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Stranded across an island chain, gather and build on a PvE island, then risk PvPvE expeditions to bring back loot.
Released 25 Sep 2025
Build an Island Base
Risk Loot Expeditions
Craft Survival Gear
Lost Rift is a first person survival adventure shooter that blends cooperative base building with multiplayer PvE or PvP extraction expeditions. Journey solo or in teams of up to 5 players across a vast archipelago, craft gear, build bases, defeat raiders, and become legendary.
Developed by People Can Fly · Published by People Can Fly
After washing ashore at Pioneers’ Landing, you play a stranded survivor exploring an archipelago, meeting and recruiting other survivors, and following quests that investigate your arrival.
On your own PvE island, gather resources, deal with survival needs, craft equipment, and build a modular base with storage and crafting stations. Explore the island and prepare your gear before venturing farther.
Expeditions take you to shared islands to search for loot and resources while facing hostile NPCs and potentially other players. Extract with your finds to support quests and crafting progression; dying can mean losing the gear you brought. Play solo or in groups of up to five.
Reviews are divided over the blend of survival crafting and extraction shooting. Players who enjoy it often value having a home island for building and preparation, followed by tense loot runs where they choose when to avoid or confront other players. Some also praise the island atmosphere and the option to play solo or cooperatively. Common frustrations include needing expeditions for progression, punishing losses on death, difficult NPC encounters, and technical problems.
Lost Rift is a high-stakes First-Person Survival Adventure Shooter that brings together extensive base building, quests, open-world survival crafting, and intense extraction expeditions that you can play in PvPvE or cooperative PVE modes. Created for up to 5 players or solo play, explore a rich, immersive, and mysterious world where you transform from a modern survivor into a legend.
You wash up on a beach at Pioneers’ Landing, part of a beautiful and mysterious archipelago of islands. With several unique survivors to recruit, your quests will uncover the real reason behind your arrival. On your instanced open-world PvE island, you will gather resources, build a camp, craft equipment, explore the area, and prepare for intense multiplayer expeditions to extract needed loot.
Use your creativity to build a safe base camp and shelter anywhere on your personal PvE island. Use materials to make crafting benches, cooking stations, and build a unique modular stronghold. Survival isn’t just about taking on enemies, it’s about mastering your surroundings and making a home base that fits your style.
Dive into intense multiplayer PvPvE expedition shootouts, with a PvP-focus, on other unstable islands to extract the most valuable resources. Fight against other players to risk it all for sought-after loot, testing your might, shooting skills, and strategic route planning to emerge victorious before time runs out.
Become a legendary co-op or solo survivalist while hurricanes, fires, and lightning strikes threaten everything. Dense fog shrouds the landscape in an eerie silence. Bravery is a necessity as you continue your adventure and navigate the challenging dynamic environment.
Lost Rift uses dedicated, geo-located servers to provide a smooth and consistent experience across PvE and PvPvE.
| Platforms | Windows |
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| Achievements | 43 |
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| Controller support | PlayStation, Xbox |
| Controller required | No |
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| AI disclosure | We use Adobe® Photoshop® software and Adobe® Generative AI image-editing software as part of our 2D icon generation pipeline.We use machine translation as the first step of our Localization in order to bring the game to as many players as possible in their native language |
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| Website | Official website |
