Risk of Rain Returns Review Summary
Last updated: 2026-10-17
- Major graphical improvements delivered
- Excellent gameplay remains fun
- Outstanding soundtrack and music
- Great remake and remaster
- Overshadowed by Risk of Rain 2
- Awkward and clunky controls
Emotions
Archetypes
Hardware
Windows <8GB VRAMpositive
Core metrics
Core business metrics
Steam review mix, revenue model, and refund leakage.
Steam review stats
- Steam rating
- Very Positive (8/10)
- Total reviews
- 28,765
- Positive
- 25,89690.0%
- Negative
- 2,86910.0%
Sales estimations
- Estimated sales count
- 2,029,981
- Estimated revenue
- $30,429,415
- Game price
- $15
- Review → sale ratio
Refund leakage
- Refund-intent reviews
- 242.22%
- Estimated copies lost
- 1,694
- Estimated revenue lost
- $25,393
Review pace
Statistical analysis
Sentiment vs playtime and velocity signals.
Sentiment × Playtime
review counts| Bucket | Neg | Pos |
|---|---|---|
| ≤ 2h playtime | 242.2% Avg playtime 0.9h | 292.7% Avg playtime 1.1h |
| > 2h playtime | 857.9% Avg playtime 29.1h | 94387.2% Avg playtime 41.5h |
Velocity
review pace| Avg/day | 1 rev/day |
| Last 30d | 2.7 rev/day |
| Quarterly | 54.8 rev/qtr |
| Days covered | 1,073.1 days |
Audience segments
Who is reviewing
Buyer mixes, lifecycle phase, and Steam Deck signals.
Buyer vs key activations
Share of review volume
1,081 total
Organic purchasers78872.9%
Voted up: 90%
Key activations29327.1%
Voted up: 89%
Honeymoon vs endgame
Based on hours played
1,081 total
First impression0-2h1079.90%
Voted up: 72%
Mid game2-10h37634.8%
Voted up: 93%
Late game10-20h20919.3%
Voted up: 89%
Endgame20h+38936.0%
Voted up: 93%
Steam Deck monitor
Deck vs global sentiment
Deck satisfaction
87.8%
Global baseline 89.9%
49 Steam Deck-tagged reviews out of 28,765 total.