Risk of Rain Returns

Whether it's your first run or 50th, Risk of Rain Returns offers roguelike action like few other titles. The HD visuals and new content are great, but the game's excellent core is polished and enhanced even more.

More than an attempt to cash in on the growing popularity of a series that started out in a somewhat niche way, Risk of Rain Returns is a welcomed remake that offers enough quality-of-life improvements and new content to be relevant and appealing to both fans and newcomers to the action roguelike genre. It plays great, has enough content and diversity to keep you entranced for weeks, and the new additions might just be what the game needed to appeal to a crowd that wasn’t attracted by the original. While not perfect, it’s a blasted good time where every frustrating death is nothing but an invi...

The ultimate Risk of Rain experience, featuring quality new content that makes this game extremely entertaining and replayable.

With its enhancements over the original release, Risk of Rain Returns is an excellent game to spend some time with, whether that's on your own or playing with mates. It does make me want to go and play more Risk of Rain 2 though, as I do miss the extra dimension, but that could just be a me problem.

Risk of Rain Returns is a worthy remake of the ten year old sidescroller roguelike Risk of Rain. It maintains what made the original good while adding in new content to add more variety to what was already one of the most enjoyable indie games of the early 2010s. Whether you enjoyed the other Risk of Rain games, or you're just interested in games of this genre, chances are you'll have a fun time with this remake.

A faithful remaster full of neat tweaks and new goodies best enjoyed in co-op.

Risk of Rain Returns might not be quite as free-flowing as its 3D successor, but it's a brilliant recreation of the original title that started it all. It hooks you and keeps you playing, dying, then playing again.

While it would have been expected that the series would continue with another sequel, Hopoo Games' decision to go with the remastered Risk of Rain Returns is a pleasant surprise that we didn't know we needed. The visual upgrade, coupled with the smart additions and gameplay tweaks to an already solid roguelike formula, make for an experience that constantly entertains and challenges the player, even with the niggling issues that will take some getting used to. Brilliantly modernized for a new generation of players, who knew death could be so rewarding?

Risk of Rain Returns shines thanks to a fantastic roster of classes, sublimely chaotic gameplay, and fever-dream like presentation. When firing on all cylinders, it's rare for a game to make the player feel as powerful as this one does, even if some runs take a little too long to get going.

Returning to the golden age of the action-roguelike.