Risk of Rain (2013)
Worth it · Roguelike · 2013
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $9.99.
- Length
- 4.7h
- Value
- $2.13/hr
- Reviews
- 93% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, Direct X9.0c Compatible Card, 133 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Risk of Rain is an action platformer with roguelike elements. With permanent death as a primary feature, players will have to play their best to get as far as possible. Fight on a mysterious planet with randomly spawning enemies and bosses, either alone or with 3 friends in online co-op.
What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
The lowest price on record is $1.99, set in November 2018. 36 discounts in the 13 years on record. They run about 75 percent off, roughly 8 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 8 weeks.
On value it sits in the top 10 percent of its genre. It is better reviewed than 88 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Downwell ($0.74, scores 88) beats it on value, while it beats Vagante ($14.99, scores 73).
Critics scored it 77. Players sit 16 points higher at 93 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.
Of the 750 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 12 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 66 percent of the 1,853 reviews written there were positive, against 93 percent overall, and those are 9 percent of everything written about it.
HowLongToBeat players log 4.7 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 51, 11 times as much.
The drop-off
73% start to 4% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
25 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
Much as I love this game and think it's excellent, with the release of Risk of Rain Returns I think it's probably better to pick that one up since it fixes a lot of the annoyances that plagued the original release. This version is cheaper and tends to go on sale more often than Returns though, so if money is tight I'd say this is still quite playable and worth your time.
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 (2013) scores 82/100 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/248820/risk-of-rain-2013The 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 16, price as of Sep 24.
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