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Dive into a world of epic adventure! Create your perfect hero thanks to a uniquely customizable class system. Collect, craft, and customize your gear. Go it alone or group up to challenge dungeons, raids, dynamic open-world content, and your fellow players.

Release DateMar 1, 2011
PriceFree
Steam Rating (Steam Purchases / All)75.1% (mostly positive) / 74.3%
Steam DB Rating (Steam Purchases / All)71.9% / 72.8%
Reviews (Steam Purchases / All)946  Top 15% / 11K  Top 3%
Curators146 reviews  Top 4%
Median Play Time42.8 hours  Top 3%
Followers45.4K  Top 3%
Owners± 2.2M  Top 2%
Copies Sold± 1.6M  Top 2%

Rating and Reviews (Monthly)
  

Chart showing the monthly evolution of RIFT steam rating, positive and negative reviews.

Here you can see RIFT's Steam rating and reviews between February 2011 and December 2023. Steam's rating oscillates between 100% (February 2011) and 74.2% (December 2023).

With 11K reviews Top 3%, RIFT is definitely a major AAA level success. Peaks in the chart suggest that major updates or discounts happened.

Review Languages
 

Donut graph showing review languages for RIFT and the proportion of players they represent.

This donut chart displays the languages of RIFT's reviewers. The most popular language is English (64%), followed by Russian (11%). The player's languages are well diversified, with 27 different languages appearing in the reviews. The game has 3 translations (French, German and English), it could have been more popular if it was translated in a few more languages.

Time Played

Chart displaying RIFT percentiles of time played for positive, negative, and early access reviews.

This chart displays the time players have spent in RIFT depending if the reviewer left a positive or a negative review. Notice how the time in game reaches a stellar 282 hours in the 80th percentile.

The median play time for the negative reviews is 7.1 times less than the median for positive reviews. Some players have left a negative review after playing a significant amount of time (150 hours in the 80th percentile) which could mean that a part of RIFT's fanbase was unhappy about an update and review bombed the game. You could check if there is an explanation in the Players' feedback section.

Players' Feedback

Game's StrengthsGame's Weaknesses
  • Good class and skill system
  • Play with friends mechanics
  • Huge world and content
  • Dynamic world events
  • Multi-classing system
  • Level scaling system
  • Streamlined gameplay
  • Wardrobe collection
  • Questing not a grind
  • Good crafting and professions system
  • Cash shop mentality
  • Pay-to-win items
  • Expensive microtransactions
  • Underdeveloped game
  • Toxic chat
  • Non-PVP not an option
  • Poor game updates
  • Limited player population
  • Outdated graphics and animation
  • Greediness of the studio

It's important to understand that this list of positives and negatives is not an unbiased evaluation of the game. Its purpose is to support developers in understanding what their players want. The game's rating of 75.1% should be taken into account when assessing them.

Please take this list with a grain of salt, as this is an AI generated list based on a small sample of RIFT's review data provided by Steam. You don't always need to solve every issue. What some players hate might be what your fanbase loves.

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