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People Can Fly · 2025 · Windows

Steam: 67 % positive of 1,482 reviews, as of Oct 28

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.

24 games that play like Lost Rift and 24 that look like it. Closest by gameplay: Raft, Rust and Deadside.

Player tags

  • Extraction Shooter
  • Open World Survival Craft
  • Survival
  • Crafting
  • Base-Building
  • Character Customization
  • PvP
  • PvE
Map region: Survival & Crafting
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Steam reviews

What players say

Players who like survival-crafting and extraction shooters enjoy it, especially with friends, but forced PvP, matchmaking, server problems and little recent development split opinion.

Many players enjoy building and crafting on their own PvE island, exploring the expedition islands and the gunplay, and several praise the optional PvE expeditions and co-op play. Complaints centre on forced PvP to progress, snipers and one-shot deaths after matchmaking, AI enemies with pinpoint accuracy, and losing gear after dying on expeditions. Some players report server outages, crashes and a lack of updates, and a few mention cheaters and slow building. Recent reviews are too few to show a trend, so this text reflects the older helpful reviews. Players with longer playtimes are more likely to tire of the game.

Praised

  • Base-building and crafting

    Players like building a base on their own island and crafting, with quality-of-life features that respect their time.

    Many players
  • Optional PvE play

    Solo and co-op PvE modes and PvE expeditions let players enjoy the game without facing other players.

    Many players
  • Exploration and atmosphere

    The islands look good, feel mysterious and offer something new to discover on each expedition.

    Some players
  • Solid gunplay

    Shooting feels responsive and satisfying, and the weapon modding fits other extraction shooters.

    Some players

Criticised

  • Forced PvP to progress

    Players say the game pushes them into PvP missions to advance, despite PvP being presented as optional.

    Many players
  • Matchmaking and sniping

    Players report being sniped or killed within minutes of matching, which makes progress feel impossible for newcomers.

    Some players
  • Weak AI and enemy balance

    Enemies take point-blank shotgun hits and hit with pinpoint accuracy, while players complain of slow weapon progression.

    Some players
  • Server problems and dev silence

    Server outages, disconnects and crashes are common, and many reviewers say the developers have been quiet and updates have stopped.

    Some players
Who it suits
Suits players who enjoy survival-crafting and extraction shooters, especially with friends, and who are happy to play PvE on their own island and on expeditions.
Who should skip it
Players who expect a purely PvE survival game, or who are unwilling to deal with sniping, server issues and an early-access game with little recent development.

Short vs. long playtime: Players with under 20 hours mostly recommend the game for its building and exploration, while those with 20 to 200 hours more often complain about forced PvP, enemy balance and the late-game grind.

Summarised by AI from 66 Steam reviews (English, helpful and recent), as of Oct 28, 2026.

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Plays and looks like Lost Rift

These games are close to it by gameplay and by look, so they appear in both lists below.

By gameplay

Plays like Lost Rift

Matched from Steam descriptions and player tags. The tags under each game are the ones both games share.

More matches

  1. Subsistence72 % positive of 12,636Shared: Open World Survival Craft · Survival · Crafting
  2. Longvinter68 % positive of 6,964Shared: Open World Survival Craft · Survival · Crafting
  3. Stranded Deep73 % positive of 43,891Shared: Open World Survival Craft · Survival · Crafting
  4. DeadPoly77 % positive of 5,572Shared: Open World Survival Craft · Survival · Crafting
  5. XERA: Survival64 % positive of 7,948Shared: Open World Survival Craft · Survival · Crafting
  6. Smalland: Survive the Wilds81 % positive of 8,159Shared: Open World Survival Craft · Survival · Crafting
  7. Volcanoids82 % positive of 7,693Shared: Open World Survival Craft · Survival · Crafting
  8. Marathon80 % positive of 45,462
  9. Nomad59 % positive of 4,619Shared: Open World Survival Craft · Survival · Crafting
  10. Defiance76 % positive of 12,614Shared: Survival · FPS · Online Co-Op
  11. Len's Island82 % positive of 5,997Shared: Open World Survival Craft · Survival · Crafting
  12. Lost Skies62 % positive of 2,485Shared: Open World Survival Craft · Crafting · Base-Building

By look

Looks like Lost Rift

Matched from screenshots. Each card shows the screenshot closest to the look of this game.

More matches

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  2. SCUM73 % positive of 99,049
  3. Hurtworld76 % positive of 23,625
  4. Survival: Fountain of Youth84 % positive of 4,131
  5. Volcanoids82 % positive of 7,693
  6. Island Notes81 % positive of 910
  7. Vertigo 295 % positive of 2,590
  8. Grand Emprise: Time Travel Survival69 % positive of 808
  9. SOS27 % positive of 4,715
  10. Into the Radius VR93 % positive of 9,733
  11. GONE Fishing89 % positive of 3,268
  12. Urge90 % positive of 505

At a glance

What games like Lost Rift have in common

  • The tags they share most often with Lost Rift: Survival (21 of 24), Crafting (20) and Open World Survival Craft (18).
  • They came out between 2014 and 2026, 2 of them after Lost Rift (2025).
  • Best rated by Steam players: Raft (92 % positive of 324,997).

How these matches work

Matches come from embeddings of Steam descriptions, player tags and screenshots, computed offline. “Plays like” compares what the games are about and how players tag them; “Looks like” compares their screenshots. The share of positive reviews is based on Steam user reviews.

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