Risk of Rain Returns
Carefully designed, beautifully remastered, and loaded with new ways to play—Risk of Rain is back and better than ever! This remake of the classic Risk of Rain packs enhanced visuals, an updated codebase, and…
Risk of Rain Returns is a hack and slash/beat 'em up developed by Hopoo Games, released 8 November 2023 on Nintendo Switch and PC (Microsoft Windows). It currently starts at $6.75 at GreenManGaming.
What Risk of Rain Returns is
Risk of Rain Returns is a hack and slash/beat 'em up game developed by Hopoo Games and released in 2023. It was published by Gearbox Publishing. It is available on Nintendo Switch and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on GameMaker.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Carefully designed, beautifully remastered, and loaded with new ways to play—Risk of Rain is back and better than ever! This remake of the classic Risk of Rain packs enhanced visuals, an updated codebase, and tons of new content. No two runs in the iconic roguelike are the same, and that has never been truer. Risk of Rain Returns bring new and enhanced Survivors, customizable Survivor abilities, fresh items, monsters, and a brand-new game mode. The game’s difficulty increases the longer you play, so prepare to fight through hordes of enemies that threaten your continued existence, collect and combine items to enhance your abilities, and scale your power to godlike levels. Many Survivors…
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action and science fiction. It supports multiplayer for up to 4 players online. Local play supports 4 players. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer and Single player.
How it was received
Risk of Rain Returns holds a critic score of 81 out of 100. That places it above 78% of the 1,125 rated hack and slash/beat 'em up games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2023 averaged 76, so it scored 5 points above the year average.
What it costs, and where
The cheapest verified price right now is $6.75 at GreenManGaming, 55% below its usual price.
What it launched against
Risk of Rain Returns launched on 8 November 2023, within three weeks of Alan Wake II, Super Mario Bros. Wonder, Marvel's Spider-Man 2 and The Talos Principle II. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 6 years into the Nintendo Switch's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Alan Wake II, Super Mario Bros. Wonder, Marvel's Spider-Man 2, The Talos Principle II.
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