Risk of Rain Returns
Worth it · Roguelike · 2023
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $14.99.
- Length
- 7.6h
- Value
- $1.97/hr
- Reviews
- 90% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Nvidia GeForce GT 710, 1 GB or AMD Radeon R7 240, 1 GB, 348 MB of storage. Windows only.
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!
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The value story
It has never been cheaper than $7.49. That was June 2026. Its cuts run 25 percent off as a rule. There have been 25 in the 3 years tracked, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 5 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 6 weeks.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 15 percent on value. It is pricier than 65 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 81 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Risk of Rain (2013) ($9.99, scores 82) beats it on value, while it beats Children of Morta ($21.99, scores 73).
11 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written December 2023 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 72 percent of the 3,134 reviews written there were positive, against 90 percent overall, and those are 13 percent of everything written about it.
HowLongToBeat players log 7.6 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 80, 11 times as much.
At 7.6 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.
The drop-off
93% start to 55% finishPeople genuinely stick with this one. Steam global achievements
Players
220 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
I like the game a lot. I have a ton of good memories from the original game. I was hesitant to play a remake. This is more than a remake, this is a great improvement that I see myself playing a ton of.
9/10 RoR (2013) was one of my all-time favourite games, and Returns is better in every way with zero downsides. If you loved the original then Returns is unmissable. It's basically the same game, but with nicer graphics, unlockable abilities for every survivor, two brand new survivors, actual online play, new enemies, new items, and new music. Absolute must-play.
this game is like fortnite but if it was a roguelike and if it was 2d and pixel graphics and like more cool but its not fortnite it is risk of rain and t also is not like fortnite
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Risk of Rain Returns scores 77/100 on the BANG Score (worth it). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1337520/risk-of-rain-returnsThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 15, price as of Sep 24.
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