Risk of Rain 2
Fight monster hordes, collect interacting items and seek escape from an alien planet in Risk of Rain 2, where randomized runs bring escalating player and enemy power.
- AI score · out of 10
- 8.6 / 10
About this game
Choose a survivor and fight through monster-filled stages while collecting items whose effects combine. Stages, enemies and items are randomized, and unlockable survivors offer distinct abilities to learn. Both your power and enemy power increase as a run progresses. You can fight toward a final boss and escape, or continue the run to see how long you survive. The recurring activity is adapting a survivor's abilities and the items you collect to the encounters in front of you.
Collected in series
Risk of Rain is an action roguelike series about surviving hostile alien worlds while time keeps raising the stakes. Items accumulate into powerful combinations, and each run asks you to weigh another search for loot against the danger of staying too long.
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AI review
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For players who enjoy adapting an item build as both sides of a survival run grow stronger.
Randomized encounters and combining item effects may make improvisation more appealing than executing a fixed plan. The choice to pursue escape or continue gives players interested in escalating survival a meaningful direction to consider.
Strengths
- Interacting item effects and distinct survivor abilities may appeal to players who enjoy experimenting with combinations.
- Continuing instead of escaping provides an explicit option for players interested in extending a survival attempt.
Weaknesses
- Randomized items may frustrate players who want to reproduce a specific build reliably.
Who it is for: Players who like learning character abilities, adapting to variable loot and deciding how far to push a survival run.
Play notes: Nintendo Switch is excluded from the publisher's future content releases; existing content should not be confused with the ongoing plans for newer platforms.
View scoring basis
| Dimension | Review state | Score | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dimension Increasing power on both sides and the option to continue may appeal to players who want survival attempts to build toward greater stakes. | Reviewed | 8.7 / 10 | Not provided |
| Dimension Distinct abilities and interacting items may suit players who enjoy finding useful combinations from what a run provides. | Reviewed | 9.0 / 10 | Not provided |
| Dimension The alien-planet setting frames the monster encounters as a struggle to escape, which may suit players drawn to survival in unfamiliar territory. | Reviewed | 8.6 / 10 | Not provided |
| Dimension Single-system play is solo, and local multiplayer needs separate consoles and copies. That arrangement fits groups with their own systems more readily than a group sharing one screen. | Reviewed | 7.2 / 10 | Not provided |
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Core information
- Developer
- Hopoo Games
- Publisher
- Gearbox Software
- Release date
- 2019
- Platforms
- Nintendo Switch
- Content kind
- Game
- Release state
- Released
- Region
- Worldwide
- Official website
- Not provided
- Offline minimum players
- Not provided
- Offline maximum players
- Not provided
- Online minimum players
- Not provided
- Online maximum players
- Not provided
- Categories
- Action · Primary genreShooter
- Tags
- Solo-friendlyPlatformingFast-pacedCollection-richEquipment-driven ProgressionDodgeLocal Co-opLevel ProgressionReplayable3D GraphicsReal-time CombatShootingScience FictionThird Person
- Supported game languages
- Not provided
- Requires base game
- Not provided
- Standalone
- Not provided
- Age ratings
- Not provided
- Play modes
- Single playerMultiplayerCo-op
- Perspectives
- Third person
Release editions
- Windows PCWorldwideAug 11, 2020
- Nintendo SwitchWorldwide2019
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Sources
- www.nintendo.comSource revision: 1
- www.nintendo.com