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Nominate us for the Steam Awards!

The Steam Awards are upon us! It’s that special time of year where we ask our amazing community members to hit the ✨ shiny button ✨ to select Risk of Rain: Returns for Better with Friends!



It’s been crazy seeing all the new players jumping into Risk of Rain: Returns for the first time or coming in after playing the first Risk of Rain from 10 years ago! We wanted to give a HUGE THANK YOU to all of you. The team has been watching the streams, videos, posts, and messages and has been blown away by the response.

We hope you’re enjoying playing together and discovering everything new and old with your friends. Today, we’re hoping you’ll nominate Risk of Rain: Returns for the Better with Friends category!

Thank you everyone for your nominations, we look forward to seeing you in-game!

Patch Notes 1.0.3

Hello everyone! We have just released the latest patch for Risk of Rain Returns - once again the primary focus of this patch is to fix bugs reported by the community, which also includes some changes that should make Artificer stronger and make Overloading Elites less punishing. If you have any other bug reports and/or feedback for us you can do so on our Discord. Thank you to everyone who has given us feedback so far!

A quick reminder that the new aiming feature mentioned in the previous patch notes (1.0.2) is still in development, we will update you on this feature as soon as possible.

[h3]Patch 1.0.3 Changes:
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  • Increased Teleporter particle visibility range.
  • Fixed a crash that could occur when the game started while set to a display that is no longer connected.
  • Fixed a high-pitched sound that would play for some users in certain circumstances when restarting a run.
  • Added an additional safeguard that should allow the game to start if cutscene videos take too long to load.
  • Fixed crashes related to unlocking a certain secret.
  • Fixed a softlock relating to a certain secret.
  • Fixed challenges relating to completing stage 3 (such as Bandit) not unlocking for multiplayer clients.
  • Reduced the range of overloading enemies.
  • Fixed a crash that can occur if Direseeker is instantly killed by the player.
  • Fixed the Sniper's default Secondary Skill consuming all stocks at once.
  • Increased the range of the Engineer's Utility Skill.
  • Artificer's Primary Skill now deals damage more consistently.
  • Fixed the Artificer's Primary Skill interacting poorly with Shattered Mirror.
  • Artificer's alternate Utility Skill now requires a second input to execute multiple times.
  • Fixed temporary Dio's Friend making the player unkillable when consumed.
  • Fixed a softlock when using the Loader's alternate Secondary Skill into a pit.
  • Fixed info for locked trials being openable by clicking.
  • Corrected the Lynx Totem's killscreen icon.
  • Fixed a crash when collecting Classified Access Codes in "Judgement".
  • Removed player hitstun from the "Castle of Memories" Providence Trial.
  • Fixed a possible softlock in the "Castle of Memories" Providence Trial.
  • Decreased invincibility frames on Miner's default Secondary Skill.
  • Fixed duplicate player join messages appearing during online play.


Thanks again everyone!

-Hopoo Games

Risk of Rain Returns review




With Risk of Rain Returns, the classic action-roguelike franchise has come full circle—as has my scepticism about its latest direction. A fervent devotee of the original, I remember responding with incredulity when a full-3D sequel was announced back in 2017. After sinking over 150 hours in that game I became a full-fledged convert, so much so that I now find myself with a paradoxically similar set of doubts: am I ready, or even willing, to smash my escape-pod door open and resume dealing death in a side-scrolling 2D world once again?..
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Risk of Rain Returns is finally here, turning the decade-old Steam roguelike into an entirely new experience and one any fan of the genre needs to play and experience for themselves as soon as possible. I've been playing a lot of the Hopoo Games remaster, and it completely lifts a game I bounced off of last year. If you're a fan of Hades, Enter the Gungeon, and Dead Cells, this is the game for you.


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