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A spectral, shifting entity that flickers through the frozen mist, the Fogwalker is a haunting predator able to drift between realities and phases of existence. In the mazes of Frostfall, it stalks Riley from the shadows, becoming more aggressive and visible in the Upside Down's corrupted fog.

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Fogwalker

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Riley Thompson is a brave, quick-witted teen and die-hard horror movie fan who explores the haunted corridors of Frostfall, Indiana with her iconic denim jacket, band-pinned backpack, and homemade gadgetry; as the protagonist of Rift Runner, she uses her inventive arsenal and sharp instincts to outsmart supernatural threats and navigate both the everyday world and its perilous Upside Down reflection.

Riley Thompson

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A jagged, semi-transparent shard that flickers with corrupted digital snow and neon-glitch energy, the Glitch Shard crashes through reality, distorting air and leaving pixelated noise and digital decay in its wake—a signal of the Upside Down’s encroaching, unpredictable horrors.

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Glitch Shard

A jury-rigged, hand-crafted projectile unique to Riley Thompson, the Neon-Tipped Bolt is fashioned from scavenged ballpoint pens and glowing neon tech—each bolt pulses with makeshift energy and streaks through the dark, disrupting supernatural foes and briefly illuminating the mist-shrouded world.

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Set in Frostfall, Indiana in 1984, the game transports players into a snow-blanketed, neon-tinged small American town riddled with subtle dread. Classic 1980s suburban sights—arcades, comic shops, and VHS rentals—hide a network of twisted mazes found in locations like sewers, forests, and abandoned high schools. When protagonist Riley Thompson, a fearless and resourceful teenage horror fan equipped with jury-rigged weapons and a makeshift backpack, enters these mazes, she’s thrust into the Upside Down: an eerie mirror world awash with inverted colors, ashen fog, and corrupted pixel landscapes. In this dimension, logic turns inside out, and environmental rules are reversed, amplifying the challenge. Riley faces monstrous foes such as shadow-flickering Fogwalkers, beastly Demobeasts, shifting Static Lurkers, carnivorous Mawflowers, and her spectral Mirror Echoes—each enemy defined by unique behaviors and a disturbing, retro-horror flair. Exploration, quick reflexes, and leveraging the inverted maze mechanics are crucial to survive and uncover Frostfall’s supernatural secrets.

Rift Runner

A small American town sits on the edge of reality in the winter of 1984, frozen in time and shadowed by vanishings nobody dares talk about. Playing as Riley, a gutsy teen with an eye for oddities, players must navigate maze-like structures that twist into an eerie Upside Down—where every rule and comfort is undone. Horrific monsters prowl pixelated streets and haunted classrooms, their behavior and appearance warping in the parallel dimension. Resourcefulness and reflexes are key as Riley adapts to a world where friend becomes foe and every escape leads deeper into danger. The hunt for answers blurs the line between nostalgia and nightmare, daring players to outwit supernatural threats and restore light to a town gripped by darkness.

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Rift Runner

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