Rift Raiders

Rift Raiders is a grimdark tactical roguelike built around short runs. You choose a hero, draft an army and raid a branching rift, deciding at each node whether to return home with your gains or venture deeper.

Lead your army

Your units fight in stacks, with one tile for each unit type and as many bodies in the stack as you brought. Each turn, you move a stack, attack or cast a spell; enemies then act in turn order.

Choose a hero from a faction, or one with no faction. You draft a keepsake, starting units and a first spell, then set out with a signature relic. Relics bought or found during a run make your hero stronger, and rare relics also have an effect of their own.

Choose your spells

Each faction's spells follow its own rules: Fire burns and cashes in the burn, Water changes the turn order, Forest roots and regrows, Light heals the wounded and punishes groups, and Dark spends health. You choose one faction at the gate and can buy spells from the others in the rift.

Choose a path

The rift is a branching map of fights, elite encounters, a boss, shops and story events with consequences. Its biomes range from snowfields to swamps and crystal caves. You choose where to go, and cannot return to a node once you pass it.

Extract and rebuild

You keep resources when you extract or defeat the boss, but lose what you carried if you fall first. Resources banked before the run remain yours. Spend what you bring home on buildings that change future runs: there is one building path per faction, neutral buildings for every army, and the Runic Anchor above them all.