5 Games Like The Riftbreaker to Keep the Guns Fed

Lumencraft puts a reactor at the center of your underground ambitions. Drill through rock, gather resources and buy weapons, tools and turrets. That richer deposit can wait. Probably. The approaching wave has a less flexible schedule.

Drilling changes the cave itself, opening routes as you work. Each haul creates a choice between better personal equipment and stronger reactor defenses. Mining, building and fighting all compete for your time.

Independent movement and aim let you fight alongside the turrets wherever the line needs help. It captures the pleasure of rescuing a construction project with your own weapon.

The 27-mission campaign gives those outings a lasting purpose: Lumen brought home improves skills and technology at the hub. Random maps and custom scenarios offer other structures. Expect a mission-based underground struggle with less sprawling industry.

The verdict

For personally keeping the reactor alive.

Mindustry makes a turret the final link in a much bigger argument. Conveyors deliver ammunition, production blocks process materials, and power or liquids support the equipment you picked. More guns will not fix an empty feed line.

Build another firing position, or improve the supply behind the current one? Shields and regeneration projectors offer other investments. Coolant boosts supported equipment. An alien invasion becomes an unusually aggressive audit of your plumbing.

Unit assembly lines turn resources into armies for attacking enemy bases. The Serpulo and Erekir campaigns give conquest and research room to develop, while co-op lets friends divide engineering and command work.

Flying enemies and fires complicate any supposedly safe production area. Expect to learn dense material, liquid and power routing. The reward is seeing an entire system hold together under pressure, with less emphasis on one heavily armed hero.

The verdict

Inspect the supply line before buying another gun.

Factorio makes the factory the main event. Drills feed furnaces, assemblers make components, and belts, trains and logistic robots move the results. Research unlocks possibilities; building enough machinery to produce them is your job.

Defenses belong inside that plan. Gun turrets need ammunition, delivered by inserters; laser turrets need electricity. Changing weapons moves the demand elsewhere in the factory. A shiny new defensive row can expose a very old power problem.

On Nauvis, pollution reaching enemy nests can provoke attacks. Expansion brings pressure, so walls and weapons need to grow alongside production. Blueprints and construction robots eventually let you repeat good designs without rebuilding every solution by hand.

Personal combat exists, but diagnosing bottlenecks becomes a major part of the evening. Try the free demo. The base game supplies the one-planet factory; the separate Space Age expansion takes that project to other worlds.

The verdict

For factory layouts you keep improving in your head.

Outpost: Infinity Siege lets you assemble a mobile fortress from structural pieces, support equipment and weapons. Move and rotate groups in the editor, then take the result on deployment. Your rifle shares the battle with your engineering.

Ammunition conveyors and autoloaders make preparation practical. Fill loaders from the warehouse before a tour to keep that impressive arsenal useful. Loot and new components give the next redesign a purpose.

The configurable XEN firearm handles your first-person contribution. Command Mode manages the wider defense, and researched turret overloads trade power for a temporary boost. Recovery Day tests the preparation while you secure the haul.

Build the persistent layout at base between deployments; temporary facilities can go up in the field. Failed recovery can cost resources, equipment and operatives. Insurance and rescue beacons protect particular losses, so understand the safeguards before risking a valuable tour.

The verdict

For a first-person seat at your own siege.

Zombie Defence starts with a compact question: what should this Scrap become? Ammunition, processed parts, a permanent weapon or a station upgrade all compete. Fixed shelter stations and worker assignments keep production focused around your next outing.

Industry research gives that economy a direction. Machine shop connects research to crafting; later doctrine pairs favor cheaper equipment or faster Scrap processing. Each pair is mutually exclusive within a save. Required inputs running out or output storage filling stops production.

Then you take the investment outside. Desktop play uses independent movement and cursor aim, with active firing and reloads; touch controls assist firing. Separate Scrap expeditions retain collected Scrap even after defeat, up to storage capacity.

The shelter supports separate fights, without a freely designed turret perimeter to defend. This lasting home improves your equipment through production decisions. Then you get to put that equipment to work.

The verdict

Production planning with room for the next fight.