Risk of Rain 2 Review Summary
Last updated: 2026-06-30
- Highly praised game design
- Excellent audio-visual presentation
- Engaging gameplay loop
- Teleporter objective unclear
- No tutorial or guidance
- Multiplayer is completely broken
Emotions
Archetypes
Hardware
Windows <8GB VRAM / <16GB RAMpositiveWindows <8GB VRAM / 16-31GB RAMnegative
Core metrics
Core business metrics
Steam review mix, revenue model, and refund leakage.
Steam review stats
- Steam rating
- Very Positive (8/10)
- Total reviews
- 349,314
- Positive
- 327,63693.8%
- Negative
- 21,6786.2%
Sales estimations
- Estimated sales count
- 23,093,855
- Estimated revenue
- $577,115,436
- Game price
- $25
- Review → sale ratio
Refund leakage
- Refund-intent reviews
- 3420.90%
- Estimated copies lost
- 22,610
- Estimated revenue lost
- $565,024
Review pace
Statistical analysis
Sentiment vs playtime and velocity signals.
Sentiment × Playtime
review counts| Bucket | Neg | Pos |
|---|---|---|
| ≤ 2h playtime | 3460.9% Avg playtime 1h | 3110.8% Avg playtime 1h |
| > 2h playtime | 2,2205.8% Avg playtime 87h | 35,11792.4% Avg playtime 122.8h |
Velocity
review pace| Avg/day | 14.3 rev/day |
| Last 30d | 68.5 rev/day |
| Quarterly | 951.2 rev/qtr |
| Days covered | 2,650.1 days |
Audience segments
Who is reviewing
Buyer mixes, lifecycle phase, and Steam Deck signals.
Buyer vs key activations
Share of review volume
37,994 total
Organic purchasers26,57669.9%
Voted up: 93%
Key activations11,41830.1%
Voted up: 93%
Honeymoon vs endgame
Based on hours played
37,994 total
First impression0-2h1,0792.84%
Voted up: 62%
Mid game2-10h7,15318.8%
Voted up: 90%
Late game10-20h4,98713.1%
Voted up: 94%
Endgame20h+24,77565.2%
Voted up: 96%
Steam Deck monitor
Deck vs global sentiment
Deck satisfaction
86.9%
Global baseline 93.2%
429 Steam Deck-tagged reviews out of 349,314 total.