The Riftbreaker

I really hoped to enjoy this game, but it's just not entertaining. Granted, I'm not very far along, but the gameplay loop is very basic and repetitive. Build base, research, defend, rebuild, research defend. Its not even a bad game, but between the monotony and the clunky UI during research and base building, I'm just not having fun.

Early on, the player character talks about how humans need to learn to live in harmony on this new world. This made me think there would be a coexistence gameplay path, where instead of just blowing up everything in sight I could research tech to slowly understand and reach equilibrium with these fascinating flora and fauna, create regenerative resource systems, and so on. Several hours later it was clear I'd inferred everything so very, very wrong. The protagonist's early words were just empty writing, no connection to game design or narrative ethos whatsoever. This game is exactly and only about mindlessly shooting and killing everything you see, then covering their corpses with ugly metal buildings to make more guns to make more corpses. There is no alternate path no matter what tech you research. Wish I'd figured this out within the first two hours so I could've returned it. At least the controls are smooth and the music is decent, so if turning a pristine world into a massive industrial strip mine for interstellar capitalism is your thing, you're gonna love this ♥♥♥♥. Bonus points if you enjoy drowning your dystopian metal cities in boundless corpse fields of native flora and fauna that had the temerity to defend their habitats. A more honest title would be "Planetary Strip Mine: Mass Extinction Protocol" but instead it's called "Riftbreaker" for some reason.

I could recommend the game somewhat but the fun is on a timer. It just gets very repetitive. The fact that you can build something and transfer resources automatically allows for play where you always risk very little and you don't have to be very involved in fighting which definitely is what the game wants you to do. I think this game is in the same category with They Are Billions - but here having a lot of everything is easy and just works. More than limited by resources for expansion, you are artificially limited by the speed of research. I would assume that it gets harder later but what does it mean in context? It just means there will be more enemies, harder enemies etc. but the fighting is not much fun.

Hilariously broken to the point the devs are just putting in cheat codes and expect you to be cool with that. You can fall through the map, have DLC quest chains just break, have bugs corrupt your entire save, and have enemies stuck outside the map bounds. Those are just the 'big' issues. The small ones are having a bad Z axis positioning in the swamp areas, meaning you gun fires into the ground when on land. Having flickering power, or liquid, states that cause you to have issues with base building or quests. I do love watching my resin flicker between 300 and 0 at the speed of light causing the quest to never complete. The devs fix? Why, they have cheat codes! Hurray! In fact, the cheat codes are well documented in the patch notes and the dev's responses on the steam forums. Some of these bugs are so problematic that you don't just need one cheat code, no no good sir. You need A LOT of cheat codes. In a row. The game itself is fine, boring and grindy but if you like the loop you like the loop. What you're not going to like is how often you're having to stop and research whether or not your save can be fixed or if you're totally screwed.

I got excited seeing this on Humble Choice as I really enjoyed V Rising and thought this would be similar, but unfortunately it's not. It's just really uninteresting and basic. Graphically it's awful - too much contrast, way too dark, enemies blend in to the environment, combat effects cover half the screen. The UI is awful and the cursor is always on-screen, even during combat (when a reticule would make more sense). There isn't a menu for changing your skin so you just spam 1 button to cycle through everything you have unlocked. Building mechanics are very basic and it's hard to see where your wires/pipes are due to all the grass. Combat is also too basic and consists of holding down the mouse buttons, no need to dodge attacks etc. It's described as a "hack & slash action rpg" on the store page but the combat is as basic as it comes. Most your playtime is just standing around waiting on timers e.g. researching new items, waiting for upgrades, waiting for enemy waves to spawn, waiting to generate enough resources. There's nothing to do. Voice acting sounds like it was AI generated and the story isn't interesting enough to offset the crappy gameplay. If you want to wait around and watch timers get this. If you want a game to play, buy V Rising instead.

[b]게임 적합성 평가 보고서[/b] 제 356 호 ▶가격 [5.6/10] (이 게임은 얼마나 값어치는 하는가?) 32,000원 (일단 DLC는 필수로 살 필요 없어서 가격에서 제외) ▶장단점 [15/30] (내가 게임을 통해 얻을 수 있는게 무엇인가?) ▷장점 - 조작이 딱히 불편하다 싶은 건 없음. - 창작마당 지원함. - 디펜스인데 멀티되고 뱀서처럼 하면 되니깐 나름 재미는 있음 (난 디펜스 게임 좋아함). - 핫키 커스터마이징 가능. 근데 마우스 위주로 조작해도 할만함. ▷단점 - 기본 게임 룰 없으면 무조건 하다가 막힘. 싱글로 좀 연습하다가 실전 멀티로 넘어가는걸 추천함. - 은근히 발적화 심함. 개체수 많아지면 적들이 본진이 아닌 프레임를 조지기 때문에 주의해야 함. - 창작마당 모드 설치 시 메인화면에서 렉걸림. 이 부분이 나름 신선한 똥겜. - 고이지 않아서 그럴지도 모르겠는데 서바이벌 모드는 무조건 정신없이 빠르게 플레이 해야해서 그런지 불쾌함. 차라리 캠페인 모드로 천천히 즐기면 재밌음. ▶신선도 [18/20] (돚거질을 한 비도덕적 게임이 아닌가?) - 스타? 뱀서? 팩토리오? 비슷해 보이긴 한데 해보면 다름. ▶개발사의 품위 [20/20] (개발사가 분조장에 유저와 기싸움을 즐기는가? 혹은 음흉한 일을 저질렀는가?) ▷유저와의 소통 - 딱히 문제는 없는 듯. ▷개발사의 잡음 - 없다. ▶평가자의 취향 [15/20] 그냥 친구가 살라고 하길래 같이 사서 했는데 은근 시간이 녹아 내리더라. 종합점수 [h3]73.6[/h3] 취향 맞으면 구매 해도 괜찮음.

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I've seen the comparisons, Helldivers, TD and Factorio and they're apt - it's an amalgam of the concepts of those loops mashed into one. Sound's like a win right? However, it's also kind of dull, repetitive and boring. Long research waits, muddy combat dulled by lackluster performance. Audio, both sfx and voice performances that fail to impress - verging on feeling like it's AI (if it's not outright). Feedback is sometimes difficult to ascertain, making it easy to make missteps because you're not completely aware of what's happening. Control is clunky and unsatisfying, ammo counts on some weapons are pitifully low tor force a reload and rearm mechanic. There's lots of of shiny graphics, loot drops etc. though! The game itself is reasonably priced, but to paywall endgame content and fleshing out an already limited loop of a game behind so much DLC is kind of disappointing. On top of the fact that if you thought you were going to coop this and your friend started a session with the DLC enabled, if you don't have it you're forking it over to play or stuck out of the "fun." I was already on the fence seeing this was an ARPG as this genre is plagued with hack'n'slash repetition and clones, so the addition of new loops to a different genre than usual seemed interesting. It's a shame it didn't pan out. On the surface non-promotional price tag seems like it might be worthwhile, but my game budget is tight these days and requiring DLC on top of a painfully average game with a unique concept unfortunately doesn't quite hit the mark.