RIFT

What RIFT does

RIFT (legal entity RIFT Games Inc., US-incorporated; operating from London, UK) is an early-stage entertainment technology company founded in 2024 with a 6-person team. The company is building an AI-powered multiplayer narrative engine platform called StoryEngine, which it describes as the world's first proprietary and defensible AI application layer for social interactive storytelling. Built on top of StoryEngine, RIFT has released its first consumer-facing product, TCD (The Chromatic Dilemma), a social interactive story designed to demonstrate the platform's ability to generate living, evolving narratives in which player choices shape outcomes. The technology stack centers on generative AI applied to text-based narrative experiences, enabling stories that are co-created and participated in rather than passively consumed.

RIFT targets two primary audiences: Gen Z and younger end-consumers seeking interactive entertainment (positioned against the passive-consumption default of legacy media), and business-side counterparties including storytellers, game makers, and investors. The company explicitly references Gen Z engagement statistics (70% engaged in social, co-creative media; twice as likely as Boomers to prefer interactive entertainment) as the demand thesis underpinning its platform. Customer segments are framed as a hybrid persona-and-business mix, with primary focus on end-consumers and on creator/developer partners building interactive narrative experiences.

The business model is not publicly disclosed: no pricing, no revenue figure, and no disclosed funding rounds appear in the source material. RIFT's go-to-market is enterprise field sales-style direct engagement, using 'Contact Now' and 'Tell us your story' CTAs and a single shared inbox ([email protected]) to source relationships with storytellers, game makers, and prospective investors. The company is privately held, founder-led, operating, and actively soliciting investment partnerships; no paying customers, logos, or contracts are disclosed.

Name

RIFT

Legal name

RIFT Games Inc.

Website

https://riftgames.com

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

RIFT is an early-stage London-based entertainment technology company building StoryEngine, an AI-powered multiplayer narrative engine, and TCD, a social interactive story product, targeting Gen Z consumers, storytellers, and game makers.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Interactive Entertainment Software

NAICS

Computer Systems Design Services (541512)

SIC

Services-Miscellaneous Amusement & Recreation (7990), Services-Computer Programming Services (7371)

akta.pro primary industry

UGC Game Creation Platforms (Roblox-like, Fortnite Creative, Core) (MPAFAIAA)

akta.pro secondary industries

Game Engine & Creation Platforms (UGC/Modding) (BPAMAKAE), Narrative/Adventure & RPG Game Studios (MPAFAAAL)

Keywords

• Interactive storytelling
• AI narrative engine
• Multiplayer narrative
• Social gaming platform
• AI entertainment software

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Personnel, Marketing or Sales

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels1 record

Core offering

RIFT builds StoryEngine, a proprietary AI-powered multiplayer narrative engine platform that enables creators to build social, interactive storytelling experiences where player choices shape the world. The company also ships TCD (The Changing Demographic), its first social interactive story product built on StoryEngine, demonstrating the platform's capabilities for end users. The platform serves storytellers, game makers, and investors seeking to build AI-driven interactive entertainment.

Product overview

RIFT is building an AI-powered entertainment platform focused on social interactive experiences. The company offers StoryEngine, a proprietary multiplayer narrative engine platform, which serves as the foundational AI application layer for creating living, evolving stories. Built on this platform is TCD (The Changing Demographic), their first social interactive story product. The platform enables stories that are no longer passively consumed but actively lived, shaped, and co-created by participants, leveraging AI to enable dynamic experiences where player choices truly shape the world.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• StoryEngine: Proprietary AI application layer platform and world's first multiplayer narrative engine
• TCD

Products and services

• StoryEngine Proprietary and defensible AI application layer platform that serves as the world's first multiplayer narrative engine, enabling the creation of social interactive storytelling experiences for storytellers, game makers, and creators.
• TCD (The Changing Demographic) The company's first social interactive story product built on the StoryEngine platform, serving as the initial consumer-facing application of the multiplayer narrative technology for Gen Z and younger audiences.

Quantifiable outcome

• Gen Z is twice as likely as Boomers to prefer interactive entertainment
• +1 more outcomes

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

AI capability2 records

Feature2 records

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves1 record

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• Manticore Games (Core): Manticore Games operates Core, a UGC game creation platform — a structurally analogous model to RIFT's StoryEngine + TCD platform-plus-game approach.
• Latitude (AI Dungeon): Latitude's AI Dungeon pioneered AI-generated interactive multiplayer stories, directly competing with RIFT's positioning as a social, co-creative narrative engine.
• Inworld AI: Inworld AI provides AI-driven characters and narrative systems for interactive games and experiences, making it the closest direct peer to RIFT's StoryEngine in the AI multiplayer storytelling category.
• Charisma.ai: Charisma.ai offers an AI-powered storytelling platform for interactive, branching narratives — directly comparable to RIFT's narrative engine value proposition for storytellers and game makers.
• Hidden Door: Hidden Door built AI-driven social roleplay and narrative experiences from existing IP, making it a closely comparable early-stage peer to RIFT's multiplayer narrative engine concept.

Emerging players

• Scenario.gg: Scenario provides AI-generated game assets and content tools for game developers, an adjacent emerging player in the AI-for-game-creation space relevant to RIFT's tooling thesis.
• Talespin: Talespin builds AI-driven immersive narrative simulations for learning and work, an adjacent emerging platform with overlapping AI narrative engine technology applicable to interactive storytelling.

Broad incumbents

• Roblox Corporation: Roblox is the dominant UGC gaming platform with a massive creator economy; RIFT's StoryEngine targets a narrative-focused niche within this broader UGC category and competes for the same Gen Z mindshare.
• Epic Games (Fortnite Creative): Fortnite Creative is the most successful UGC content layer built into a live game, representing the incumbent benchmark for creator-driven interactive experiences that RIFT's StoryEngine aspires to compete with.
• Larian Studios: Larian Studios is an established narrative/RPG game studio (Baldur's Gate 3) whose success validates the demand for deep, choice-driven narrative experiences that RIFT's StoryEngine is built to enable.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/rift-ai

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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