RIG Riot is a roguelike third-person mech-action shooter. You fight increasingly difficult enemies while completing objectives, level up, and choose the weapons and Volatile Mods that let you return from a raid alive. The store page advertises thousands of permanent parts, with the goal of building a RIG unlike anyone else’s.

Steam 250 week chart: #13, up 24 places, score 7.63 from 153 reviews, released 14 September 2026. Chart position via Steam 250 week top 50.

Key features

Permanent parts inside a roguelike loop

Most roguelikes reset your build every run, which keeps runs fair but makes the hundredth hour feel like the first. Permanent parts mean the mech you take into a raid is a record of everything you have survived, so the loop is extraction-shaped: the risk is losing progress, not losing a session.

Volatile Mods as a risk dial

Naming a mod category Volatile signals that the strong options carry a cost. That is the mechanism that keeps a parts-heavy game from collapsing into one optimal loadout, because the best part is only the best part if you can survive its drawback.

Mech weight as a difficulty setting

In a third-person shooter, the chassis is the movement system. Choosing parts is therefore choosing how the game controls, not just how much damage it does — which is why mech builders reward experimentation more than gun-based roguelikes do.

The honest caveat

English is the only supported language. Steam’s content descriptors note combat between non-human mechanical vehicles implied to contain human pilots, plus textual descriptions of fantasy drug use. At 153 reviews the score is still moving, and a 24-place climb in a week is momentum rather than a settled verdict.

Where to find it

RIG Riot is on Steam at $17.99, a 10% discount at the time of writing, from solo developer Sage Boatman. Steam store page.