RiftBleed: two Earths, one wound

Today we’re pulling back the curtain on RiftBleed, the second universe from Rad Games — and the darker sibling to Puppies vs. Kittens.

The premise fits in a breath. There are two Earths. On one, magic won. On the other, technology won. Both kept the human cultures we know, grown for centuries down two different sets of rules — and now they are bleeding into each other. Things turn up where they don’t belong. Figures appear across tears that shouldn’t be there. Whole places go wrong.

Five games, five doors

RiftBleed isn’t one game. It’s five, each in a proven genre and a real corner of the world, and each built to stand completely on its own:

• Hollowshot — a first-person movement shooter in the backwoods and abandoned ordnance works of the American interior.
• Deepfrost — survival and base-building on a cold Norse frontier, solo or co-op.
• Killwall — turn-based tactics: hold one walled haven in medieval Europe, one night at a time.
• Silent Echo — survival horror in a sealed, snowbound mountain monastery in Japan.
• Broken Glass — a metroidvania through a vast, decayed gothic kingdom in Slavic Europe.

You can start with any of them. Nothing requires homework; the shared universe is a bonus for anyone who notices it.

Two faces of everything

Every power, weapon, creature and place in RiftBleed has a magic face and a tech face. They play identically — same inputs, same numbers — and differ only in look and one world-rule. Pick a face and play that world. Neither is stronger, by design.

Every game also carries the same signature movement: the Portal-Rush. Look at a lit anchor, charge, slow time to aim, and rush — then chain into the next one. In Hollowshot it’s the whole game. Elsewhere it’s an echo you’ll feel in your hands.

What we won’t tell you

Some questions in RiftBleed are meant to stay open. Something old and unbreakable runs under both worlds, and where it surfaces, reality drifts. The games will show you its edges. They won’t explain it. We think a good mystery is worth protecting.

Hollowshot is first through the door. All five are in development for PC, Steam first, and we’ll share more as each one gets closer.