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Crash-land on an alien world, battle escalating monsters, and build item synergies alone or with up to three co-op friends.
Released 11 Aug 2020
Build Item Synergies
Master Distinct Survivors
Change Rules With Artifacts
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.
Developed by Hopoo Games · Published by Gearbox Publishing, 2K
You play as a survivor stranded on a hostile alien planet, fighting through monsters and bosses while searching for a way off-world. Runs move through varied locales and can culminate in a final boss and escape—or continue indefinitely.
Explore each stage, battle enemies, and collect items that strengthen your survivor. Item effects stack and can trigger one another, creating combinations that reshape your attacks and abilities as the threat grows.
Stages, enemies, and items vary between runs, and you can choose from eleven survivors with distinct combat styles and alternate skills. Play solo or online with up to three friends, unlock gameplay modifiers called Artifacts, or take on the rotating Prismatic Trials.
Players often praise the run-to-run variety, the fun of combining item effects into powerful builds, and the different playstyles offered by the survivors. Many also enjoy the soundtrack and playing co-op, though some describe the difficulty as punishing and co-op as stressful when players compete for items. A few reviews raise concerns about multiplayer connection problems and changes to the EULA.
| Platforms | Windows |
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| Achievements | 171 |
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| Players | 1–4 |
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| Multiplayer | Risk of Rain 2 supports solo play and online co-op. The store text states online co-op with up to three friends, for a total of 4 players. Steam also lists Online PvP, and the description mentions Prismatic Trials as a competitive challenge mode. Reviews repeatedly describe Steam-based online multiplayer, public lobbies/quickplay, private friend groups, scaling difficulty with player count, host/client networking, and no local co-op. |
| Multiplayer & mods | Reviews describe a large modding community and say the game can be modded with friends. Mods can add content, alter difficulty, change gameplay, and address multiplayer pain points such as revives. No official multiplayer mod support details are stated in the provided text. |
| Controller support | Xbox |
| Controller required | No |
| DLC / extras | 7 listed on Steam |
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| Metacritic | 85/100 View on Metacritic |
| Website | Official website |
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