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The Riftbreaker

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The Riftbreaker
The Riftbreaker cover
Developers
EXOR Studios
Publishers
EXOR Studios
Surefire.Games
Engines
Schmetterling
Release dates
Windows October 14, 2021
Reception
Metacritic 83
OpenCritic 80
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase, DLC, Subscription gaming service
Modes Singleplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives Bird's-eye view
Controls Direct control
Genres Hack and slash, Strategy
Vehicles Robot
Art styles Realistic
Themes Sci-fi, Space
The Riftbreaker on HowLongToBeat
The Riftbreaker on IGDB
The Riftbreaker on MobyGames

General information

Developer Discord server
GOG.com Community Discussions
GOG.com Support Page
Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Monetization

Type Notes
Expansion pack The expansion pack includes new campaigns, mechanics, creatures, and technologies.
One-time game purchase The game requires an upfront purchase to access.
Subscription gaming service Available via Xbox Game Pass for PC.

DLC and expansion packs

Name Notes
Metal Terror
Windows
Into the Dark
Windows

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows
Microsoft Store %USERPROFILE%/Documents/The Riftbreaker/config
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/780310/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows %USERPROFILE%/Documents/The Riftbreaker/campaignV2
Microsoft Store %LOCALAPPDATA%/Packages/EXORStudios.TheRiftbreakerPC_9y41ntp9cv1jj/SystemAppData/wgs
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/780310/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game cloud syncing

Video

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
When running the Steam version in a Wine Virtual Desktop on Linux, setting the virtual desktop to the system's total/combined multimonitor resolution works on Proton-GE 7.x.[1]
Ultra-widescreen
Hor+ gameplay at 32:9 aspect ratio. User interface elements are locked to 16:9.
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Also no zoom control unless via console command[2](with caveat[3])
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)
FXAA, TXAA.
SSAA via the Resolution scaling setting (up to 200%).
High-fidelity upscaling
FSR 2.1, XeSS 1.0
[4]
Vertical sync (Vsync)
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
Uncapped.
High dynamic range display (HDR)
See the glossary page for potential alternatives.
Ray tracing (RT)
Both AMD and Nvidia supported. Ray traced shadows and ambient occlusion, but not reflections.

Input

Keybinding configuration.
Keybinding configuration.
Controller binding configuration.
Controller binding configuration.

Audio

Audio options.
Audio options.

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Music, sound effects, dialogue, streaming events, announcements. Individual announcements can be toggled.
Surround sound
Subtitles
Most dialogue is always subtitled; otherwise, announcements, such as for building damage and missing resources, are not subtitled.
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Toggleable; called Mute inactive window.
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
Simplified Chinese
Traditional Chinese
French
German
Japanese
Korean
Polish
Portuguese
Brazilian Portuguese
Russian
Spanish

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 11, 12 D3D12 required for ray tracing.
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 8.1
Processor (CPU) Intel Core i5 (2nd Generation)
AMD Bulldozer (4 cores)
System memory (RAM) 8 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 8 GB
Video card (GPU) Nvidia GeForce GTX 750
AMD Radeon R7 265
2 GB of VRAM
DirectX 11 compatible
Sound (audio device) DirectX compatible
A 64-bit operating system is required.


Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data (use Wine regedit to access Windows registry paths). Games with Steam Cloud support may store data in ~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/780310/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (780310) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References

  1. Verified by User:Incassum on 2024-01-18
    On Linux, running the Steam version in a Wine Virtual Desktop set to your total/combined multimonitor resolution works on Proton-GE 7.x; in-game, setting to "fullscreen" correctly display the Virtual Desktop resolution.
  2. Zoom control - last accessed on 2021-10-31
  3. [1] - last accessed on 2021-10-31
    "Your game might stutter—or even crash—if you abuse the zoom option too much. But that really depends on your PC, so give it a try at your own risk."
  4. Latest FSR 2 Supported Games List - last accessed on 2022-11-30
  5. 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 Verified by User:Expack3 on 2021-10-21
    Tested using official DS4 controller connected to my laptop via USB.