Riftsworn

About the game

It is the 1920s. Rifts are tearing open across the world, and something older than the stars is waking. Seismographs record a rhythm like chewing. Sleepers on every coast hum the same three notes. A new star appeared in October, and it has been growing brighter.

Riftsworn is a cooperative strategy game of cosmic horror for 1–6 players. Investigators travel the world by rail and steamship, chase clues through cities and wild places, step through rifts into other worlds, and solve the mysteries before the doom track runs out. The team wins or loses together.

Short description

It is the 1920s. Rifts are tearing open across the world and something older than the stars is waking. Lead up to six investigators across a world on the brink: gather clues, fight horrors and seal the rifts before an Ancient One wakes. Cooperative cosmic horror, alone or with friends.

Features

• Play together, your way. Pass the mouse around one PC, play over LAN or online with a room code, or fill any seat with a bot.
• Four Ancient Ones. Ysh'tarra, the Drowned Choir. Ommuroth, Who Gnaws Beneath. Sathquorra, the Unfolding Eye. Vorr-Ahaz, the Burning Sky. Each has its own mysteries, servants and way of ending the world.
• Fifteen investigators. Nurses, mercenaries, archivists, pilots and priests, each with their own action, passive ability and starting gear.
• A world on the brink. Over fifty locations on a 1920s map, from Cairo to the Antarctic.
• Step through the rifts into other worlds, where the rules of ours no longer apply.
• The mythos fights back. 54 mythos cards bring events, lingering curses and rumours that make every round a little worse.
• Gear up with 42 assets, 14 spells and 12 artifacts, against 25 kinds of monster.
• Grow your investigators with branching skill trees, cosmetic rewards and the Veil, a ladder of harder challenges for veterans.
• A soundtrack that listens, shifting with the danger from calm travel to dread as doom draws near.

Pronunciation

RIFT-sworn, as in "sworn to the rifts". Always one word.