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Following a “Top 50 Most Played” placement during Steam Next Fest, RIFTSTORM teases new “Extraction-Lite” focus and Early Access launch.

Singapore, Singapore - July 8, 2026 - Confiction Labs has released a new teaser trailer for RIFTSTORM, the studio’s upcoming co-op PvE action game set in the Mythic Protocol universe. The teaser, titled “The Unknown Is Coming,” arrives as the team prepares for RIFTSTORM’s planned Steam Early Access launch on August 11, 2026.

 
RIFTSTORM drew strong player interest during Steam Next Fest June 2025, placing in the Top 50 Most Played games by the end of the event.

 
For Confiction Labs, that response helped validate a direction the team has been refining over multiple playtests: a co-op PvE experience built around an escalating power fantasy that combines unique characters, powers, and guns.

 
In RIFTSTORM, players control Weavers, elite operatives of the Mythic Protocol deployed to investigate containment breaches and riftfall events, fight Mythic threats, recover weapons and resources, and extract before the mission goes awry. The game combines fast co-op combat, powerful weapons, in-mission Lythogram power-ups, and their unique “extraction-lite” risk-versus-reward systems built around a sustained power fantasy rather than extreme punishment.

 
On the game’s “extraction-lite” focus, Confiction Labs CCO, Igor Tanzil has this say: “We spent the last year exploring what we see as very real appetite for a PvE and co-op focused extraction experience. Extraction games create incredible tension, but so much of the genre has become associated with hardcore punishment and PvP pressure.”

 
“With RIFTSTORM, we wanted to keep the part that feels exciting while reducing the friction of loss. Our core philosophy of empowerment over punishment meant that our “extraction-lite” features are designed to give RIFTSTORM players more ways explore our combat systems.”

 
At the start of Early Access, RIFTSTORM is planned to launch with five playable Weavers, online three-player co-op, an onboarding campaign, curated early Threat missions, around 30 weapons, several dozen Lythogram power-ups, and early versions of its progression and Periapt Augment systems.

 
RIFTSTORM is planned to launch into Steam Early Access on August 11, 2026.

 
Watch the teaser trailer: https://youtu.be/PG4PWWIhdzE
About RIFTSTORM
RIFTSTORM is a co-op PvE action game set in the Mythic Protocol universe. Players deploy as Weavers, elite operatives trained to fight supernatural Mythic threats, adapt their builds through weapons and in-mission Lythogram power-ups, and extract from dangerous operations before the situation spirals out of control.

 
About Confiction Labs
Confiction Labs is an entertainment studio building RIFTSTORM and the larger Mythic Protocol universe. The studio's current focus is developing RIFTSTORM as a strong co-op PvE game first, while expanding Mythic Protocol through community-shaped events, lore, and future entertainment content.

 
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