Risk of Rain 2
BANGER · Roguelike · 2020
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $24.99.
- Length
- 10.8h
- Value
- $2.31/hr
- Reviews
- 94% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, GTX 580 / AMD HD 7870, 4 GB of storage. Windows only.
Escape a chaotic alien planet by fighting through hordes of frenzied monsters – with your friends, or on your own. Combine loot in surprising ways and master each character until you become the havoc you feared upon your first crash landing.
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
June 2024 is where it bottomed out, at $8.24. Its cuts run 50 percent off as a rule. There have been 49 in the 7 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 4 percent on value. It is pricier than 95 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 91 percent. Among the games closest to it, Vellum ($19.99, scores 68) and Risk of Rain (2013) ($9.99, scores 82) both come in lower.
The press gave it 85; the people who bought it give it 94 percent. A 9-point gap in the buyer's favour.
18 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2026 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 74 percent of the 7,738 reviews written there were positive, against 94 percent overall, and those are 3 percent of everything written about it.
HowLongToBeat players log 10.8 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 145, 13 times as much.
It came out 6 years ago and 7.9K were still playing it at the last check.
The drop-off
91% start to 52% finishPeople genuinely stick with this one. Steam global achievements
Players
7,902 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've been playing this game for more than 100 hours, I've transcended matter and literally become a god countless times, but somehow I still haven't seen the risk of raining while playing. At least I got to hear a cool guy with a helmet playing an electric ukulele... and his music was electric.
TL;DR: This game is poorly designed, even if it is well programed and performant. Lots of people will insist that this game is amazing, but that "amazing" thing they're talking about is that 1/50 run where you get a string of ridiculous items in a row, you press one button and the game plays itself. I'm so tired of hitting like a wet noodle for the entire game while getting one shot from behind. Yet another game...
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 2 scores 88/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/632360/risk-of-rain-2The 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 11, price as of Sep 24.
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