A teleporter is a strange chunk of technology.  There's no two ways around the fact that the Star Trek-style teleporter murders its subjects on usage before copying them elsewhere, no matter how they try to handwave the consequences away.  A much better type of instant transportation is the warp gate, which holds open a portal between one area and another.  Walking through is no more disruptive than stepping through a door, but that still doesn't change the need for someone on the other end to set up the necessary tech to make the connection.  In The Riftbreaker it's your job to build a gate that connects back to Earth while stranded on a planet on the other side of the galaxy, armed only with your wits, a can-do attitude, and a massively powerful exo-suit capable of withstanding the harshest environments.  So really, it could be worse.

The Riftbreaker is a fusion of multiple genres in a single package, combining base-building with the tower defense that frequently comes with it, action, exploration, resource-harvesting and crafting, and making overwhelming swarms of massively displeased alien fauna explode into goo.  It's also incredibly pretty, with fantastically detailed environments covered with plants and glowing rocks, and alive with critters that, unlikely as it may seem, aren't all trying to kill you.  Sure, they'd be justified seeing as Captain Ashley Nowak and her exo-suit Mr Riggs are a walking ecological disaster, but creating the factory that powers a gate capable of bridging interstellar distance takes a lot of power and if that means decimating a forest or two, well, it's a big planet.

Today's announcement for The Riftbreaker is that its fall release window is going to come with Game Pass access on day of launch.  The game is coming to most platforms- Xbox Series X/S, Playstation 5, PC by way of the Steam/Epic/Microsoft storefronts, and eventually PS4 and Xbox One.  The Game Pass announcement also comes with an excellent overview video, and while it's Xbox-branded just about everything in there applies to all versions.  If you'd rather play than watch there's a demo available on Steam featuring an introductory chapter and showing off the super-fancy ray-traced lighting effects, but play, watch a video, or both, The Riftbreaker is definitely one to keep an eye on.