Risk of Rain Returns

Item: Risk of Rain Returns
Rating: 79
Author: VaporLens

Last updated: 2025-07-01

Summary

Definitive remake with franchise integration
Addictive roguelite replayability
Improved multiplayer experience
Technical issues and bugs present
High difficulty and unfair balance
Inferior to Risk of Rain 2

Emotions

Satisfaction34%Frustration13%Disappointment10%Excitement9%Joy7%

Reviews (sample size): 1471
Helpful reviews: 53%
Unhelpful reviews: 44%
Protest reviews: 3%

79%
Helpful reviews with positive sentiment
21%
Helpful reviews with negative sentiment

Positive points: 2065
Negative points: 880
Gameplay points: 463
Perf. points: 33
Rec. points: 347
Misc points: 100

Point	Description	Importance
Definitive Remake & Franchise Integration Description This game is widely praised as an exemplary remake, significantly improving upon the original Risk of Rain while faithfully retaining its core essence. It successfully integrates popular mechanics and content from Risk of Rain 2, offering a refined experience that appeals to both new players and long-time fans of the franchise. Players appreciate the option to customize the experience by enabling or disabling modern features. Importance 100%	This game is widely praised as an exemplary remake, significantly improving upon the original Risk of Rain while faithfully retaining its core essence. It successfully integrates popular mechanics and content from Risk of Rain 2, offering a refined experience that appeals to both new players and long-time fans of the franchise. Players appreciate the option to customize the experience by enabling or disabling modern features.	100%
Addictive Roguelite Replayability Description The game is highly regarded as an excellent roguelite, offering an addictive and satisfying gameplay loop. Its challenging yet fair difficulty, combined with diverse item synergies and varied runs, ensures immense replayability and keeps players engaged for countless hours. Importance 44%	The game is highly regarded as an excellent roguelite, offering an addictive and satisfying gameplay loop. Its challenging yet fair difficulty, combined with diverse item synergies and varied runs, ensures immense replayability and keeps players engaged for countless hours.	44%
Improved Multiplayer Experience Description The game offers a significantly improved and seamless multiplayer experience, making it highly enjoyable to play with friends. Both online co-op and local split-screen modes are praised for their functionality and contribution to the fun. Importance 31%	The game offers a significantly improved and seamless multiplayer experience, making it highly enjoyable to play with friends. Both online co-op and local split-screen modes are praised for their functionality and contribution to the fun.	31%
Expanded Content & Characters Description Players appreciate the substantial amount of new content, including a wide array of unique and balanced characters, new items, abilities, and challenges. This expansion significantly enhances gameplay variety and provides strong incentives for continued play and exploration. Importance 29%	Players appreciate the substantial amount of new content, including a wide array of unique and balanced characters, new items, abilities, and challenges. This expansion significantly enhances gameplay variety and provides strong incentives for continued play and exploration.	29%
Beautiful Updated Pixel Art Description The game features stunningly updated pixel art and significantly improved graphics, which are consistently praised for their beauty, detail, and charm. The visual overhaul enhances immersion while retaining the original game's distinctive aesthetic. Importance 19%	The game features stunningly updated pixel art and significantly improved graphics, which are consistently praised for their beauty, detail, and charm. The visual overhaul enhances immersion while retaining the original game's distinctive aesthetic.	19%
Phenomenal Soundtrack Description The game's soundtrack, composed by Chris Christodoulou, is consistently lauded as outstanding, immersive, and perfectly fitting the game's atmosphere. Reviewers highlight its captivating nature and ability to enhance the overall experience. Importance 17%	The game's soundtrack, composed by Chris Christodoulou, is consistently lauded as outstanding, immersive, and perfectly fitting the game's atmosphere. Reviewers highlight its captivating nature and ability to enhance the overall experience.	17%
Rewarding Providence Trials Description The newly introduced Providence Trials game mode is a highly praised addition, offering fun, varied, and challenging mini-missions. These trials serve as an excellent way to unlock new abilities, items, and skins, while also helping players learn character mechanics. Importance 16%	The newly introduced Providence Trials game mode is a highly praised addition, offering fun, varied, and challenging mini-missions. These trials serve as an excellent way to unlock new abilities, items, and skins, while also helping players learn character mechanics.	16%
Deep Lore & Captivating Atmosphere Description The game is commended for its rich and interesting lore, often hidden within item and monster logs, which encourages exploration. This, combined with a captivating atmosphere and cool stage designs, contributes to a rewarding sense of progression and discovery. Importance 16%	The game is commended for its rich and interesting lore, often hidden within item and monster logs, which encourages exploration. This, combined with a captivating atmosphere and cool stage designs, contributes to a rewarding sense of progression and discovery.	16%
Fast-Paced Chaotic Combat Description The game delivers fast-paced, frantic, and chaotic action, with quick escalation of difficulty and constant danger. Players enjoy the feeling of power progression and the ability to sweep away hordes of enemies in destructive gameplay. Importance 9%	The game delivers fast-paced, frantic, and chaotic action, with quick escalation of difficulty and constant danger. Players enjoy the feeling of power progression and the ability to sweep away hordes of enemies in destructive gameplay.	9%
Customizable Difficulty Options Description A highly appreciated feature is the extensive difficulty customization, including sliders for damage dealt and received. These options allow players to tailor the challenge to their preference, making the game accessible for various skill levels and playstyles. Importance 9%	A highly appreciated feature is the extensive difficulty customization, including sliders for damage dealt and received. These options allow players to tailor the challenge to their preference, making the game accessible for various skill levels and playstyles.	9%
Strong Performance & Value Description The game is praised for its excellent performance on a wide range of hardware, including low-end PCs and the Steam Deck, making it highly accessible. Reviewers also note its good value for money given the extensive content. Importance 6%	The game is praised for its excellent performance on a wide range of hardware, including low-end PCs and the Steam Deck, making it highly accessible. Reviewers also note its good value for money given the extensive content.	6%