Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart comes to PC on Steam in July

Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart, Insomniac Games’ 2021 third-person shooter/platformer for PlayStation 5, will launch for Windows PC via Steam in July.

This will be the first appearance of the franchise on a platform other than PlayStation, (excluding some mobile versions). It’s also another Sony Interactive Entertainment first-party release on PC, continuing a push that began in 2020 with Horizon Zero Dawn.

Nixxes Software will be handling the PC version. Studio emphasized in its PlayStation Blog posting that Ratchet & ClankRift Away Supports ultra-wide screen setups including 32:9 and 48:9 aspect ratios.

Over the years, the Ratchet & Clank series has been as widely praised for its gameplay and story as its animated visuals, so bringing it to PC, with all of the performance that platform’s constituency expects, is no small task.

Nixxes said Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart will support “unlocked framerates and […] the latest performance enhancing upscaling technologies.” There will also be ray-tracing served.

Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart First, launched in June 2021 on PlayStation 5, the series’ debut on that console and first game since 2016’s Ratchet & Clank PlayStation 4

Insomniac Games was acquired by Sony Interactive Entertainment in 2019. Taken Apart The Game Awards, DICE Awards and Game Developers Choice Awards all nominated the game for multiple awards. The title sold over a million units worldwide. This was the most of any in the series. The game was ranked No. 20 on Polygon’s list of the 50 best games of 2021.