Underplayed Gems

Drill Rift (2025)

Drill Rift cover
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.

Trailer

Screenshots

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