Risk of Rain Returns
Last updated: 2025-11-30
- Exemplary remake offering a superior experience.
- Addictive roguelike combat loop.
- Expansive new content and features.
- Excessive, often unfair difficulty.
- Poor level design hampers navigation.
- Clunky controls and slow movement.
Emotions
Satisfaction52%Frustration19%Disappointment15%Excitement14%Joy13%
Core metrics
Core business metrics
Steam review mix, revenue model, and refund leakage.
Steam review stats
- Steam rating
- Very Positive (8/10)
- Total reviews
- 28,264
- Positive
- 25,42389.9%
- Negative
- 2,84110.1%
Sales estimations
- Estimated sales count
- 2,048,135
- Estimated revenue
- €23,021,037
- Game price
- €15
- Review → sale ratio
Refund leakage
- Refund-intent reviews
- 372.50%
- Estimated copies lost
- 2,681
- Estimated revenue lost
- €30,134
Review pace
Statistical analysis
Sentiment vs playtime and velocity signals.
Sentiment × Playtime
review counts| Bucket | Neg | Pos |
|---|---|---|
| ≤ 2h playtime | 372.5% Avg playtime 1.1h | 191.3% Avg playtime 1.2h |
| > 2h playtime | 19813.4% Avg playtime 29.4h | 1,22682.8% Avg playtime 49.3h |
Velocity
review pace| Avg/day | 2 rev/day |
| Last 30d | 2.7 rev/day |
| Quarterly | 113.1 rev/qtr |
| Days covered | 745.9 days |
Audience segments
Who is reviewing
Buyer mixes, lifecycle phase, and Steam Deck signals.
Buyer vs key activations
Share of review volume
1,480 total
Organic purchasers1,16678.8%
Voted up: 84%
Key activations31421.2%
Voted up: 86%
Honeymoon vs endgame
Based on hours played
1,480 total
First impression0-2h1077.23%
Voted up: 60%
Mid game2-10h46731.6%
Voted up: 87%
Late game10-20h28319.1%
Voted up: 82%
Endgame20h+62342.1%
Voted up: 87%
Steam Deck monitor
Deck vs global sentiment
Deck satisfaction
82.5%
Global baseline 84.1%
63 Steam Deck-tagged reviews out of 28,264 total.