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Risk of Rain Returns cover art

Risk of Rain Returns

Hopoo Games · Gearbox Publishing · 2023-11-08

Steam

Action

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative

Releases: Nov 08, 2023 (Nintendo Switch), Nov 08, 2023 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

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!

235
playing now
90%
positive of 29k reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
1,000,000–2,000,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
81/100
critic score (2 outlets, IGDB)
62/100
IGDB user rating (29 ratings)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$7.49
steam price (US)

235 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 01:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Healthy
  • · 235 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 467 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~58/week).
  • · Review velocity down 39% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (20,728 reviews).
  • · Top 6% of 10,791 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 574k–1.3M copies

Review-multiple estimate from 28,676 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

lowest across shops (ITAD)$6.14-52%

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $6.40 at AllYouPlay (2026-08-04) · bundled 5×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $14.99 · on sale 56 of 94 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
19k19k20232026Week of 2023-11-01: 18,633 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 2,095 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 1,194 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 208 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 579 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 84 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 238 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 32 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 228 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 51 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 171 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 173 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 32 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 143 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 25 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 161 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 19 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 145 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 15 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 200 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 18 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 92 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 83 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 100 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 69 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 85 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 71 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 70 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 20 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 74 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 19 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 78 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 46 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 76 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 16 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 94 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 23 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 75 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 17 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 72 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 67 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 84 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 51 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 51 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 33 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 51 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 63 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 48 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 48 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 32 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

250672026-08-06 21:00 — 116 players2026-08-07 05:00 — 90 players2026-08-07 13:00 — 100 players2026-08-07 21:00 — 118 players2026-08-08 05:00 — 114 players2026-08-08 13:00 — 112 players2026-08-08 21:00 — 137 players2026-08-09 05:00 — 112 players2026-08-09 13:00 — 132 players2026-08-09 21:00 — 158 players2026-08-10 05:00 — 92 players2026-08-10 14:00 — 104 players2026-08-10 22:00 — 122 players2026-08-11 06:00 — 105 players2026-08-11 14:00 — 129 players2026-08-12 21:00 — 139 players2026-08-14 05:00 — 91 players2026-08-15 13:00 — 131 players2026-08-16 21:00 — 159 players2026-08-18 04:00 — 115 players2026-08-19 12:00 — 92 players2026-08-20 19:00 — 155 players2026-08-22 03:00 — 168 players2026-08-23 10:00 — 151 players2026-08-24 18:00 — 187 players2026-08-26 02:00 — 223 players2026-08-27 10:00 — 124 players2026-08-28 17:00 — 188 players2026-08-30 01:00 — 235 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$99.99$6.142023-06-232026-08-242023-06-23 — best price $99.992023-11-08 — best price $10.952023-11-23 — best price $13.332023-12-21 — best price $10.742024-01-09 — best price $12.672024-02-03 — best price $12.642024-02-15 — best price $11.892024-03-12 — best price $12.672024-05-05 — best price $12.672024-06-04 — best price $14.992024-10-08 — best price $14.992024-11-07 — best price $14.992024-12-09 — best price $11.242025-01-06 — best price $14.992025-02-13 — best price $9.782025-03-20 — best price $14.992025-04-28 — best price $14.992025-05-26 — best price $14.992025-07-19 — best price $14.992025-08-25 — best price $14.992025-10-08 — best price $14.992025-10-27 — best price $9.782025-11-20 — best price $9.742025-12-12 — best price $14.092026-01-24 — best price $8.492026-02-10 — best price $14.992026-03-03 — best price $13.492026-03-19 — best price $9.742026-04-01 — best price $9.742026-04-21 — best price $14.992026-05-10 — best price $12.632026-06-19 — best price $6.442026-07-10 — best price $12.832026-07-31 — best price $11.512026-08-10 — best price $14.992026-08-24 — best price $6.14
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Twitch viewers

202026-08-26 19:15 — 0 viewers2026-08-26 20:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-26 22:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-27 01:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-27 03:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-27 05:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-27 07:33 — 0 viewers2026-08-27 09:33 — 0 viewers2026-08-27 11:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-27 13:34 — 2 viewers2026-08-27 15:34 — 2 viewers2026-08-27 17:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-27 19:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-27 22:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-28 02:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-28 04:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-28 06:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-28 08:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-28 10:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-28 12:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-28 14:34 — 2 viewers2026-08-28 16:35 — 1 viewers
Hourly Twitch viewers (census snapshots).

Completion

60+
achievements tracked
93.1%
earned "Lizard Bait"
36.2%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerMulti-playerCo-opOnline Co-opShared/Split Screen Co-opShared/Split ScreenSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam Trading CardsAdjustable Text Size1 DLC

11 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Turkish, Simplified Chinese

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)22,3423%155
Switch (Nintendo)1850%0

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Where its players are

Share of Steam reviews by language (top languages measured) — a proxy for where the player base lives.

Player tags

2DPvELootSpaceActionArcadeSci-fiControllerRogue-likeClass-Based

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

Recent updates

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