Risk of Rain Returns Standard Edition

Risk of Rain Returns is a full remake of the 2013 original, the side-scrolling roguelite that Risk of Rain 2 later turned into a third-person game. Your ship crashes on an alien planet and the only way off is through. The signature mechanic is still the difficulty clock: the longer you stay on a level, the harder everything gets, so every decision is a trade between farming items and outrunning the timer. Items stack without limit and multiply into each other, which is why late runs collapse into screens of missiles, lasers and chain lightning. Fifteen survivors each play completely differently, from the plain Commando to the Drifter who builds items out of scrap, and each has alternate skills to unlock through their own challenge trials. The remake redraws everything at higher resolution, rewrites the soundtrack with Chris Christodoulou, adds new stages, items and enemies, and replaces the old netcode with four-player online co-op that works. A providence trial mode and a full mod loader round it out. This is the only edition: the complete remake with all fifteen survivors, the new stages and four-player online co-op. Keys activate on Steam.