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WICKSITECH · Published by WICKSITECH
Content notice: This game may contain content not appropriate for all ages, including: Stylized violence and combat Mild blood effects during battles Thematic elements related to survival, struggle, and conflict There is no graphic gore, no nudity, and no explicit language currently present in the game. Content may evolve during development based on community feedback and narrative additions.
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Last updated 6 Oct 2026
Aethergate: Battle of Artefacts is a session-based Extraction Roguelite. Enter unstable "Fractures," build automated industrial bases, and hunt for ancient Artefacts. Extract before the world collapses. No offline raids.Pure skill.100% Adrenaline.
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Action, Adventure, Indie, RPG, Early Access · 2025 · More £15 - £30 games
Venture into unstable Fractures to build bases and extract Artefacts before the world crumbles. Aethergate: Battle of Artefacts blends action, adventure, and RPG elements in a pure-skill challenge.
About this game
SHORT DESCRIPTION
Aethergate: Battle of Artefacts is a session-based Extraction Roguelite. Enter unstable "Fractures," form specialized squads or drop in as a solo Rogue, farm stat-boosting crops, and hunt for ancient Artefacts. Raid rival bases and extract before the world collapses. No offline raids. Pure skill. 100% Adrenaline.
ABOUT THIS GAME
THE YEAR IS 2050. A failed experiment known as The Aether Surge has shattered reality. The world is now divided into unstable dimensions called Fractures—zones of high reward and lethal danger.
You are an Aetherial, a mercenary tasked with entering these collapsing worlds to secure the only currency that matters: Artefacts.
Aethergate evolves the survival genre by compressing the experience into high-stakes, 1-to-2-hour sessions. Scavenge, farm, build, automate, and extract. What you keep is yours. What you lose is gone forever.
KEY FEATURES
💀 SESSION-BASED EXTRACTION: Forget the 100-hour grind. Every Fracture is a fresh start. Drop in at Level 1, gather resources, and race against the clock. The goal isn't just to survive—it's to seize supernatural Artefacts and extract before the zone destabilizes.
🤝 SQUAD SYNERGY OR SOLO CHAOS: Abandon the "jack-of-all-trades" trope. Squads that divide into highly specialized roles—like Farmers, Builders, Scavengers, and Scouts—will dominate the economy. Prefer to work alone? Drop in as a factionless Rogue Aetherial with no base and no rules, surviving entirely by raiding established facilities.
🥔 HARVEST TO SURVIVE: Character progression inside a match is tied to agriculture. Plant and harvest a massive ecosystem of crops to gain permanent in-match stat buffs. Eat potatoes for Armor or Cauliflower for Magic Regen—but if you die, you lose it all.
🔴 FACTION INFILTRATION: Joining a faction grants your team a base equipped with an exclusive, stat-boosting Faction Berry bush. Want a buff your faction doesn't have? Execute stealth missions across the map to infiltrate rival bases and steal their unique berries—or play as a Rogue and steal from everyone.
🛡️ NO OFFLINE RAIDS: We believe your loot should be lost in combat, not while you sleep. Your account progression in the single-player Hub is permanent and safe. When you log off, your anxiety doesn't have to stay on.
🔫 TACTICAL COMBAT & ARTEFACTS: Engage in visceral FPS combat with limb-damage systems. Secure game-changing Artefacts to unlock supernatural abilities—like teleportation, invisibility, or flight—to outplay rival squads and AI guardians at the final Extraction chokepoint.
Explore Find your way trough out the wasteland and scorched lands of the Aether Surge
Find And Gather Resources - Aethergate world is filled with all types off resources from Wood logs to Aetherium Ore
Build - construction components and placeable items
System Requirements
Will my PC run this? →Minimum
- OS: Microsoft Windows 10
- Processor: Intel® Core™ i7-7500U Processor
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: Nvidia GeForce GTX 650
- Storage: 15 GB available space
Recommended
- OS: Microsoft Windows 10
- Processor: AMD Ryzen 5 3600X
- Memory: 32 GB RAM
- Graphics: Nvidia RTX 3060
- Storage: 15 GB available space
Supported Languages
*languages with full audio support
Latest news
Patch NotesOfficial
ABOA v0.94.8.3 (Client)
-Added 5 more solo POI's around the wasteland map -Now every player starts on white team (as solo survivor) -You can activate any riftstone and change team at any time. Riftstones now take friendly fire (make sure to build around your team's riftstone to protect it from other people). -Added a brief damage indicator for projectile type wand spells -Magic wand's Healing spell now recovers not only health but food, drink and energy too -Magic wand's chaos/ice wall spell does not last forever anymore -Fully reworked Role Selection screen -Playable area/height limits. Added blocking volumes for the Wasteland map. KNOWN BUGS: team window does not update after team change.Read full article on Community Announcements (TheReason)Patch NotesOfficial
ABOA v0.94.8.2 (Client)
-fixed exit menu by adding additional show cursor and UI mode nodes -magic wand boxes are now fixed (wands are still an experimental artefacts) -enabled single player (experimental) -switched back to hardcoded adminsRead full article on Community Announcements (TheReason)Patch NotesOfficial
v0.94.8
- Added Spectator Mode. Players joining after the Fracture Boss has been killed (during the collapse phase) instead of being killed will be allowed to spectate the remaining players. - Added Motion Blur toggle in Graphics Settings. - Added Admins and Main Admins to server config file. Now Dedicated server hosts can select who is admin by adding additional steam IDs to server cfg. - Main admins now require to start the game. If Main Admin does not enable the game start when the server is started - players will not be able to start playing. Main admins can also be added via servercfg.Read full article on Community Announcements (TheReason)Patch NotesOfficial
Ptach v0.94.7
Removed singleplayer map travel for now (will be updating Hub map so there is enough activities there). Adjusted Bow, Crossbow and Legendary Bow arrow trajectory and range effectiveness. Updated Score Saving (kills and death should stack instead of restarting) Reworked Shop and Facility building logic. Instead of shops and facilities requiring coins to build, and resources to operate, now it requires resources to build and coins to operate. This allwos builders to be always busy by building the base and making sure that all remaining players on the team are well geared at all times. May be more stuff, but its hard to keep track of all minor fixes (yes, I am a bit disorganised) We will be amining for multiplayer mode testing, therefore single player mode for now will be removed (we will be adding different maps for single player mode which would ensure cinematic experience instead of MP Fraction Experience. Stay tuned for more!Read full article on Community Announcements (TheReason)AnnouncementsOfficial
WE ARE BACK: The Rebranding, The "Riot", and The Birth of Aethergate
Hello Aetherials (formerly Rifthunters),It has been a long time since our last transmission. Too long. Today, we are breaking the silence to explain exactly what happened, where we are going, and why the game you knew as Riftbound is now evolving into something much bigger. 1. The Elephant in the Room: Why the Silence?For a long time, development was paused. This wasn't because we lost passion—far from it. We ran into a significant legal hurdle.We were hit with a trademark conflict regarding our previous name by Riot Games. As an indie studio, we faced a choice: spend our limited resources fighting a legal battle we couldn't afford, or take the hit, regroup, and evolve. We chose to evolve. We are proud to announce that Riftbound: Legacy of The Surge is officially dead. Welcome to Aethergate: Battle of Artefacts. 2. The New Direction: Extraction RogueliteWe didn't just change the name; we overhauled the core loop. We looked at what was fun (the looting, the risk) and leaned into it.The Hub (Sandbox): Your safe haven. Build, craft, and hoard your treasures here. Your base in the Hub is persistent and yours to design.The Fracture (Multiplayer): This is the new "Rift." When you enter a Fracture (Dedicated Server), you enter naked. Level 1. Zero items.The Goal: Scavenge weapons, build facilities on the fly, defeat the Fractured King, and extract with an Artefact (like the Necklace or the Cowboy Hat).The Stakes: If you extract, you keep the loot in your Hub. If you die, you lose everything you brought in. 3. Price Adjustment & Development SupportYou will notice the price has increased from $10 to $19.99.We want to be transparent about this. Development is expensive, and for a long time, we funded this out of our own pockets. The legal restructuring and the server costs took a toll. We are committed to finishing Aethergate regardless of sales, but your financial support allows us to work faster, hire help, and keep the dedicated servers running. If you bought the game at t...Read full article on Community Announcements (TheReason)
