ActionAdventureIndieRPGSimulationStrategy
The Riftbreaker
Give it 3 hours
Gets good by 3h almost every game dips in hours 2–3
Fully opens up by 10h rated like by long-time players
Reach the ending 36% of players who started
Started playing 71% of owners
Steam reviews 90% positive of 25,111
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours 1 in 3 reviews are negative (33%); after 20h it's 1 in 13 (8%).
- Fully opens up by hour 10.
- 36% of players who start reach the ending.
- Most players drop off before “Walk in the Park ”: only 36% of starters get there.
- 71% of owners got the first achievement.
When it gets good
Share of positive reviews by how many hours the reviewer had played when writing the review.
before it gets good opening up fully opened up
Based on all 25,244 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 300 reviews: 37.7h for positive, 11.4h for negative. Almost every game is rated lower in the first 2–3 hours: that window includes refunds and quick first impressions. What matters is how deep the dip is and how fast the game recovers.
Where players quit
Share of players who started the game and reached each story milestone. 100% is the most common achievement (71.4% of owners), so people who bought the game and never launched it don't count.
- Started playing 100%
- Walk in the Park Vacation on Galatea 37 complete! Finish the campaign or the survival mode. Most players quit here 36% −64
story milestone ending biggest drop-off
Story milestones were labeled by AI from achievement names and descriptions; mistakes are possible.
All achievements (54)
story milestone ending side
- Ashley Phone Home Build your first Communications Hub in the campaign or the survival mode. 100%
- Run Robot Run! Run 21 097 meters. 89%
- AI driven Simultaneously own over 100 AI cores. 80%
- Get off my Lawn You really want to keep it clean. Destroy 10 000 destructibles. 80%
- I know Kung-Fu Use skills 500 times. 67%
- Horrible Person You are a horrible person! Exterminate 1000 neutral creatures. 55%
- Something Useful Use 250 consumables 54%
- Beam Me Up No need for Scotty here. Make 101 rift jumps. 51%
- Scientist? Kill 50 000 hostile creatures. 48%
- Queen Bee I am the swarm. Have 50 drones of any kind active at the same time. 47%
- Inspector Gadget Have all the available upgrade, consumable and weapon slots filled. 46%
- Swiss Bank Account Create enough storage for 50 000 carbonium. 45%
- Kaboom! Make a big bang. Place a Nuclear Mine. 44%
- Book Worm Read at least 75% of entries in the encyclopedia/bestiary 39%
- I am a Superhero now. Open 5 Power Wells. 37%
- Looking for a Perfect House Build an outpost on 4 different biomes in campaign mode. 37%
- Walk in the Park Vacation on Galatea 37 complete! Finish the campaign or the survival mode. 36%
- All that Glitters Simultaneously mine every resource type in the game. 36%
- Investing in Liquid Assets Build 1500 pipe segments. 36%
- The Treasure Hunter No stone unturned. Find at least 75% of hidden underground treasures on any map. 34%
- Forbidden Knowledge Complete all research in one tech tree. 30%
- The Great Wall of Galatea 37 Build 21 196 meters worth of walls. 30%
- But is it better than mine? Find 50 weapons or upgrades. 29%
- No Water? No Problem! Transfer 5000 of any liquid through compressor/decompressor. 29%
- I'm SIGMA Kill 30 OMEGA Class Creatures. 29%
- Tornado season Shred 250 destructible props with a tornado skill. 28%
- Strip mining Leave nothing behind. Extract at least 75% of resource veins in any map. 24%
- For profit! Dismantle 10 items at once. 23%
- All Seeing Eye Nothing gets by you. Cover at least 75% of any map with radar coverage. 22%
- Final Form Equip every single weapon slot for Mr. Riggs with extreme variant gear. 19%
- Excavation Site Dig through or destroy 1000 cavern walls. 18%
- Gold Digger Open 10 metallic bioanomalies. 17%
- Not enough space Scan for a new location on Galatea 37. 16%
- Underground Glow Open 10 bioanomalies in the Crystal Caverns biome. 13%
- Overkill? Fire 2 miniguns at the same time nonstop for 15 seconds. 12%
- Leaving Empty Handed Mr. Riggs "dies" and drops the last weapon he was holding. 11%
- Death Metal Finish survival or story on metallic biome. 11%
- Ask AI, it won't lie. Use the "Search" option in Research or Inventory. 11%
- Enter the Exit Finish survival mode in the Crystal Caverns biome or the Into The Dark story campaign. 8.4%
- Mighty Morphin' Tower Rangers Build 50 Morphium Towers. 7.7%
- They aren’t that tough. Kill 20 canceroths. 7.7%
- Going Green Complete any Survival by building only Solar, Wind, Biomass or Geothermal powerplants. 7.4%
- Are we the bad guys now? Destroy 1000 enemies with HCM. 6.9%
- Decimation Kill 500 Flurians. 6.4%
- Dig or Die Kill 30 Drillgors. 6.2%
- Get out of my swamp! Finish survival mode in the Fungal Swamp biome or the Swamp story campaign. 6.2%
- Indecisive Explore at least 50% of a mission area before setting up your HQ in survival. 6.0%
- It's bigger than I thought Build the first Megastructure. 6.0%
- Excalibur Build an Extreme Quality Sword and fully mod it with 3 Extreme mods. 5.3%
- Home alone Set up 250 traps. 5.3%
- For science! Extract resources from Poogret’s poo – 10 times 3.4%
- I'll do it myself... Get your hands dirty! Kill 500 aliens with Mr Riggs' bare hands. 3.2%
- Brittle Kill 100 enemies with the crystal walls' explosion. 3.1%
- Next planet, please Achieve your final goal and save Galatea 37 3.1%
Steam page Updated: 2026-10-18.