Games Like The Riftbreaker

An open-ended factory management game with RTS and tower defense elements.

Why similar: Base Building 24.9%, Tower Defense 21.6%, Resource Management 9.3%, Sandbox 7.6%, Building 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: Combines resource automation with tower defense gameplay in a way that mirrors the base-building depth of The Riftbreaker.

They Are Billions is a Steampunk strategy game set on a post-apocalyptic planet. Build and defend colonies to survive against the billions of the infected that seek to annihilate the few remaining living humans. Can humanity survive after the zombie apocalypse?

Why similar: Base Building 35%, Tower Defense 17.8%, RTS 17.3%, Survival 12%, Building 5.7%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses heavily on the survival and tower defense aspects, challenging you to build a fortress capable of withstanding massive swarms of enemies.

Command Mobile Outpost and take XEN Firearm to venture deep into the Signet surveillance off-limit area. Collect unique Weapon Units. Amp up the firepower of the Outpost that fights with you. This is an FTD game - FPS, Tower Defense, Base Building and much more all at the same time.

Why similar: Base Building 24.4%, Tower Defense 23%, RTS 15.6%, Crafting 11%, Survival 10.2%

Why You'll Like It: Blends first-person shooter combat with base-building and tower defense, capturing the high-stakes action of defending a remote outpost.

Age of Darkness: Final Stand is a dark fantasy survival RTS where you must illuminate, build and defend humanity’s last bastion against hordes of Nightmares. Set in the remnants of a kingdom consumed by a deadly fog, you decide. Will you hide in the light? Or take back your world.

Why similar: Base Building 21.8%, Tower Defense 21.5%, RTS 17%, Building 10.6%, Survival 10%

Why You'll Like It: A survival RTS that pits you against massive hordes, emphasizing the need for both tactical defense and base expansion.

Factorio is a game about building and creating automated factories to produce items of increasing complexity, within an infinite 2D world. Use your imagination to design your factory, combine simple elements into ingenious structures, and finally protect it from the creatures who don't really like you.

Why similar: Base Building 34.5%, Sandbox 13.1%, Crafting 12.2%, Resource Management 12.1%, Survival 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: The gold standard for resource management and automation, providing the same logistical satisfaction found in building your base in The Riftbreaker.

Satisfactory is a first-person open-world factory building game with a dash of exploration and combat. Play alone or with friends, explore an alien planet, create multi-story factories, and enter conveyor belt heaven!

Why similar: Base Building 32.1%, Crafting 13.5%, Building 11.5%, Multiplayer 11.5%, Sandbox 10.3%

Why You'll Like It: Offers a first-person perspective on complex factory building and automation, perfect for players who enjoy the industrial side of The Riftbreaker.

Design and build fortresses brick by brick to stand against endless hordes of Horrors in this real-time strategy game with resource management, siege defense, and exploration. Lead from the ramparts, push back the darkness, and hold fast against the creatures of the Mist.

Why similar: Base Building 20.3%, Tower Defense 18.5%, RTS 15%, Isometric 12.3%, Building 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: A strategy game that emphasizes building defensive structures brick-by-brick to survive waves of monsters, mirroring the tactical base-building of the seed.

Slice, burn, toss, zap, grind and gib massive hordes of repugnant orcs in this long-awaited successor to the award-winning Orcs Must Die! series.

Why similar: Tower Defense 47.7%, Online Co-Op 17.6%, Co-op Campaign 15.9% ★, Multiplayer 10.8%, Strategy 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the action-oriented tower defense experience, requiring you to actively participate in combat while managing your traps.

Abiotic Factor is a survival crafting experience for 1-6 players set in the depths of an underground research facility. Caught between paranormal containment failure, a military crusade, and chaos from a dozen realms, the world’s greatest minds must survive against the universe’s biggest threats.

Why similar: Base Building 18.6%, Online Co-Op 16.8%, Co-op Campaign 15.6% ★, Crafting 10.6%, Survival 10.5%

Why You'll Like It: A survival-crafting game that emphasizes base-building and scientific research in a hostile environment, similar to the setting of The Riftbreaker.

Unique fusion of a top-down shooter and tower defense strategy. You are the invader! Use destructive weapons or lead your enemies into a maze of towers. Strategize in the build mode by carefully selecting various types of alien towers or throw yourself right into the heat of the battle.

Why similar: Tower Defense 61.9%, Isometric 24.4%, Strategy 11%, Singleplayer 2.7%

Why You'll Like It: A unique fusion of top-down shooter and tower defense that requires active combat participation and strategic structure placement.

Lumencraft is a unique combination of a top-down, rogue-like shooter and base building with tower defense elements. Dig and light up dark halls of a fully destructible environment on procedurally generated maps and campaign levels to find precious Lumen - humanity's only chance for survival.

Why similar: Base Building 22.9%, Tower Defense 21.9%, Action RPG 16.5%, Sandbox 14.6%, Survival 11.3%

Why You'll Like It: Features destructible environments and top-down action, focusing on mining and defending your base against subterranean threats.

Explore a vast cavern of creatures, relics and resources in a mining sandbox adventure for 1-8 players. Mine, build, fight, craft and farm to unravel the mystery of the ancient Core.

Why similar: Base Building 18.5%, Online Co-Op 15.5%, Crafting 10.8%, Sandbox 10.5%, Survival 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: Combines exploration, survival, and base-building with top-down action, capturing the loop of gathering resources to improve your combat capabilities.

Build the most efficient intergalactic factory in space simulation strategy game Dyson Sphere Program! Harness the power of stars, collect resources, plan and design production lines and develop your interstellar factory from a small space workshop to a galaxy-wide industrial empire.

Why similar: Base Building 43.9%, Building 18.4%, Sandbox 14.8%, Resource Management 13.5%, Strategy 4.3%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on large-scale automation and resource management, appealing to players who enjoy the logistical complexity of The Riftbreaker.

Diplomacy is Not an Option is a strategy game set in a medieval fantasy world. Build your town and defenses, raise huge armies and fight against massive hordes of enemies. How long can you survive?

Why similar: Base Building 32.4%, Tower Defense 16.1%, Resource Management 13.7%, RTS 13.3%, Isometric 11.9%

Why You'll Like It: A base-building strategy game where you must defend your colony against thousands of enemies using physics-based combat and walls.

A space survival open world terraforming crafting game, designed for 1 to 10 players. Alter the ecosystem of an inhospitable planet to render it habitable for humanity. Survive, gather resources, and build your base. Then, generate oxygen, warmth, and pressure to create a brand new biosphere.

Why similar: Base Building 23.8%, Online Co-Op 19%, Survival 11.7%, Crafting 11.5%, Building 11.4%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the survival and base-building aspects of terraforming a hostile planet, emphasizing resource gathering and expansion.

Awaken as a Vampire. Hunt for blood in nearby settlements to regain your strength and evade the scorching sun to survive. Raise your castle and thrive in an ever-changing, open world full of mystery. Gain allies online and conquer the land of the living.

Why similar: Base Building 22.5%, Online Co-Op 15%, Survival 13.1%, Crafting 11%, Multiplayer 10.5%

Why You'll Like It: An action-RPG with significant base-building and survival elements, focusing on character progression and territory control.

A minimalist game about building and defending your little kingdom.

Why similar: Tower Defense 39.7%, Base Building 21%, Isometric 13.9%, Building 11.3%, Strategy 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: A minimalist strategy game that strips tower defense down to its core, focusing on base expansion and combat waves.

Build, quest, and conquer across an infinite procedurally generated world. Play alone or with friends as you establish a settlement and explore deep dungeons, fight monsters and bosses, mine rare ores, craft magical equipment, recruit specialists for your colony, and more!

Why similar: Base Building 17.7%, Online Co-Op 14.1%, Sandbox 14%, Multiplayer 13.3%, Crafting 13%

Why You'll Like It: A top-down survival game that blends base-building, automation, and action-RPG combat in a procedurally generated world.

A classic real-time strategy game with an epic single player campaign, multiplayer & coop, set in the alternate reality of 1920+

Why similar: RTS 32.6%, Base Building 32.1%, Online Co-Op 14.7%, Multiplayer 11.2%, Strategy 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: An RTS set in an alternate history with mechs, capturing the mechanical aesthetic and tactical combat feel of the seed game.

You are Flameborn, last ember of hope of a dying race. Awaken, survive the terror of a corrupting fog, and reclaim the lost beauty of your kingdom. Venture into a vast world, vanquish punishing bosses, build grand halls and forge your path in this co-op survival action RPG for up to 16 players.

Why similar: Base Building 21.9%, Online Co-Op 17.6%, Survival 12.8%, Crafting 10.4%, Multiplayer 10%

Why You'll Like It: An open-world survival game with deep building mechanics and action-RPG combat, focusing on exploration and base development.

Sanctum 2 is the sequel to the world’s first Tower Defense/FPS hybrid game. Pick from four unique character classes and embark on a mission to protect the oxygen-producing Cores from hordes of deadly aliens who are threatened by their existence.

Why similar: Tower Defense 60.2%, Online Co-Op 18.2%, Multiplayer 9.2%, Strategy 6.8%, Survival 4.8%

Why You'll Like It: A hybrid of first-person shooter and tower defense that requires you to build mazes and fight alongside your defenses.

A vibrant blend of survival and action RPG for 1-10 players! Craft legendary items, grow your home base and embark on an epic journey through procedural realms to face towering creatures hel-bent on unleashing Ragnarök. Valhalla can wait, Einherjar!

Why similar: Online Co-Op 21.1%, Base Building 20.6%, Action RPG 12.9%, Multiplayer 10.8%, Hack and Slash 10.7%

Why You'll Like It: Combines survival and action-RPG elements with base defense, requiring players to protect their village from nightly attacks.

Desynced is a sci-fi strategy game with fully customizable units and behaviors. Gather, build, research, and explore the unknown. Alone or with friends, unveil the mystery of an AI on the edge of self-awareness and uncover the hidden truth in this blend of strategy, automation, and exploration.

Why similar: Base Building 20.4%, RTS 14.7%, Sandbox 10.8%, Online Co-Op 10.3%, Building 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: A strategy game that uses automation and programming to manage your base, perfect for those who enjoy the technical side of The Riftbreaker.

Build a sophisticated robot factory optimized to perfection in an infinite voxel world. Mine and harvest resources, automate your production lines and manage complex systems while researching your way to become the galaxy’s leading robotics megacorp.

Why similar: Base Building 19.2%, Online Co-Op 15.4%, Crafting 10.6%, Building 10%, Sandbox 10%

Why You'll Like It: A voxel-based automation game that focuses on building massive factories and exploring a vast, procedurally generated world.

A first-person survival game set on a post-apocalyptic, ecologically ruined Earth. Play solo or with up to 3 friends as you build, upgrade, and fly a high-tech airship. Scavenge resources, craft tools, and face dangers on the surface as you hunt for a cure to save humanity.

Why similar: Base Building 27.8%, Crafting 15.2%, Survival 14.5%, Building 12.1%, Multiplayer 11.4%

Why You'll Like It: A survival game set on a ruined Earth where you build and upgrade a high-tech airship base to explore and gather resources.

A base-building open-world survival shooter that replaces your typical base with a giant drill. Alone or with friends, explore an island plagued by eruptions, upgrade your drill, and fight robots to uncover what's been hiding beneath the surface.

Why similar: Base Building 19.1%, Online Co-Op 19%, Crafting 12.6%, Survival 11.9%, Multiplayer 10.8%

Why You'll Like It: Features a mobile base that you must upgrade and defend, capturing the survival and exploration themes of the seed.

Build. Automate. Defend.

Why similar: Base Building 20.8%, Tower Defense 19.3%, Online Co-Op 16.9%, Sandbox 10.1%, Multiplayer 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: A minimalist automation and tower defense game that focuses on resource logistics and defending your core.

Co-operative top-down shooter game available for free. An epic bug hunt featuring a unique blend of co-op play and squad-level tactics.

Why similar: Procedural Generation 100%

Why You'll Like It: A top-down, squad-based shooter that emphasizes co-op combat against hordes of aliens, mirroring the action-heavy segments of The Riftbreaker.

StarRupture is a first-person open world base-building game with advanced combat and tons of exploration. Play alone or in a group on this sublime and ever-changing planet, extract and manage resources, create your complex industrial system and fight off hordes of alien monsters.

Why similar: Base Building 25.9%, Online Co-Op 16.4%, Survival 13.3%, Crafting 13.1%, Sandbox 12.2%

Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!

Why similar: Sandbox 21.2%, Survival 16.2%, Multiplayer 14.8%, Crafting 14.6%, Building 13.3%

Why You'll Like It: Provides a deep experience in exploration, base-building, and boss-fighting, offering a similar sense of progression and defense.

Build and design the terrain while defending your stronghold against alien invasion in this unique Roguelike tower defense. Choose from 30 heroes, survive enemy waves, and upgrade a variety of destructive towers to hold the line!

Why similar: Tower Defense 24.2%, Base Building 21.4%, RTS 15.2%, Building 9.1%, Isometric 8.9%

The Riftbreaker: Prologue allows you to experience the events taking place before the story campaign of the main game. Explore an entirely new world. Gather resources. Build up a base. Defend yourself from thousands of alien creatures.

Why similar: Base Building 13.2%, Online Co-Op 11.9%, Tower Defense 9.5%, Hack and Slash 7.6%, Isometric 6.9%

Command distinct factions in a desperate struggle for power and resources in Tempest Rising - a classic RTS set on Earth after a nuclear war.

Why similar: RTS 49.7%, Base Building 21.6%, Strategy 12.9%, Multiplayer 7.4%, Isometric 6.9%

Wage war across entire solar systems with massive armies at your command. Annihilate enemy forces with world-shattering TITAN-class units, and demolish planets with massive super weapons!

Why similar: RTS 26.2%, Base Building 23.6%, Online Co-Op 18.8%, Building 11.9%, Multiplayer 11.3%

Why You'll Like It: An RTS that scales up to massive planetary combat, appealing to players who enjoy large-scale base management and destruction.

Machine Mind is an action game in a post-apocalyptic setting with elements of survival and RTS. You will fight, craft modules, build your transport, develop and protect your base. You can control other vehicles to automate operations. Discover all the secrets of the destroyed world!

Why similar: Base Building 17%, Tower Defense 15.7%, Isometric 11.4%, Crafting 8.8%, Action RPG 8.8%

Stellarcraft is a sci-fi tower defense adventure: explore alien planets, gather resources, build defenses, and fend off waves of enemies, solo or in 4-player co-op. 🚀

Why similar: Co-op Campaign 21.1% ★, Base Building 20%, Online Co-Op 18.5%, RTS 11.5%, Survival 9.2%

'Night of the Dead' is an open-world game that combines elements of exploration, tower defense, survival, and crafting. Traverse a world dominated by zombies while collecting various resources and powerful equipment. Build a fortress to survive the hordes of zombies that swarm every night!

Why similar: Tower Defense 18%, Base Building 17.5%, Online Co-Op 16.1%, Crafting 10%, Sandbox 9.5%

Tower Factory is a tower defense and automation game with roguelite elements. Optimize resource production using conveyor systems while defending against monster waves. Can you find and destroy the enemy tower before it's too late?

Why similar: Base Building 18.8%, Tower Defense 18.8%, RTS 13.8%, Crafting 9.4%, Sandbox 7.6%

A dark fantasy city builder where you must rebuild civilization in the face of apocalyptic rains. As the Queen’s Viceroy, lead humans, beavers, lizards, foxes, and harpies to reclaim the wilderness and secure a future for civilization's last survivors.

Why similar: Base Building 26%, Economy 16.2%, Building 13.8%, Sandbox 13.6%, Survival 12.7%

Experience a vast Sci-fi open-world survival TD game set on a distant planet deep in the universe. Craft, build, mine, trade, explore, and survive in this alien world. Collect Data and defend against waves of enemies seeking to banish you. Enjoy the adventure in Singleplayer or Multiplayer.

Why similar: Base Building 16.9%, Online Co-Op 16.1%, Tower Defense 15%, Crafting 10%, Survival 9.7%

Stormgate is a free-to-play real-time strategy game with a full single-player campaign, 3-player co-op, and PvP versus modes on over 60 maps. Our Editor is also freely available for you to craft just about any custom game mode you can imagine. Join our development journey today!

Why similar: Base Building 34.2%, RTS 26.4%, Multiplayer 16.4%, Building 14.4%, Strategy 7.2%

The SpellForce 3: Versus Edition gives you the chance to enter the battlefields of Eo for free, letting you test your RTS skills against AI opponents or even other human players.

Why similar: RTS 16.4%, Base Building 14.8%, Online Co-Op 13.8%, Building 13.6%, Strategy RPG 12.6%

Pilot a dwarven mech and fly a dragon as you build and defend outposts across a shattered magical realm. Craft, explore, and survive the dangers of floating islands corrupted by the Taint in this action-packed survival RPG with base-building and co-op.

Why similar: Base Building 25%, Hack and Slash 17.4%, Crafting 15.4%, Building 15.2%, Action RPG 15.2%

The King's dimensional orb has malfunctioned, bringing hordes of monsters into the Kingdom. Defend your safeground against the monsters by gathering resources, building defenses, upgrading your arsenal, and surviving long enough to find the source of monsters and destroy it.

Why similar: Base Building 19.7%, Tower Defense 18.6%, Hack and Slash 14.3%, Crafting 11.3%, Survival 10.8%

Techtonica is a first-person factory automation game with a gripping mystery about mining your way out from the depths of an alien planet. Explore bioluminescent caves, mold destructible terrain, construct a massive subterranean factory. Dig your way toward answers & discover the secrets of Calyx.

Why similar: Base Building 24.4%, Building 13.3%, Online Co-Op 12.8%, Crafting 11.1%, Sandbox 11%

The last days of man are at hand.. Two years after the Infinite War the once great warring nations now lie in ruins, and humanity’s hope for a brighter future is nothing but a bitter memory. A new, seemingly unstoppable enemy, supported by the zealots of The Order, now seeks to eradicate mankind: UEF, Aeon Loyalist, and Cybran alike.

Why similar: RTS 42%, Base Building 22.4%, Multiplayer 14.8%, Strategy 12.7%, Online Co-Op 6.5%

Command massive armies in this epic mech auto-battler. Draft your troops, customize your units, master your formations, and crush enemies in spectacular 3D battles. All strategy, no clickfest. Outsmart opponents in 1v1, 2v2, free-for-all, or Survival Mode.

Why similar: RTS 49.5%, Multiplayer 30.5%, Strategy 16.3%, Singleplayer 3.8%

A defense RTS where you can move turrets at will. Extract resources, upgrade technology, and defend against enemy swarms in a gripping space campaign. Hold the line, set up your turrets, and brace for screen-filling hordes!

Why similar: Base Building 19.3%, Tower Defense 19.2%, RTS 15%, Building 14.1%, Survival 10.1%

EVERSPACE 2 is a fast-paced single-player spaceship shooter with exploration in space and on planets, tons of loot, RPG elements, mining, and crafting. Experience an exciting sci-fi story set in a vivid, handcrafted open world full of secrets, puzzles, and perils.

Why similar: Action RPG 62.8%, Exploration 30.7%, Singleplayer 6.4%

Top-down zombie shooter with tower defense elements featuring up to 4 players local and online co-op. Build your base by day, defend it by night, put your skills to the test to stay alive as long as possible! Darkness is coming. How long can YOU survive?

Why similar: Tower Defense 25.5%, Base Building 22.2%, Isometric 14.1%, Online Co-Op 13.4%, Survival 10.3%

Design and simulate the starships of your dreams! Command your ship or fleet in epic battles and manage your crew while exploring a dangerous galaxy. Play alone or with friends, test your ships in online PvP, and let your imagination reach for the stars!

Why similar: Online Co-Op 27.4%, Building 20.6%, Survival 16.5%, Multiplayer 15.4%, Exploration 8.9%

Gatewalkers is a unique mixture of co-op game, survival and RPG. You, as a Gatewalkers, travel across different worlds in order to save your own. Explore procedurally generated worlds, face hostile inhabitants and challenges like extreme weather conditions, toxic atmosphere, lack of water and more.

Why similar: Online Co-Op 17.7%, Isometric 13.7%, Hack and Slash 13%, Action RPG 12.6%, Co-op Campaign 12.3% ★

Defend the last bastion of humanity with your squad of heroes! Exterminate fiendish monsters with magic and brute force by night and re-build your battered city defenses by day in this tactical RPG with rogue-lite mechanics.

Why similar: Tower Defense 32.2%, Base Building 30.8%, Strategy RPG 24.7%, Strategy 9.2%, Singleplayer 3.1%

Humans are long gone. In a world struck by droughts and toxic waste, will your lumberpunk beavers do any better? A sandbox city-building game featuring ingenious animals, vertical architecture, water physics, and terraforming. Contains high amounts of wood.

Why similar: Base Building 35.2%, Sandbox 20.1%, Building 19.9%, Survival 17.8%, Strategy 6.9%

Gatewalkers is a cooperative action RPG game with survival elements, where players travel across different worlds in order to save their own. Explore procedurally generated worlds, face hostile inhabitants, face challenges like extreme weather conditions, toxic atmosphere, lack of water and more.

Why similar: Online Co-Op 18.1%, Isometric 14.4%, Hack and Slash 13.2%, Action RPG 12.8%, Crafting 11.3%

Ascend from your shelter. Ruin everything. Escape the wretched island. ⚔️🔨🎣🌱🌵🍰 Explore. Fight. Level up. Survive. Gather. Craft. Harvest. Hunt. Build. Farm. Solve puzzles. Fish. Cook. Live. Enjoy the bittersweet post-apocalypse.

Why similar: Base Building 33.3%, Survival 23.2%, Crafting 21.5%, Sandbox 13.5%, Exploration 8.5%

Top down, action packed, multiplayer, zombie shooter. Build your base with friends and see how long you can survive the endless horde of zombies. Level up with friends, or alone, how you die is up to you.

Why similar: Base Building 23.6%, Online Co-Op 20.8%, Tower Defense 19.6%, Survival 11.4%, Multiplayer 9.4%

Shape of Dreams delivers fast-paced, dreamlike action in a vivid roguelite world. Dive into ever-changing realms with tight controls, fluid combat, and high-stakes battles. Whether playing solo or with up to three friends, each run is a thrilling test of reflexes and strategy.

Why similar: Hack and Slash 42.8%, Online Co-Op 36%, Multiplayer 21.2%

Command swarms of warriors at an unprecedented scale of warfare in this blend of RTS and base-building. Lead ant colonies against the many fearsome threats of the insect world, while building intricate nests, developing pheromone-based tactics, and evolving to meet growing dangers.

Why similar: Base Building 26%, Economy 16.7%, Sandbox 13.9%, Building 13.7%, Survival 12.4%