Echo of the Rift
A crashed pilot, a polar island and a glowing rift in the ice — a 3D story game in your browser
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Open-world 3D story game · free, no install, no sign-up · MIT
About the game
Your plane, the “Kestrel”, goes down on a nameless polar island under the northern lights. The station AI IRIS wakes you in the wreck. An old hermit, Orm, has lived here alone for eleven years, next to a rift in the ice that sings.
More
The island is 900 × 900 m: the crash site, a polar station, a frozen lake, ruins, forest, sea ice and the Rift. The snow remembers every step, the night looks like night, and it all starts straight in the browser — no install.
Features
- An open island, 900 × 900 m: crash site, station, lake, ruins, forest, sea ice, the Rift
- 5 chapters and 2 endings: dialogue with choices, 8 echo recordings, 24 crystal shards
- A snow-skimmer vehicle: call it with T
- Snow that remembers: every boot, hoof and paw leaves its own print
- The pilot leans on rocks and walls, braces on slopes and vaults low obstacles
2 more
- Wildlife: stags and other animals; a night with aurora, moon shadows, fog and falling snow
- A little combat: crystal shardlings and a golem in the Rift
Screenshots
Controls
- W A S DShiftSpaceCmove · run · jump · roll
- ELMBQGinteract · cutter · scan · wave
- Tcall the skimmer
- MJEscmap · journal · pause
- Ytalk to Orm when near him (without the AI server: prepared replies)
At a glance
- Platform
- desktop browser with WebGL 2
- Quality
- adapts to the machine; on Retina screens the picture is rendered at 1× and scaled
- Engine
- no engine and no build: three.js, Rapier physics
- Code
- open source, MIT
FAQ
Do I need to install it?
No. A desktop browser with WebGL 2 is enough.
What if it runs slowly?
The game picks a quality level for your machine; weaker computers get a lighter mode.
Is it connected to Northern Rift?
Yes: Northern Rift is an arcade in the same world — the same island seen from the air.