Ethereal Rift

Ethereal Rift is a procedurally generated action RPG built around crafting character builds, collecting items and hack-and-slash combat. You play through levels designed to be completed in one sitting; each attempt gives you access to different and more powerful build options for future runs. The action unfolds in the middle worlds, corporeal planes between the ether and the void, locked in an eternal conflict for power.

Explore the middle worlds

Each middle world has multiple bosses and unique challenges. You explore its procedurally generated terrain and search for hidden secrets, adapting and specializing your build to meet what you find.

When you take a new host, you begin weak and without a way to defend yourself. Gather resources and equipment, help those aligned with you, and kill those who are not. Helper spirits offer blessings as you progress, helping you face void spirits infiltrating the world. Boss battles require skill, timing and preparation. If you die and cannot find a suitable host in time, you lose all progress in that world and return to the ether.

Build through blessings

Your host levels up as you progress, and you choose how it grows. At each level, whisps you have unlocked offer a small selection of blessings, which become more powerful with each level. You can also find whisps hidden in objects in the middle worlds to obtain lower-level blessings; finding one you do not already have unlocks it for future attempts. Blessings can let you strike twice with each hit, reflect a small amount of damage to nearby enemies, or build up poison damage with each hit.

Play together

You can play alone or with up to three other players. Friends can join or leave the same save game whenever you return to the ether, so you can team up against a difficult boss.