Risk of Rain 2

amazing game. really cool graphics, immersive soundtrack. loading this up with the boys is a great ol time

Good game. Easy to just pick up and play, but also extremely difficult as you get going. Perfect balance of both

You know, I practically grew up on the prequel to this game, and was overjoyed when I found Risk of Rain 2. While the current state of it does make me sad, I do have faith that it will bounce back.

Great lil arcade game with some depth to the characters and builds!

Risk of Rain has a pretty high learning curve. Your first few attempts will be brutally short (even on drizzle). Eventually, though, you'll be able to beat the game pretty easily. Each run then becomes a challenge of trying to beat the game while getting as many unlockables as possible. Luckily, they are (almost) always fun to unlock.

I have an absolute abusive relationship with this game:

(Depending on the run…) Either I absolutely adore this game, or I hate it with my entire soul!

10/10

(As of writing this review, I hope the Seekers of the Storm DLC continues to improve. I don't want people to feel discouraged to try this game because of the negative reviews the DLC received. You can thank Gearbox for that…)

its by the far the best shooter idle game i have ever played thank you so much for making this wonderful nonstop adventure

Okay yeah the gameplay is good and all but HOOOOOOLLLYYYY HELL THIS IS THE SINGLE BEST SOUNDTRACK I HAVE EVER LISTENED TO BY FAR

TL;DR
The Game is Good.

Unlocking all the items and alternate abilities really changes the game despite it only having 1 boss and a handful of realms to explore (in the base game) that have just a few map variations to keep things interesting.

Skill ceiling can go to the moon depending on the way you choose to play the game; further compounding the variety and thus, replay-ability of the game.

One more thing I need you to know before you buy it, you lost the game.

all fun and games until 13 big brolic elites turn you into red mist

Playing this game in early access was delightful, and Survivors of the void added so much. Then gearbox bought it and seekers of the void was incredibly bad, plus it was released alongside an update that broke the game... they have since unbroken the game, but the DLC is still so poor compared to the content Hopoo was putting out. The best way to play the game IMO would be to install the first early access release version, slowly update to each sequential version as you unlock everything from the betas (even starting new profiles each time new features get released), then download Survivors of the Void, then just don't download anything gearbox touched. They should never have messed with the masterpiece this game used to be.

I absolutely hate this game, but it's also probably my favorite game. I have 100+ more hours on Xbox as of writing this review, but I play with friends on console. Decided to purchase ROR2 on Steam as well so I could 100% the game on my own without any assistance. Going well so far (50% achievements done, a lot of them left are trials). Overall, buy the game if you want a challenge. It's a lot of fun, and both DLC make it better (esp. Void).

Risk of Rain 2 takes the roguelite genre to a whole new level, combining the mechanics of Risk of Rain 1 with a 3D environment. The freedom to explore open and big maps while maintaining the progression loop of the original creates a one-of-a-kind experience that stands out in the whole rougelite genre. The transition to 3D elevates the gameplay, making every run feel dynamic and immersive.

What makes Risk of Rain 2 truly special is its hidden storytelling. Instead of relying on direct dialogue, the game weaves its narrative through environmental details, lore logs, and the natural progression of events. Each character’s experience feels unique, with endings that reflect their perspective, adding a personal touch to every run.

The soundtrack is another standout feature. some may say it's trash but in my opinion, the mix of atmospheric and intense tracks perfectly complements the gameplay, elevating both the quiet exploration moments and the chaotic, large-scale battles. It’s not just background music—it’s an essential part of what makes Risk of Rain 2 so engaging and immersive. you can never forget stage 5 music, especially considering the fact that this track alone is used by many video essayists even if the video doesn't have anything to do with Risk of Rain 2.

Replayability is where the game truly shines. The endless variety of builds, characters, and artifacts ensures that no two runs are the same. Artifacts in particular are a game-changer, allowing you to tweak core mechanics and create wildly different experiences. It’s a testament to how Risk of Rain 2 keeps things fresh even after countless hours.

However, the multiplayer experience has its flaws. When a player dies mid-run, they’re forced to spectate while enemies grow stronger, leaving them at a severe disadvantage in the next stage. This can make co-op runs frustrating, especially since it punishes the entire team’s balance. Mods like those that allow reviving teammates can greatly improve the experience, and I highly recommend them. While the DLC introduces a character and item that address this issue, tying these fixes to paid content limits accessibility. It’s a step in the right direction, but an inclusive solution would have been better.

Even with these drawbacks, Risk of Rain 2 is a masterpiece. It’s endlessly replayable, innovative, and remains one of the best roguelites in it's genre. The gameplay, storytelling, and unforgettable soundtrack come together to create an experience like no other. if you’re a fan of this genre, this is a must-play.

This game is marred by terrible online multiplayer lag. According to most reviewers, the game has been far worse after the DLC expansion was released by new IP owner, Gearbox.

The shameful bit is that Gearbox is willing to spend money on developing additional stuff to peddle for this game, but can't be bothered to fix the current issues plaguing it.

I have a sibling that lives in NC. I live in MO. On average our games are about 50 to 60 ms. This is well within acceptable limits. This game after a period of time will jump from 140 ms to as high as 15000 ms before you are unceremoniously booted from the server.

From what I've learned, the server is peer to peer based. Gearbox is too lazy to update the steam servers. Apparently, they've admitted they were unaware they were responsible for keeping up with them in the course of continued development for this game.

Dedicated servers are not possible using the most current build of the game, since steams servers haven't been updated since 2022, the game will throw a malformed request message. Its gotten to the point where the community has had to patch this game themselves in order to restore a semblance of online play-ability.

Sad bit, the game itself is fun and well made. The only problem being its key intent being an online co-op is completely ruined by uncontrollable and unfix-able lag. Gearbox NEEDS to own up and fix this, or risk getting review bombed like other terrible developers that disregard their communities requests.

Bottom line, boycott this game for now. Gearbox needs to have their bad doggy noses rubbed in their own excrement to learn.

Having played around 300 hours of the game (100 on a previous account) without SOTV and another 140 hours with SOTV and 60 hours with the new expansion's content, I have to say that I feel bad for the people that are currently just getting into the game. The new update didn't just add stuff, it messed with the old content in ways that just make the game feel buggier in general. The base survivors have oddities in their moveset that didn't exist before the update like commando's suppressive fire special not animation cancelling his primary properly requiring you to stop using the primary for a moment before you can use the special (originally he could cancel his primary with every ability no questions asked). Engineer's mines never stop beeping because somehow their animation got broken along the way (HOW?). You can add to this that the teleporter's code must have been messed with at some point by the fact that it is now spawning in positions that were completely impossible before...like with a newt altar directly on the teleporter pad or partially phasing into a solid wall. The enemies that spawn from void seeds also have the chance of spawning under the map's geometry making them impossible to kill except through the glowing meteorite. The voidlings after you kill void enemies also will sometimes jump from the body they just inhabited straight to the center of the earth because somehow that basic bit of code keeping them above ground was tampered with. There are just a lot of small things that make the game feel a lot buggier than it used to, which is a damn shame because I loved this game and hate to see this happening along with new players coming in who don't understand just how much weirdness is happening because they've never seen the game in prime form. I hope the new team can pull it around, but, for now, I think I'm just done with watching one of my favorite games slowly falling apart at the seams.

Simply one of the best games I've ever played in my entire life. The OST is probably in my top 5 soundtracks ever it's not even an exaggeration, just buy it already.

When you play this game, you are at risk
At the risk of spending a lot of time enjoying a really good game


Not much to be said, the devs did really well with this one

One of the best games I've played in my life. Immersive or a passive game, depending on how you want to play it. Even after the 100th replay it remains to be fun. 10/10 would recommend

Fast, addicting, easy to get into and gets out of control quickly. What more do you want from a roguelike?

Hey Devs,

fix your game. Make any of the multiplayer lobbies work. Stop with the constant crashing when I try to go to the main menu. Make it so that when people get into a lobby, they don't get stuck in the lobby while else goes off to play.

You have completely abandoned this game to the point where you only get to play if you're lucky. I cannot recommend this game to anyone in this state. An absolute disaster.

Can't handle multi-player. My friend and I would play and it'd crash way too often. At first I thought it was an issue on our end, but I see other people having similar problems from months ago, and it's upsetting to see it still be an issue now.

My future wife says
-co op one we did, 2d version where I kept falling a regular version where he played as broom man and tanks with tank mod go through teleporters, difficulty increases until the game laughs.
As you can see 10/10 experience (the edges of the screen in risk of rain returns are allegedly stressful) and mods are very fun I trust wife's opinion you should play

Buy base game it is great, DLCS not worth it unless you want 5 seconds worth of boss battles.

Truly love and enjoy this game, reminds me of another game named ''Muck''
If you enjoy Muck, but dont want it to be as silly and take it a bit serious and just kill everything you see, I RECOMMEND YOU THIS!
Addicting game! <3

Saw this game and was on deal so i bought it. thought it was gonna be a background game to play as i watch youtube. i was wrong. in 10 days i have played 45 hours of this game and im still only on the tip of the iceberg. ong 10/10. (solo player btw, ik it would be cooler to play with mates but im a lonely mf)

The local network game does not work after the last update, it is not possible to play with friends, lags, bugs, absolutely unnecessary dependence of the game on frame rate and MANY other things that were ruined by the latest update.
Please fix the local network game.

One of my favorite games currently love the style of the art and movement i would recommend 100% to everyone if you enjoy leveling up games or anime honestly

A real fun R.L. to play with or without friends. Big rec for people who wanna have a good amount of fun catching that perfect run high.

As you can see from the playtime I love this game and play it a lot, however since they released the DLC and updated the game I have had 3 runs break due to the teleporter not spawning anywhere on the map. Force ending a run after 2 hours is a good way to kill any motivation of playing. This is a new issue (for me at least) and never happened a single time pre DLC.

I was about to recommend this game but when I went to play it just now all my artifacts were removed from my game, wasting the 93 hours I put into it.

I played the game and there was in fact a risk of rain....

But in all seriousness This game is great and Hopoo Games made a masterpiece.

The game play loop, the music, the maps, the challenge, the surprising hidden lore it's all great and I'm glad this game is a masterpiece.
I know gearbox kinda screwed it up for releasing that update and causing a lot of bugs but I believe they are genuine on fixing the game. I hope they keep making updates and fixing the game.

Stop whining and play this already. I know you own it, everyone does. You're just too scared to sink the hours into this to actually enjoy it. You're a pussy. Everyone can tell.

Addicting gameplay loop with well designed enemies and playable characters.

8.8/10

1. start a run
2. kill things
3, get money from killing things
4. use that money to open chests
5. get a item from the chest
6. use the item to kill more things
7. repeat
8. 60 min late became become a war crime and obliterate every thing in a 50 meter radius
10/10 would become a war crime again

It's probably fine if you're new to the series. But most of my playtime was when hoopoo owned and developed it, the game was amazing. Gearbox update has left the game in a considerably worse state.

We're playing with 3 people party, and when we collect all of the needed items, just one that placed them all unlocks the new character Chef. And others just worked for nothing... There's a certain effort that every member of the party spent to collect all of those items. It is not fair to unsee all of the other members' effort and just let the "player that placed items" win the award. :/

I don't really get it. Even despite the incredible reviews, I just can't have fun with it. It hardly even feels like I'm playing a game to begin with, just pick up every item you see, aim at the enemy and use your abilities on cooldown. Don't get me wrong, a game not requiring strategy can be fine, but if the base gameplay isn't fun either then what's left?

As someone who loved the game when it first released, played the original Risk of Rain and Risk of Rain Returned. I love this game. But the newest DLC just takes most of the fun out of it. So many possibilities of runs just ending due to unbalanced issues. I know they have a road map and have already reworked most items. But the game is not as fun as it was before the newest DLC patch. The DLC Final boss having insane killing power no matter how strong you are. Items can be positioned so when aqcuired they just spawn and fall off the map? It's almost as if the current devs do not actually play the game they work on themselves. Its such a shame the state the transformed this game into. Building off a strong and amazing legacy game, and turning it into something that is not enjoyable when thinking of the factors that just immediately ruin runs.

This review will be changed when they actually fix what they promised to do.

One of the great rogue-likes, hard as nails, high cool factor, fun to learn and beat
8/10

I adore this game! A friend got me to buy it when it was on sale and I have had a BLAST with it! Especially with Survivors of the Void and Seekers of the Storm, after the first roadmap update, and I'm looking forward for future updates and DLCs if it gets any more.

What a crazy game, with a banger soundtrack, grab some friends and play it out. Only thing I wish was better was item descriptions on the ground, its rough as a new or returning player because you have to go wiki everything for a couple hours before you can even play at a reasonable speed.

Risk of Rain? Not just rain. There's also a risk of pain, and it's all in vain. The only thing to be gained through the playing of this game is suffering. Oh, five Clay Dunestriders spawned as the teleporter boss on stage four? Pain. Oh, my balls retracted into my perineum as I encountered my 28th bungus? Pain. Oh, did I just get randomly one-shot by an enemy on stage 69 (haha, but true story) because the spawn rates scale infinitely and my computer caps the game at 23FPS post stage 50? Pain. There is a lot more to this game than a forecast of precipitation. In fact, there's no rain at all. Not one drop; however, you can make the blood of your enemies rain upon the stage if you get lucky enough, and that alone makes the slot machine worth cranking.

I simply cannot believe I let this game sit in my library for THREE YEARS before I finally decided to install it. Over the course of the past three years, it's one of the most fun gaming experiences I've had. I highly recommend Risk of Rain 2 if you're a masochist and LOVE when your skill as an epic gamer is degraded by RNG and difficulty, like me. Thank you, devs. Your game always has me kicking my feet when I enter a run.

i like the this game because when en I put a sentry turret down I ca n win a lott. then wen i finde an Bustling Fungus i win. very good game!

this game stinks and i disagree with everything it stands for




(it is peak)

I can't believe the audacity of these developers of not making some of the maps easier to access and jump for my dear girlfriend who's doing a challenge run with me of not using any items. I can't believe that the Petrichor V Moon is so fractured that there are some areas (pillars) where you just can't access them by just being able to walk and jump normally.

Amazing game worth every penny. Especially fun to play with friends and yap while killing ohrdes and bosses

great roguelite, they are fixing it fast and well after gearbox acquired hopoo games, and its been quite fun. even better w friends, and maybe mods :3

---{ Graphics }---
☐ You forget what reality is
☑ Beautiful
☐ Good
☐ Decent
☐ Bad
☐ Don‘t look too long at it
☐ MS-DOS

---{ Gameplay }---
☑ Very good
☐ Good
☐ It's just gameplay
☐ Mehh
☐ Watch paint dry instead
☐ Just don't

---{ Audio }---
☐ Eargasm
☑ Very good
☐ Good
☐ Not too bad
☐ Bad
☐ I'm now deaf

---{ Audience }---
☑ Kids
☑ Teens
☑ Adults
☐ Grandma

---{ PC Requirements }---
☐ Check if you can run paint
☑ Potato
☐ Decent
☐ Fast
☐ Rich boi
☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer

---{ Game Size }---
☐ Floppy Disk
☑ Old Fashioned
☐ Workable
☐ Big
☐ Will eat 10% of your 1TB hard drive
☐ You will want an entire hard drive to hold it
☐ You will need to invest in a black hole to hold all the data

---{ Difficulty }---
☐ Just press 'W'
☐ Easy
☑ Easy to learn / Hard to master
☐ Significant brain usage
☐ Difficult
☐ Dark Souls

---{ Grind }---
☐ Nothing to grind
☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks
☐ Isn't necessary to progress
☑ Average grind level
☐ Too much grind
☐ You'll need a second life for grinding

---{ Story }---
☐ No Story
☑ Some lore
☐ Average
☐ Good
☐ Lovely
☐ It'll replace your life

---{ Game Time }---
☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee
☐ Short
☐ Average
☐ Long
☑ To infinity and beyond

---{ Price }---
☐ It's free!
☑ Worth the price
☐ If it's on sale
☐ If u have some spare money left
☐ Not recommended
☐ You could also just burn your money

---{ Bugs }---
☐ Never heard of
☑ Minor bugs
☐ Can get annoying
☐ ARK: Survival Evolved
☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs

---{ ? / 10 }---
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so many hours poured into this game only for gearbox to absolutely tank this game. Just had my progress all get corrupted. Thanks gearbox. :) You good for nothing company.

Great game, until Gearbox became the developer also and made it a buggy mess since SotS.