Try the new demo and trailer for Rift Riff, a fast and "strategically tight" tower defense game

If you love tower defense games, you're going to want to check out the new demo and trailer for the upcoming Rift Riff. A "strategically tight" game, the developer says.

With quite minimalist design, and pretty fast gameplay, this one is really easy to get into. Quite a fast-moving game, one that will end up taking your full attention as you run around the map building various towers. It was previously shown off in the Godot Engine showreel from 2024.

More about it: "Rift Riff puts you in the shoes of a lone rifter navigating the depths of spacetime in search of treasure. Across a shifting cycle of lush and barren worlds, you summon towers, harvest energy, and battle hostile inhabitants – all to expand your arsenal and plunge even deeper into the unknown."

A new trailer is live too below:

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The demo should give you just over an hour gameplay, showing off the first 8 worlds. The full game has much more:

• 14 worlds with 2 or more scenarios each.
• 15 tower types with 8 overpowered upgrades.
• 24 monster types with varying behaviors.
• 28 challenges with increasing difficulty.
• All the good Steam stuff: achievements, stats, controller support, cloud saves.

I've tried out the demo, which has a Native Linux version, and came away really impressed with it. Some lovely visual design and fantastic audio to go along with it. Definitely keen to see a whole lot more from this one. The action is great when you get further in and have a few extra tower types too.