
The game offers a continuous, non-linear experience from start to finish, without chapters and individual levels. Or it would be fantastic if there wasn’t for a few annoying bugs and inconsistencies I will address a bit later. The Riftbreaker is a clever and challenging hybrid of a survival base-building strategy and action RPG that sometimes feels like a tower defense game crossed with open-world exploration adventure. There is no backup nor plan B, just you and your wits in one of the most dangerous environments known to man.

Riggs, “you will need to explore, scrounge up resources, construct and fight like hell. Equipped only with a sentient mech suit dubbed „Mr. Nowak, a scientist/commando hybrid sent through a one-way rift portal to construct the bigger, two-way installation that would enable colonization of the said planet. Except for the fact that you are alone and there is no fence unless you make it yourself. It’s pretty much the same horror on Galatea 37, a planet on the other side of the Milky Way galaxy, the wild, untamed place that has been found somewhat compatible with human life. Out there beyond that fence, every living thing that crawls, flies, or squats in the mud wants to kill you and eat your eyes out for jujubes“. If there is a hell, you might want to go there for some R&R after a tour on Pandora. You’re on Pandora, ladies, and gentlemen.


Colonel Miles Quaritch from James Cameron’s Avatar had this to say to every new batch of base security personnel: „ You’re not in Kansas anymore.
