Interstellar Rift
Interstellar Rift is an open world Starship Simulator with an emphasis on ship construction and multi-player interaction. Players can explore and conquer the galaxy with their own custom designed and constructed starship. Space is vast, but you don’t have to face it alone, other players will be able to join your crew, and help out, or build their own rival fleet and fight you across the galaxy.
Prepare to make these custom built spaceships your home when exploring the galaxy! Use the ship editor to design a ship to your liking, from small exploratory vessels to large cargo haulers, or even enormous battleships. With the editor you build your ship deck by deck, inside and outside. If you’d rather get going immediately you can always browse the workshop for ships that other players made, or you can upload your own blueprints.
The galaxy can be a dangerous place, even when playing solo. Strange rifts have opened up, unleashing a hostile race of alien creatures called the Skrill. If left unchecked, they will take over solar systems wreaking havoc on your enterprising. You can fight them alone, or call in the help of your friends, and man a ship together. But not all pilots will fight for a good cause, pirates and opposing fleets can come after you and your cargo at any time. Fight them ship versus ship, or hack your way aboard their vessels and bring the fight to them, in close quarters shootouts.
The economy of Interstellar Rift runs on the resources that can be gathered out in the galaxy. Vast asteroid belts circle planets and solar systems, filled with precious ores and minerals. Start up your resource extractors, or send out a wave of mining drones to do the hard labour for you. Visit the stores of LogiCorp and Galactic Trade, or drive a hard bargain with stranded pilots as you delive them fuel. Automate production lines with the ACTR (automated cargo transfer relay), and set up your own store to trade with other players, or any trade drones that might be nearby.
After choosing a faction to ally with, the galaxy is open for you to explore. Use rift generators to open up spatial rifts that transport you to new systems, exploring a system will help you map out the galaxy, and pinpoint the location of systems with special resources you might need. Construct new trade posts for the companies and factions that want to expand their influence, and help them set up secure stations and sectors. Take on missions for U-nits, or find good deals across multiple systems to make a profit from.
Game Discussion
Steam User 7
Best ship editor I've ever had the pleasure to use. I'm not going to claim this beats some other games... you aren't gonna be walking around planets or anything outside your ship or a station here, but designing the ship is just amazing in this game.
It lets you do things like clip light fixtures into some of the equipment, so for example you can end up making a lamp on the side of something with what is normally a standing light fixture, something I could never do in certain other grid based games like Space Engineers. You can easily scale rooms up in size if you want, instead of building walls block by block you set rooms by their size and connect them with doors... this makes it fast and easy to fix if you realize a room was bigger or smaller than needed.
It isn't quite as good at some other aspects, but the space combat and mining and trading are in fact all there and quite functional, if a little mediocre when it comes to combat and mining. But 11/10 on the way they handled designing your ship.
Steam User 5
I really liked this game. I wish the developers were still working on it. It has so much potential to be great indie game. I still jump in a and play once in a blue moon. the ship editor is so cool and their are so many nice builds for ships or bases on steam. This game inspires the creative types to build amazing things. I don't know of any other space game that allows you to build your ship, inside and out, and allows other players to share space in your ship to battle or mine or be the mechanic.
Play the game but understand that it is not polished and far from perfect, but still fun.
Steam User 3
I loved the game when it was out. It was like the original StarBase.
It had a pretty fun blend of go out to space gather loot (Mining/hunting), go "home" then buy/sell your loot with real players on a space platform you or they have built, with a player made automated shop. then Use the money to expand your knowledge to go deeper in space or use the materials to build your ship one block at a time.
It must of seemed not that intriguing to the masses but there's something great about being able to walk around your creation.. Coordinating guns, collectors, and piloting with fellow friends / server-mates.
I was sad to see they didn't have any funding left and shut down.
Steam User 5
This is pretty much the definition of "we have Elite: Dangerous at home."
Yet if it's an Elite: Dangerous knock-off, why does it have such a great, full-feature interior ship-building and design system that allows for individual module placement?
To be honest, it may be worth a purchase just to play around with that. You can design the ship of your dreams...then fly it around in a lifeless galaxy.
Steam User 3
It's alright. Fun game to play COOP with a few friends. Some good ship building and progression. Last update was 2 years ago so be aware of no new content.
Steam User 1
One of the unsung heroes of the space sim genre! Interstellar Rift can be best described as Space Engineers meets Star Citizen with X-box 360 graphics. It's got everything to fit your fancy (mining, combat, quests, exploration, hauling, etc.) plus there are a lot of little things that take the immersion to the next level! You'll notice pretty quickly that there are almost NO popup menus. Any machine you interact with uses a touch screen... that you press the buttons on. There's an in-game wiki, but those terminals are at most stations and both you and the in-game character end up flipping through the directory like you're actually there! Not to mention there's a custom ship editor, so you can do all that from your hand-built vessel... or 6... or even a personalized space station! The options are basically endless!
I love the aesthetic feel of this game so much... it's a shame I haven't found very many people who stream or have let's plays on YT / twitch. Highly recommend this game to anyone!
Steam User 1
Still good,
Was a steep learning curve, but once you get to understand it, it is a good game. controls are a bit ridiculous but apart from that, it can be enjoyable. not sure if any active servers these days, you never know.