Risk of Rain 2

This game is absolutely amazing, just put on some music and you’ll be chilling!

But please fix the multiplayer, me and my friend are on some sort of time limit before one of us disconnects. Which is usually the player that joined the lobby.
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dope game buy the DLC leave it off for the first few runs until you're comfortable 9/10 tho havent seen a single raindrop

An amazing game, it is. The hunger to grow stronger more than any enemy you face takes control of your mind. Then you discover the artifacts and realize that you may as well become the god of the universe. Jokes aside, it's probably one of the greatest games to exist. Great concept, cool art style, I can't find myself hating the game.

This review was made before any item/survivor changes for the SOTS DLC, and I hope they will apply the mentioned changes ASAP because it's currently not enjoyable without modding the bugs out and tweaking the new elements.
Apart from the latest SOTS DLC, this is probably one of the best games I've every played. Since it's a roguelike it's very re-playable and (most of) the survivors and items are very well designed.

Extremely fun and addicting gameplay, can't recommend enough

Somehow one of the most non-story driven games, while also making me want to know more about the world. The art and gameplay can ruin most other games by comparison. If you are afraid of getting addicted to a game, don't play Risk of Rain 2. But hey, if you are not boring, give this game a shot! :)

to stoned to comment, good game to grind before Apex....

this game is impeccable

The core gameplay loop is incredibly simple but fun, soundtrack is great (like seriously this junk is immaculate), and all the survivors are fun to play (except rex) and if you somehow get bored with the near infinitely replayable game, get mods

11/10

Long story short: Game was good, dev sold it's soul to the devil, game went from masterpiece to garbage.

Game was great for a long time but the new DLC is just garbage, a buggy mess with random deaths very little new content and mediocre survivors. Honestly not surprised since I saw gearbox take over but still disappointing none the less.

Action packed, great characters, upgrades, absurd combinations, and a lot of levels.

RoR2 has great longevity and an arcade feel that is easy to pick up, play a bit, and come back to any time. Very replayable.

Great game where you get item drops by killing things and doing oddly specific steps in order to become the ultimate weapon by the end of your run.

You can choose to shoot lasers that 1 tap anything and everything, or turn food into a lethal minigun.

10/10 game

man i wish i could refund every beautiful treasured memory ive ever shared with this game. its surreal to have a large company stomp your favorite indie game into a little brown stain with no warning.
pushing an update so bad it requires a bug fixing roadmap is a new low for gaming. my heart goes out to realm royale players, i didnt understand until it happened to me

At first I was a little bit skeptical about this game, but after giving it some time and putting in some decent hours I can 100% recommend this to everyone.

Its a great introduction into rogue-likes and its fun every play through with so many things to discover. The play style and game art is fantastic. Plus it being coop means even more fun with friends!

Do yourself a huge favor and give RoR2 a try.

The soundtrack is great,if there's anything you should get from this review is that the best aspect of this game is, by far, the soundtrack.

I came to play to check what all the fuss was about. Unfortunately, for me everything else (from the enemy designs to the universe) doesn't click. I like the characters you can choose from, some of the designs are great. Couldn't care less about
the lore. People spent dozens or even hundreds of hours with RoR2, but i kind of wish i could have my 7 hours back.

This is a game where you will memorize synergies of itens and will be stuck on the same frenetic gameplay loop over and over again. I think this means it it's fun for a lot of people, so i'm recommending the game for the obsessive people with hyperfixation, just wish i had never played it.

I have played this game for hundreds of hours on Playstation. Picked it up since I'm getting into pc gaming and it's still just as great.

I don't have seekers of the storm dlc but I do have survivors of the void on Playstation. Survivors of the void has 2 characters that are pretty good and a new game mode that really makes it worth it for me. It's fight club in a small arena. So much fun!

Absolutely worth your money if you like rouge-like games, and also sometime a bit frustating when u keep getting bunch of trash and somehow u can't find scrapper for the next 3 stages, anyway still an amazing game.

Railgunner favorite character, I can rail everything and anything I want, I really like railing things, it makes me feel good inside, so much pleasure after railing something sooooooo hard in the face. 10000/10 railing is fun.

Got it recently and Its way too addicting, quite difficult but a fun challenge, would recommend if you like roguelikes or third person shooters. The music soundtrack is also excellent, its weird at first but you soon understand the vibe of it. Multiplayer lobbies aren't ever really active, unless you join a game in progress. But don't get me wrong, it's a fantastic game, that I would 100% recommend!

seekers of the storm ruined the game if you buy the game down patch to it before the new dlc that is a 10/10 game currently one of the worst most buggy games due to sots shout out to gearbox

I love this game. I love this series. I, in good faith, cannot recommend to this game anymore to an average consumer.
The Gearbox update that came along with the Seekers of the Storm DLC broke the game in so many ways, it's not hard to find a list. A plethora of bugs that weren't there in the Devotion update prior, on top of the DLC content itself being lackluster and bloating the item pools with worthless trash as to make every run even harder.
There is one saving grace though, the modding scene. If you're willing to go and mod the game, you can fix a lot of, if not all of the issues with the Gearbox patch, and if you're really willing to commit to mods, there are a plethora that totally rebalance the content Seekers of the Storm adds, and makes it feel like a real, proper, fun expansion. But that's the reason I can't recommend this game to the average consumer. If you have no want to install mods and fix up the problems that Gearbox caused, your only option is to either downpatch, or play through the hell that is the most recent update.
But, I still have faith in this game's life, not because of Gearbox, but because the huge community around it that will fix whatever bullshit Gearbox decides to throw at us next.

Gearbox Please fix the game and never touch it again. You are the worst thing that happened to Risk of rain 2 ever. In the end you should have just left everything as it was done by Hopoo Games. After all, it was one of my favorite games.

Love the game played it a lot I would like to play it again but I cant when I open it it loads to 3% and closes I tried reinstalling tried moving to another drive tried changing the DPI it wont start and its such a bummer cause I love the game but I cant play it... Apparently the problem is around for like 2 months and its because of the DLC

Gearbox, you were given a golden egg and somehow turned it rotten and let is sprout legs so it could run around and spread it's putrid smell all around.

The DLC content should be pulled, a refund given, and the game reverted to it's state before the update.

You added a red item that gives money at the start of a new stage. You added enemies that take money away from players.

We already have ghors tome and a lunar item that takes away money on hit IF THE PLAYER CHOOSES TOO.

Gearbox doesn't have the slightest idea in how things meld together in this game and seriously need to take a walk back and PLAN to fix their mistakes.

Step 1: Realise that you're constantly under attack and have to be on the run.

Step 2: Desperately grab whatever power ups you can and hope they do something

Step 3: Due to blind luck the combination of power ups happen to make you a literal god.

Step 4: Die because some new enemy one hits you when you're back is turned.

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Play again...

I've bought and refunded this game a couple of times for the past years and finally settled on playing it. Without further introduction, Risk of Rain 2 is one of if not the most well known roguelike/roguelite games out there in the entire gaming community. Hence why I tried forcing myself to play and understand the game multiple times. One thing that put me off was the lack of creativity and variety in the runs. I still stand with this point, as compared to other roguelike games, the way to approach a run in RoR 2 is fairly linear. Nonetheless, the game is still very charming. The in-depth game mechanics between each characters, their skill and interaction with certain items and so on really shows the appeal of the game.

Despite the recent controversy with Gearbox taking over the game as a company, I think RoR 2 lives up to it's name. Not to mention the insanely good soundtrack the game offers. We can only hope that Gearbox at least won't mess up the future of RoR 2.

Solid 9/10. For me to give a game a 9/10, it has to be extremely fun and fresh (originality is a myth, freshness isn't) with no glaring flaws in the gameplay experience. Risk of Rain 2 is a roguelike (fight me) action game where you go to a strange new world and kill its god. The core gameplay loop is exploring a level, killing enemies to get money (and xp but eh) and using that money to open chests and the like to buy a variety of items to help you on your journey, then activating the teleporter and fighting a boss before moving onto the next level until you eventually get to god, at which point he kicks your ass because he's god, but after a couple more tries you eventually manage to kill him and escape the planet. It's got a wide variety of characters who all play in very different and interesting ways even before getting into the items you collect, which vary from increasing stats to making it so that you're immune to damage on Tuesdays, adn sure it's Wednesday, but the damage doesn't know that! and everything in this game stacks, allowing for some truly crazy bullshit. Difficulty increases as time passes, pressing you to find a balance between being fast and being thorough. The variety of characters, the variety of items and enemies, and the depth of the aforementioned balancing act adds an immense amount of depth and replayability even before getting into the artifacts and the loops and the alt gamemodes and the skill unlocks and the like. I'm nearly 400 hours deep, and the game's still getting more and more fun. Also i fucking love the lore, but i'm not gonna factor that into the review

RoR2 is missing that explosion of frantic maximalist gameplay that built the one-more-run feel of RoR1. It's good, and in multiplayer, it's even better. But after beating it a few times with different classes and I feel no desire to play through the underwhelming levels again.

Now unplayable after Seekers of the Storm. Crashes after 2 mins of every run. Riddled with technical faults and broken since the DLC. Do not buy.

Ever since Gearbox started updating the game, it doesn't even open anymore.
I've tried every fix I know and have found on the internet and the only way to "get past" the locked up loading screen is to force the game to open the console menu and then make a new profile. That doesn't even work anymore after I've been scrambling for a proper fix all day.
Fucking hilarious. Really? What a joke.

The game has been ruined by Gearbox and their recent DLC. Even without owning it, the latest updates just break tons of mechanics that made this game great. Gearbox has no Idea what they are doing. After 3k hours speedrunning, challenge running, finding fun mechanics - these updates make me NOT RECOMMEND the game anymore.

Hopoo no longer develops the game.
All monitization and otherwise is fully given to Gearbox, who has done a terrible job at maintaining the game's integrity
I would recommend you find some alternative way of playing the game, an older version prior to Gearbox takeover that is.

This game is fun and intense regardless of the difficulty you play. It is a true test of time management and luck that comes with a very rewarding satisfaction when finished. there are loads of achievements to unlock and challenge yourself to, for those determined achievement hunters.

i came back after a month and i cant even play multiplayer, dont buy the game, dont give money to the stupid company who decided to trash the perfectly good pc code and port the dogshit console code over to make the game unplayable. screw gearbox

The patch that released with the DLC bricked my nearly 300 hour save. Spawn rates are now tied to FPS for some reason, which has caused Aurelionite to be non-functional 3 runs in a row. Also, Gearbox.

Don't buy this unless you like giving Randy Pitchford money
...more like Pitchfuck...

It's been effectively a month since the DLC came out for ROR2. Why am I not leaving the review there? It also broke the core game. This game is on my top 3 all time... until the update popped up and made the game objectively worse. 90+% of my time is spent in the hardest difficulty, just for some perspective.

Real quick, a list of things that are GOOD about the DLC:
-The soundtrack SLAPS. Top three all time soundtrack without a question, probably #1. The new map songs are just as good.
-The new maps are a great addition to the game

And that's it. I guaruntee this game wasn't play tested to any sort of degree. The best example of this is that the bosses laser and the mini boss lasers WERE SYNCED TO FPS. WHO DOES THIS?
- 80+ percent of the new items are insta-scrap. The knockup item is garbage, the green thorn does nothing, the split damage is a negative in many cases, and that's just the start. On the subject of items, the sale star should be a red tier. It makes some runs absolutely non-fun when used properly and makes command artifact just dumb (with current scaling).
- Chef is comically bad. He feels bad. His combos suck. His abilities hardly synergize. He's a 1 trick. I don't know how you have multiple good mods to look at and this is absolutely a worse version of any of them.
- Speaking of which, scaling is hot garbage now. You'll get to stage four and die before you even spawn (because bad guys can spawn before you!?). They claimed to fix the issue where on stage one you'll be waiting around... I'm not sure I've noticed it being any better.
- 'Gilded' is absolute garbage. They have WAY WAY too much health, on top of the shield. PICK ONE.
- I swear chance shrines are bugged and I fail 80% of the time now. My friends I play co-op agree.
- A simple bug, the primary attack the Vagrants do are unable to be attacked in multiplayer. This has been since day 1 of the DLC.
- The new small worms are overtuned, and are basically to be ignored if gilded and you're not meme-tier broken.

It's been nearly a month since the last patch and my most of my complaints still exist.
All of this leads to the game feeling WORSE after the one or two patches AFTER the game broke from the DLC. They then have let the game sit without any real fixes for i believe 3+ weeks... AFTER TAKING EVERYONE'S MONEY.

Getting this + the SOTV DLC on sale for like 10 bucks might've been the best deal I've ever gotten when it comes to video games. ROR2 very quickly became one of my, if not my favorite game of all time. The concept, stages, characters, soundtrack, lore... I wouldn't even know where to begin praising this game if I tried. (okay, that's a lie, I'd start with the soundtrack, Chris Christodoulou is a genius)

This is the first the time in a while that I'm actually addicted to a game that's *genuinely* fun. Not fun in the way that predatory live service games are, but the type of actual fun that should be the ultimate goal of any video game. I've poured a couple hundred hours into this game already and there will be several hundreds more to come. Also, this game has one of the most dedicated and talented modding communities I have ever seen, ranging from QoL mods to basegame-quality-like characters and stages, so even if you get sick of the base game at some point you're not running out of new content worth checking out any time soon.

Not sure how this game evaded me for so many years, it's fantastic.

Game won't load past 3% - has been a confirmed bug for over a month affecting players at random. Can't even play the game I've owned for years. Thanks Gearbox.

Spend 3-4 hours building character for epic 1 shot boss fight
Enter Boss fight
Game crashes from too many on hit effects and cannot compute damage numbers
10 / 10 would recommend

I have 338 hours in this game. 330 of which were pre seekers of the storm. They have butchered my favorite game. The new enemies are not fun. The new elites are not fun and unfair. The new items are poorly designed and just water down the item pool and make runs harder. While the new stages and music are fantastic they cannot even come close to make up for the absolute assassination that gearbox committed on this game I once loved. There are items that also genuinely just screw you over, and I'm not talking about the lunars. The Unstable transmitter has killed me on multiple occasions. The new survivors are also nothing special. Seeker is is a buggy mess and her abilities are unintuitive and often get you killed. Chef is a worse version of the mod that has been out for over a year. And I haven't even gotten the false son yet. That leads me to the next problem, the mods. So many mods are broken because gearbox decided to fuck up the code of the game so badly. Mods that have worked through every major update now are defunct and most likely will not be updated because why would a mod developer waste their time on fixing a mod for a game that is now worse. Base risk of rain and the Survivors of the Void are fantastic but i cannot in good faith recommend seekers of the storm. I will change this review if gearbox ever decided to overhaul the update (unlikely). I want the best for this game and that means massive changes to the new content. Gearbox is a spiritually spent money hungry company now so i doubt there will be any updates in the future for this wonderful game. Here's hoping that I'm wrong but i doubt so.

I promise these people aren't just crazy or mad or exaggerating. I love this game to death and I am endlessly disappointed. I don't believe that this can go on forever. Eventually there must be a patch or an apology or SOMETHING. Until Risk of Rain 2 announces something, please just wait to buy.

I'm sure everyone at Gearbox will pat themselves on the back for what good of a job they did, absolutely deranged and deluded that may be. An absolute masterclass on how to take something sacred and taint it with the ires of greed. This is exactly why providence destroyed the first ship. to the T.

They really never learn, huh.

This game is fantastic, but I am down voting based on the DLC. :(

They just added 3 achievements well after the DLC released, retroactively adding completion requirements to force players who want 100% to buy the content.

By all accounts, the DLC is a bad purchase, which is a shame as I was looking forward to it. I now have to buy the content to regain my 100% completion.

I wouldn't normally be too annoyed by this, but in this case it feels like they saw the wave of negative reviews and are are trying to force a group of players (admittedly probably a small percentage) to buy the DLC to recoup some of their investment.

Scummy if true. If it's not true, then why would the achievements not have dropped with the content on Day 1?

If you got to play the game before it got bought out, you get to remember having fun playing a functional game. That game is gone now. This is left. Disappointing.

Gearbox completely broke the game. With Gearbox now running the show I have to say stay away from this game. It's used to be fun as hell but I can't support such a greedy, idiotic, franchise ruining company. There are plenty of other games on the market now that will scratch the same itch that RoR2 does.

First off: I love RoR2! I've played hundreds of hours. If you haven't played it, buy the base game, right now!!! The reviews used to be overwhelmingly positive, until the new DLC tanked it. The base game deserves a high rating. Survivors of the Void DLC is also pretty good, and adds a fair amount of fun content. I recommend it as well.

BUT....

DO NOT BUY Seekers of the Storm DLC. Yes, they fixed some of the bugs that were glaringly apparent at launch, but it's still completely under-cooked and uninspired. First, let's talk about the price. $15 is insane for an expansion of a handful of maps, 3 half-baked playable characters, and however many items (17 I think), when the base games is around $25 or less. You aren't getting anywhere near double the content of the base game, yet they're asking you to pay more than half of the base game cost.

The new maps are just okay, but probably the best part of the DLC. A couple of them are well designed and fun, and a couple are the opposite.

The new characters feel like modded characters. Modded characters aren't polished, many of them are still fun as hell to play, but they all have one thing in common that makes the lack of polish acceptable; the're FREE!!!!!!!!! The new characters are severely lacking in creativity and polish. Worse than that, they aren't really unique. They all kind of feel like an amalgamation of already existing characters, but not in a fun way. I found them boring.

For me, the worst part of the DLC is the new items. They aren't fun. Most of them are defensive, so you almost don't even notice their effects. They don't make you feel more powerful when you get them. Some of them are just objectively pointless. For example: Knockback Fin. Causes enemies to pop up in the air like 5 feet when hit. What could possibly be the purpose of this? If anything, it's a hindrance. More often than not, an enemy is launched and then you miss them with subsequent shots. Dumb. I find myself avoiding almost all of the new items. Again, there are a ton of mods for items if you want to spice things up, but for FREE.

To be clear; I don't mind paying for content. I want to support games that I spend a lot of time playing. But, nobody wants to be taken advantage of, and that's what this feels like. It feels like they leveraged the community's love for the game to price gouge and put out a product that would take just long enough to realize how bad it is that you won't be able to refund it. You'll spend 2 hours hoping that there's more, just to find out it's too late, and you're a sucker.

I see myself as one of RoR2's biggest fans. I've loved it since early access, and I still do. Corporate greed has just gotten the better of the new DLC. Yes, Gearbox released a statement promising to make it right, but don't give them your money until they deliver. They've done literally the bare minimum so far, which is fix stuff that shouldn't have been released in the first place. The sell now, fix later model has got to stop. It's BS. I'm tired of it. You're tired of it. You're going to see a lot of reviews saying to cut the devs a break and it's going to get better. I'll cut the devs a break when they give us $15 of content. Right now, I see it only as a cash grab.

I will change my review to positive if/when the devs deliver on their promises.

Love the game, hate having my profile be corrupted randomly one day
I see a lot of people have this happen too. I wouldn't mind so much if making a new profile had the option to give me progress back based off my steam achievements or something since there's one for every item and character

I don't know if I'll ever get back into the game with such a demoralizing bug

I don't usually leave good reviews, but this game is genuinely a masterpiece, i wanted to hate it, but the mechanic of never-ending waves of enemies while the difficulty is increasing by itself is very fun and it will always be, if you enjoy being swarmed by waves of enemies while building unique and fun builds while having a fucking blast with your friends, then this game is for you, the whole game is basically blowing up aliens, exploring and having fun

Base game and Survivors of The Void are not bad, but by God is Seekers of The Storm horrible. Not only that, but the elite spawns are still screwed up, twisted elites are the worse thing ever created, and more than half of the new items are just awful. Still do not recommend until most of the problems gets fixed, or gearbox basically shuts down, either are good.

Game was perfect. Then the seekers of the storm DLC was released. DLC makes the game much much harder. Anyone who doesn't have the DLC gets to enjoy all the new bugs. Fun stuff.