We are happy and proud to announce Rift Riff, a new minimalistic tower defense game with concise gameplay, a light story, and vibrant pixel art!

Progress

Were currently knee-deep into making Rift Riff and will be sharing our progress with you regularly here on Steam. We have already come a long way in setting a baseline for gameplay, story, art style and music, but theres a lot that has still to be decided and made. Things like level designs, enemy types, tower types, bosses, upgrades, tier lists, modifiers, over-world, plot twists Wed love to keep you posted on our progress here on Steam and hope to receive feedback as to what to explore next.

Very Indie

Rift Riff is Adriaans first game using the Godot game engine, graphic designer Sims first pixel art game, and music composer and sound designer Matthijs first game ever. We think a team setup like this will take unique approaches and different perspectives on game conventions that will rub off onto the game. We expect a juicy, small, and casual but tactical game experience, with a light storyline, vibrant visuals, and beautiful music. Were *very* excited to show you more!

Currently Pre-alpha

Weve so far made a few levels and found some fun and interesting gameplay, but theres a lot more work to be done before we can get it into your hands. Mainly balancing the towers and enemies, coming up with a few more tower and enemy types, more juicy art and animations, a meta game and an over-world, extended UI, some essential technical features, steam deck support, and many more things. As of right now, we are working on a solid demo that will be hella fun (we hope :D).

Demo soon, full release later

In short, were planning to release a demo in a few months and do the games full release later this year. Theres also a few Steam festivals were hoping the game to be part of, such as the Tower Defense Fest and the Steam Next Fest. Wishlist and follow the game to make sure you dont miss the demo & release! ttyl, Adriaan, Sim, and Matthijs