Drill Rift (2025)

- Developer
- Steam Veil Games
- Platforms
- Windows
- Genres
- Strategy
- Rating
- 3.8 of 5, 24 player ratings
- Typical playtime
- about 2.0 hours
- Where to get it
- Steam
How it feels
You manage a small, vulnerable crew in an alien cave, constantly balancing scarce supplies against the pressure to extract resources before time runs out.
punishingstrategicresource managementtenseundergroundsurvivaltacticalatmospheric
What players say
Players enjoy the core loop of balancing resources and pushing deeper, but many feel the full game adds too little beyond the demo for its price. Opinions split on difficulty: some find it unforgiving but fair, others say the challenge disappears around 10000m. Multiple reviews mention UI quirks, a research tree that is partly inaccessible, and run-ending bugs.
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