Rift Keeper
Embark on your journey, travel through rifts and restore the balance as the Rift Keeper in this handcrafted 2D Metroidvania universe with challenging, fast-paced action gameplay.
Rift Keeper is an indie developed by Graphite Lab, released 14 January 2019 on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Rift Keeper is
Rift Keeper is an indie game developed by Graphite Lab and released in 2019. It is available on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Embark on your journey, travel through rifts and restore the balance as the Rift Keeper in this handcrafted 2D Metroidvania universe with challenging, fast-paced action gameplay.
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
What it launched against
Rift Keeper launched on 14 January 2019, within three weeks of Resident Evil 2, Kingdom Hearts III, Slay the Spire and Apex Legends. It arrived 6 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Resident Evil 2, Kingdom Hearts III, Slay the Spire, Apex Legends.
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