplayer combat expeditions. Rally your team to secure rare loot and extract alive, or lose it all to rival players.


[h3]Survival Sandbox & Base Building[/h3]
Utilize a unique tile-based shelter building system to craft, repair, and upgrade your ultimate base camp. Build the perfect hideout to keep your squad alive and prepare for what’s ahead.


[h3]A World to Explore[/h3]
From dense jungles and sunny beaches to forgotten outposts and storm-lashed stations, each biome offers unique challenges, rewards, and threats.


[h3]A Note on Early Access[/h3]
The focus at launch is on delivering the core survival experience. Some final art and polish (such as greybox placeholders) will be updated in future milestones as we expand and evolve the game with the community’s feedback.

We’re incredibly grateful for the support we've received from the community, and we can’t wait to share all the major content updates we have planned once the game goes live! Please stay tuned for our Public Roadmap, which we will be sharing closer to launch time.

[h3]Our playtest is now offline![/h3]

Thank you to everyone who played during this stress test. The Lost Rift team remains deep in development as we push toward our Early Access launch. Your feedback from playtests has been invaluable, and we are already discussing how to incorporate your feedback in as much as possible. We’ve read your comments, followed your discussions, and yes… we know there are still bugs to squash.

Early Access is a partnership between our team and our players to shape Lost Rift into the best game it can be. By inviting you in before the full release, we have been able to gather real-world feedback, see how you engage with our systems, and identify what works and what doesn’t long before the final version. A stress test, like our most recent test, allows us to test our servers and make sure everything runs as smoothly as possible on many types of hardware. This collaborative approach also allows us to refine balance, squash bugs, and introduce features based directly on your feedback.

If you played in the playtest over the weekend, we’d love for you to take a short feedback survey. Feel free to include as much (or as little) info as you'd like to share with us.

Please click here to complete the survey.

[h2]Dr. Fynn Sullivan: The Cavebound Scientist[/h2]



For the last thirty years, Dr. Fynn Sullivan has lived isolated in a fortified cave on the same island of Victoria that you’ve washed up on. On his mind is a single obsession: to unlock the secrets of Kennedite, a material located on the island that he believes can open a path back home.

Fynn was once a leading researcher for Operation Victoria, the scientific organization present on the island. However, Fynn’s caution in studying Kennedite put him in direct conflict with the military’s impatient leader, Captain Wade Davis. Their rivalry exploded, quite literally, when his actions caused a deadly blast that severely injured Wade and many others.

Racked with guilt but vowing to continue his research, he disappeared. Understandably, Wade has despised him ever since. Now in his sixties, he’s worn down from years hunched over improvised workbenches, with a wild-eyed stare that hints at both brilliance and the toll of isolation. Fatigued but sharp, his mind never stops working.

When you find Fynn, he will not leave the safety of his cave base. He has managed to stay alive with the help of other survivors on the island, and now you are among them. Too wary of the dangers outside, he will enlist you as his hands and eyes. Exactly what he is working toward by asking you to help with his research, and how far he is willing to go, is something you will have to discover for yourself.

Helping Fynn will bring you closer to understanding Kennedite’s true power and deeper into his decades-long mission of escape, but it also risks opening doors that should remain shut.



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