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Choose a survivor and fight across 2D alien stages, collecting items to outlast escalating hordes alone or in co-op.
Released 08 Nov 2023
Build Item Combos
Fight Through 2D Stages
Play Four-Player Co-op
Carefully designed, beautifully remastered, and loaded with new ways to play—Risk of Rain is back and better than ever! Dive into the iconic roguelike full of unique loot combinations, enhanced with new Survivors, overhauled multiplayer, fan favorite content from Risk of Rain 2, and more!
Developed by Hopoo Games · Published by Gearbox Publishing, 2K









On the alien planet Petrichor V, play as a survivor battling through dangerous stages in an attempt to make it off the surface. The game uses side-scrolling, two-dimensional movement and combat.
Fight varied monsters, explore each stage for items, and combine pickups that can change how your attacks work. Play solo or team up with up to three others in online or local co-op.
Choose from 15 survivors with distinct abilities, then improve your runs with unlocks and discovered secrets. Artifacts let you alter run rules, while challenge trials offer another way to play.
Players often enjoy the polished reworking of the original, especially its 2D action, item combinations, survivor variety, pixel art, and soundtrack. Some also praise the co-op and replayable runs. Other reviews mention steep difficulty or frustration with particular challenge trials.
| Platforms | Windows |
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| Achievements | 155 |
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| Players | 1–4 |
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| Multiplayer | Risk of Rain Returns supports solo play and cooperative multiplayer. The provided store text explicitly states up to four-player online co-op and couch co-op. Reviews repeatedly describe built-in online play, local co-op, improved lobby/network features, and easier play with friends compared with the original. |
| Multiplayer & mods | No mod support for multiplayer is confirmed in the provided official text. One review contrasts the original game as having mod support while Returns has streamlined online multiplayer. A review also mentions drop-in multiplayer as a mod example for Risk of Rain 2, not Returns. Another truncated review mentions '16 player lobbies and mod support' without enough context to confirm this for Returns. |
| Controller support | Xbox |
| Controller required | No |
| DLC / extras | 1 listed on Steam |
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