At the top right corner of the screen, a meter slowly moves right, upping the difficulty from Easy to Medium to Hard (and up and up and up until the difficulty bar just reads 'HAHAHAHAHA') as a run progresses. But then you're assaulted by a horde of low-level creatures. It's generally pretty chill and evocative for the first few seconds. That's its greatest strength-and its only real notable weakness.Įach run begins with your Survivor emerging from an escape pod onto a hostile alien world.

Risk of Rain 2 is all climb until you reach the summit. But I can say that Risk of Rain 2 is a breakneck experience that builds and builds and builds. I didn't play the game during pre-release, so I can't testify to how much content this version adds to what was already there. At the end of a run, you can see every advantage that you have collected, all hanging off of your once-simple character model like fuzzy dice on a car mirror.Īnd, as it launches into 1.0, Hopoo Games' third-person shooter roguelike has a year-and-a-half of early access in its rearview. This is the kind of game Risk of Rain 2 is. Each of these baubles represented a perk we had acquired over the course of our headlong rush to the final boss. A leech was suctioned onto my head, a teddy bear stuck to my shoulder and John Lennon glasses stretched around the front of my domed helmet. My co-op partner had three syringes filled with glowing green slime jutting out of his hip, a sword at his side and a crown on his head.

As we prepared to take on Risk of Rain 2's final boss, we took a moment to take stock of our Survivors.

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