Rift Command

How to play Rift Command

Free sci-fi real-time strategy (RTS) game in your browser. Lead the Ironclad Accord, the Brood Mire or the Lumen Ascendancy: mine Aurium and Flux, build a base, research upgrades, use unit abilities, hold the Rift Beacons and destroy the enemy AI. No download.

Pick one of three factions and face a computer opponent on a rift world. Workers mine orange Aurium crystals and purple Flux (build an extractor on a vent first); spend it on supply buildings, a barracks, a tech building, defences and an army. The tech building researches Weapons and Armour upgrades and your faction's special technology. Every combat faction has abilities: Ironclad troops Overdrive and Striders lock into Siege Mode, Brood Spitters lay Acid Pools and Behemoths Charge, Lumen Sentinels Blink and Monoliths fire a Shield Nova. Units rank up as they score kills, gaining damage and hull. Hold the two Rift Beacons in the middle lanes for extra income and vision. Destroy every enemy building to win; you lose if all of yours fall.

Controls

Left-click / drag

Select a unit or box-select a group

Double-click

Select every unit of that type on screen

Right-click

Move, attack, gather, or set a rally point

A, then click

Attack-move

S / H / M

Stop / hold position / move

Q W E R T Y

Worker: build base, supply, barracks, extractor, tech, defence

Q / W

Building: train its units

D / E / F

Use the selected units' abilities (targeted ones: then click)

E / R / T

Tech building: research Weapons, Armour or your faction upgrade

X

Cancel the last unit, a research or an unfinished building

Ctrl+1–9, 1–9

Set / select a control group (press twice to jump to it)

Arrows / screen edge / wheel

Scroll the map

Space / . / F2

Jump to the last alert / next idle worker / select your whole army

Esc / P

Cancel a command or pause

Touch

Tap to select or command, drag to box-select, two fingers to scroll

Gamepad

Left stick cursor, A select, X command, B cancel, Y army, LB idle worker, RB base, right stick scroll

🎮 Gamepads work too. Remap the buttons in your account settings.