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Action indie game The Riftbreaker launched in 2021 from EXOR Studios, which is also the publisher. On Steam it has 23,927 reviews with 90% positive sentiment, and its initial price is listed at $29.99.
Overview
The Riftbreaker is a 2021 Action game developed by EXOR Studios and published by EXOR Studios. On Steam it has gathered 22,042 player reviews, 90% of them positive, which counts as a very positive reception among indie titles in the Action category. The game is available on windows, and launched at $30. The pairing of developer EXOR Studios with publisher EXOR Studios is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Action projects reach the market. indielist's white-box method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 1.1 million to 2.5 million units, with the full Boxleiter factor breakdown shown on this page rather than a single black-box figure. Within indielist's catalog of indie games mapped to their studios, publishers, and funding, The Riftbreaker can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
22,042
Positive
90%
Steam appid
780310
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.01.1M to 2.5M
units (median: 1.8M)
≈ $18.1M to $42.3M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2021 | +15 |
| price_$30 | +5 |
| positive_90% | +10 |
| final NB | 80 |
Heuristic display range: median × [0.6, 1.4]. Boundary protection: NB ∈ [15, 150].
Methodology & limitations
Sales estimates use an additive Boxleiter-derived heuristic against public Steam review
counts. They are not authoritative sales data, and the fixed display range
is not a statistically validated confidence interval. Actual results may fall outside it,
especially for deeply discounted or bundle-heavy titles. Algorithm version
v1.0. Read the exact method and validation status.
indielist estimates lifetime unit sales for The Riftbreaker at roughly 1.1 million to 2.5 million copies, with a median around 1.8 million, derived from its 22,042 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $30.2M in net revenue after Steam's 30% cut, regional pricing, and refunds. Unlike black-box trackers, the full calculation is shown on this page: a base review-to-sales multiplier is adjusted for release year, launch price, review sentiment, studio size, and genre, and every adjustment is listed so developers, publishers, and investors can audit exactly how the figure was reached. The range itself reflects genuine uncertainty — review-to-sales ratios vary widely between games — so indielist publishes a low, median, and high band rather than a false-precision single number, and treats free-to-play, heavily discounted, and bundle-distributed titles as having wider error margins still.
Price history
50 observed days · window low $8.99Across 50 observed UTC days from 2026-06-10 to 2026-09-06, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $8.99 to $29.99. The tracked-window low was $8.99 on 2026-06-12.
Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.
Where to buy
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Platforms
windows
Genres
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has The Riftbreaker sold?
- indielist estimates The Riftbreaker has sold between 1,058,016 and 2,468,704 units (median 1,763,360), derived from its 22,042 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed The Riftbreaker?
- The Riftbreaker was developed by EXOR Studios and published by EXOR Studios.
- Who published The Riftbreaker?
- The Riftbreaker was published by EXOR Studios, developed by EXOR Studios. See EXOR Studios's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was The Riftbreaker released?
- The Riftbreaker was released in 2021.
- How many reviews does The Riftbreaker have on Steam?
- The Riftbreaker has 22,042 Steam reviews, of which 90% are positive.
- Is The Riftbreaker worth playing?
- Steam players rate The Riftbreaker 90% positive across 22,042 reviews. indielist doesn't score games editorially; it surfaces public review sentiment and a white-box sales estimate so you can judge reception and reach yourself.
Ecosystem
Players looking for games like The Riftbreaker can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Action titles such as Terraria, Rust, Phasmophobia, The Forest, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, EXOR Studios's other releases and EXOR Studios's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where The Riftbreaker sits among a studio's body of work and how its publisher's portfolio performs. Because indielist maps studios, publishers, games, and funding into one connected graph, the same The Riftbreaker page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Action game, developers studying how comparable projects were positioned and what they sold, and investors tracing which teams and labels are active in the space. A machine-readable markdown mirror of this page is published at the same path with a .md suffix for AI assistants, and its review, price, and sales-estimate figures are refreshed on a schedule rather than frozen at launch.
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