Risk of Rain 2

Escape a chaotic alien planet by fighting through hordes of frenzied monsters – with your friends, or on your own. Combine loot in surprising ways and master each character until you become the havoc you feared upon your first crash landing.

Developer: Hopoo Games
Publisher: Gearbox Publishing, 2K
Franchise: Risk of Rain
Release date: Aug 11, 2020
Store page updated: Jul 9, 2026
Price: $24.99 · Steam store ↗

Review Analysis Score

80.1/ 100

Based on 384 reviews from the past 1 year

Steam User Rating

Recent 😄 Very Positive 93% of 1,213

All time 😄 Very Positive 94% of 352,887

“fun gameplay with friends defeating bosses together”

How it holds up

−50+5

Gameplay

+1.22

Strategy +3.69 · Depth of builds, tactics, and meaningful choices

“creative synergies like syringe and ukulele on commando” (28)

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Story & World

+2.56

World +2.48 · Lore, atmosphere, and how immersive the setting is

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Content Volume

+3.15

Replayability +4.40 · Reasons to play again — runs, randomness, New Game+

“every run different with artifacts, characters, bosses, looping, eclipse” (43)

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Visuals & Sound

+3.28

Audio +4.18 · Music, sound effects, and voice acting

“phenomenal soundtrack perfectly captures the game's feeling” (35)

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Multiplayer

+1.90

Playing together +2.27 · Fun of playing with friends, teammates, or rivals

“even better with friends, fun multiplayer experience” (29)

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Pricing & Fairness

-1.34

Pricing -1.15 · Whether the price, DLC and microtransactions are reasonable, and how much paying gives you an edge

“EULA ransoms product, takes away legal rights” (22)

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Tech & Support

-0.91

Developer support -0.83 · Updates, patches, and how devs respond to players

“Take-Two EULA collects extensive personal data and sells it” (15)

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Scores are the average of reviews that mention each category (−5 to +5). Fainter bars were mentioned by fewer reviews; grey means too few to trust. Tap a category ▾ to see what drives it.

Steam review activity

% positive over time

since launch, by month · major update DLC

Mar 2019Sep 2026

Reviews

per day · 1,210 reviews, peak 67/day

Aug 21Sep 18

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