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Star Rift Saga

96% positive of 33 Steam reviews

Released: 2025
Steam Deck: Not tested
Platforms: Steam

Made by Studio Vela LLC.

About the game

Embark on a Metroidvanian journey across a mysterious alien world where every ability unlocks new secrets and every corner hides danger or discovery. Fight enemies and bosses across multiple biomes, collect items and skills on your quest, and upgrade yourself and even the outpost itself.

Tagged by players

Metroidvania
Gun Customization
Inventory Management
Platformer
Action RPG
2D Platformer
Pixel Graphics
Exploration
Modern
Sci-fi
PvE
Space

What players say

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76%13 reviewsDeck

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Positive

What players say

Recommended
I am really enjoying this metroidvania, it has a large world to explore, lots of secrets and side challenges / quests. It overall looks very polished, animations and movement feel fluid. Besides skills, weapons and abilities you get a unique system where you need to combine gems in a sort of inventory grid to stack your attribute upgrades. Makes you think what to prioritise. My only gripe is that the characters are…
1.7 h played when written, mostly on Steam Deck. 0 found it helpful.
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Recommended
Surely it leaves to be desired on the graphical side, but it is a good metroidvania!
13 h played when written. 0 found it helpful.
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Not recommended
I tried a handful of games that all felt and looked very similar with Princess Pomu, Witchroid Vania, Star Rift Saga and Bloom Thrice. Despite them all playing competently enough, I found them all to be kind of boring and artistically unappealing. Star Rift Saga was perhaps the game of all of these that I found most palatable and spent the longest trying out. It has an interesting charm system. You often acquire…
1.4 h played when written. 11 found it helpful.
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